Troubles with turrets

posted on July 9th, 2009, 8:34 am

Hi.
I have a problem with turrets in FO.
So far I've tried Federation, Romulan and Klingon turrets only. The problem is that sometimes they take more space then they should. For example, Federation platform requires 4 "squares" to be build on. However, sometimes it takes up to 6 or even 9 "squares". And this is much much worse with Romulan disruptors. I like it when my defences look orderly and this just makes them look bad. Sometimes it helps to abort construction and start again, but a fix would be appreciated.

Another problem: this time with Klingon heavy weapons platforms. I've noticed that when I build more of them (like 10+), some of them just won't fire... I have to help them and manually target enemies. And to make it even weirder, after a while they start firing again... (they were not disabled by any special ability)

posted on July 9th, 2009, 8:40 am

the build "blocks" are handled by armada. i am afraid that changing anything on that code breaks a lot of other stuff especially with the AI... :/

i'll put up a todo for the klingon turrets. thanks for reporting

posted on July 9th, 2009, 11:19 pm

I've noticed that the space that turrets take up occasionaly reduces to be tighter to the structure. Not sure why it does it, and it seems pretty random.

posted on July 9th, 2009, 11:23 pm

It's because theres a virtual "grid" over the map which stations remove from when their built. If you build it straddling grid lines then it has no choice but to take up more space.