Reported in 1.9.5 before (
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11298.msg133819#msg133819), and reproduced in 1.10.0.
4 bugs can be reproduced by the attached DB:
- Beam weapons do not automatically engage incoming missiles when in area PD mode
- Beam weapons can fire multiple within the same 5s tick under Area PD mode if a salvo is manually targeted and BFC is ordered to open fire
- Probably as a result of the above bug, beam weapon power consumption is weird. They do not fire every tick when they should.
- When Area PD hits targets, the energy impacts shown on the tactical map are on the firing fleet, rather than the target missiles.
The function number - N/A
The complete error text - N/A
The window affected - N/A
What you were doing at the time -testing
Conventional or TN start - TN
Random or Real Stars - Real
Is your decimal separator a comma? - No
Is the bug is easy to reproduce, intermittent or a one-off? - Easy
If this is a long campaign - say 75 years or longer - N/A
This is our (unfortunate) test subject. Note that, all its beam weapon has a ROF of 5 and the power plant has enough power for all of them.
Test class Destroyer 12 000 tons 434 Crew 6 842.9 BP TCS 240 TH 4 800 EM 0
20000 km/s Armour 5-46 Shields 0-0 HTK 80 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 10 PPV 46
Maint Life 2.63 Years MSP 3 564 AFR 115% IFR 1.6% 1YR 729 5YR 10 933 Max Repair 1200 MSP
Captain Control Rating 2 BRG CIC
Intended Deployment Time: 24 months Morale Check Required
Inertial Fusion Drive EP2400.00 (2) Power 4800 Fuel Use 30.81% Signature 2400 Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 764 000 Litres Range 37.2 billion km (21 days at full power)
20cm C10 Far X-Ray Laser (2) Range 600 000km TS: 20 000 km/s Power 10-10 RM 80 000 km ROF 5
20cm Railgun V80/C12 (2x4) Range 320 000km TS: 20 000 km/s Power 12-12 RM 80 000 km ROF 5
Particle Beam-2 (4) Range 500 000km TS: 20 000 km/s Power 5-5 ROF 5
Beam Fire Control R600-TS40000 (1) Max Range: 600 000 km TS: 40 000 km/s 98 97 95 93 92 90 88 87 85 83
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor R43 (2) Total Power Output 86.4 Exp 5%
Active Search Sensor AS78-R1 (1) GPS 600 Range 78.2m km MCR 7m km Resolution 1
ECCM-6 (1) ECM 60
In the attached DB, the scenario has been set up. 15 salvos of missiles are detected by this ship, belonging to the Martian Republic. Advance the time a bit so the salvos are within its PD fire range, and reverse its course (towards Mars). The ship and missiles have the same speed, so once this step is done, they will remain in range.
The BFC for this ship has been set up for area PD. However, it does not auto fire as seen in the first attached picture.
If a salvo is manually targeted, and the BFC is ordered to open fire, the BFC fires all weapons at each salvo once in the same tick, as seen in the second attached picture.
After this, if time is advanced furthermore, it can be observed that not all weapons will fire in the following ticks. In my test, the particle beams fired 4 ticks after the initial salvo. This is shown in the 3rd attached picture.
And finally, in the above 2 screenshots, the energy contacts are drawn on the fleet itself rather than the missile salvos.
The DB is attached.