I have a defense station in Windfall III being attacked by 2 Vig fighters and not doing anything about it in spite of its 55 Boson M and 98 Boson L turrets being set to attack all enemies and armed.
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Defense station not defending itself - Explained
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AkrionXxarr
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Defense station not defending itself - Explained
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Alan Phipps
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Re: Defense station not defending itself
I loaded the save and the station was doing no damage to the VIG fighters as you say.
Boson lance turrets are very slow turning and slow firing and probably struggle to keep track on close crossing small agile fighters. They are more for use with distant or slow/static and predictable targets. If a turret weapon cannot get a good firing solution likely to cause damage to the target then they don't even fire (a bit like plasma turrets often not engaging small fast agile targets). This limitation is probably taken some account of even in OOS/low attention where turrets are played notionally.
I changed the turrets on your completed station defence modules from boson lance to a mix of beam and pulse and as soon as the weapon changeover was completed the two VIG fighters were quickly evaporated. I hope that helps.
Boson lance turrets are very slow turning and slow firing and probably struggle to keep track on close crossing small agile fighters. They are more for use with distant or slow/static and predictable targets. If a turret weapon cannot get a good firing solution likely to cause damage to the target then they don't even fire (a bit like plasma turrets often not engaging small fast agile targets). This limitation is probably taken some account of even in OOS/low attention where turrets are played notionally.
I changed the turrets on your completed station defence modules from boson lance to a mix of beam and pulse and as soon as the weapon changeover was completed the two VIG fighters were quickly evaporated. I hope that helps.
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AkrionXxarr
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Re: Defense station not defending itself
That's interesting because Boson have regularly proven to be some of the most reliable anti-fighter turrets I've experimented with since they spend most of their time flying away or towards you rather then orbiting you (not to mention the range & projectile speed just make them better carrier turrets). Well thanks for pointing that out! I didn't think it would be that significant of a difference OOS. I'll swap around the turrets.
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Alan Phipps
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Re: Defense station not defending itself
Of course your boson turrets might have a new bug in 9.00 ...
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deathdealer379
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Re: Defense station not defending itself - Explained
Yeah I am having the exact same issue with Boson Lance turrets. They work as expected on my ships, tracking and firing on the enemy small ships with some decent accuracy. But on stations, they just act as if they are disarmed. They are not even "activating" let alone rotating when the enemy is in front of them. On the other hand, I run a few suicidal runs on some split stations and for the AI the turrets were completly functional.
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Alan Phipps
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Re: Defense station not defending itself - Explained
@ deathdealer379: Unfortunately 'me too' posts unsupported by a link to a related vanilla save showing the issue don't help the devs to investigate or test fixes. That's why the Tech Sp rules discourage them.
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