LaserTower ineffective vs. Trader ship OOS?

[ezra-r]

knowing certain argon ships like to attack space fuel factories I placed my space fuel complex out of the ecliptic in Hatikvas Faith with 2 laser towers guarding it for extra protection. One a bit separate from the other to cover more area.

I received the emergency notice that one of my factories was under attack.

When I checked there was one of those "red" Duke Transporters attacking and being attacked by my LaserTower , to my surprise the lasertower shields were going down, sustaining and going down, while the duke transporter shields were untouched for as long as I was looking.

I was really scared when I saw an Argon Cerberus going behind the transporter and directed to my complex thinking "oh no, they will attack it in a pirate sector too?" but then they just killed the duke transporter and went back for their own path..

I was relieved but that left me with the question.. are lasertorwers usefull against anything OOS?

[BigBANGtheory]

Was the towers friend or foe settings correct for your needs? I have noticed that some of my player owned objects have not inherited my global f-or-f settings.

[ezra-r]

didnt check it, will do next time, but I thought they turn hostile automatically when attacked.

[Kapakio]

didnt check it, will do next time, but I thought they turn hostile automatically when attacked.

Only if you have show as enemy if im enemy to him flag active.

[ezra-r]

didnt check it, will do next time, but I thought they turn hostile automatically when attacked.

Only if you have show as enemy if im enemy to him flag active.

that's always active by default and I didnt change it.

[Carlo the Curious]

I was relieved but that left me with the question.. are lasertorwers usefull against anything OOS?

I imagine it's the same issue as other problems people are experiencing with OOS combat.

But no anyway - vanilla lasertowers kinda suck OOS .

[Sandalpocalypse]

Lasertowers use Plasma Beam Cannons, a capital-grade weapon. It's possible they are suffering from whatever malady is affecting all capital-grade weapons OOS at the moment.

It sounds like they attacked the Duke's transporter as it went to buy Space Fuel. Not a great thing in any case. I wonder if they will still defend a station if they are homebased to it and have 'show as hostile if hostile to me' turned off.