n00b question -- freagle lasers not working

[Jacobsen]

So, I've been playing a bit since the beta but mostly in the tutorials. Never bought or equipped a ship before, done one or two missions in my free Sidewinder. Logged on to the proper game this evening and looked at the shipyard in the station I was in and discovered I had an Eagle waiting for me at another station. Odd, because I thought that was only for Kickstarter backers -- but I guess it was for all beta testers.

Jumped to the system where it was, tried a couple of stations (for some reason the shipyard wouldn't tell me which one it was at) and eventually found it. It had two lasers, and I had a bit of cash so I added a gimballed multicannon. Lasers underneath, cannon on top.

Launched, got out of the no-fire zone, and tried shooting. Boom, out of power, running out of oxygen. Worked out I needed a better power plant, frantically scrabbled to find the settings on the right-hand panel (which I'd never used before) and got the weapons offline so that I could fly again. Back to the station, docked, did a mission in the Sidewinder to get a few new credits, upgraded the power plant on the Eagle to a class D. Now the shipyard display says that I have 7.something worth of power available, and 6.4something when everything's deployed. Looks good.

Launched again, cleared the no-fire. Fiddled with the fire groups until I'd got one column (one group, right?) with both lasers with (1) next to them (primary fire button?) and the cannon with (2) next to it.

Pressed the primary fire button. Nothing. Second fire button; multicannon fires (with a very short lag). Primary fire -- nothing again.

I think I may have got one laser to fire once. But never again. No warnings about power drain or anything.

How can I track down what I've got wrong? Any help much appreciated!

 

[Kadaeux]

So, I've been playing a bit since the beta but mostly in the tutorials. Never bought or equipped a ship before, done one or two missions in my free Sidewinder. Logged on to the proper game this evening and looked at the shipyard in the station I was in and discovered I had an Eagle waiting for me at another station. Odd, because I thought that was only for Kickstarter backers -- but I guess it was for all beta testers.

Jumped to the system where it was, tried a couple of stations (for some reason the shipyard wouldn't tell me which one it was at) and eventually found it. It had two lasers, and I had a bit of cash so I added a gimballed multicannon. Lasers underneath, cannon on top.

Launched, got out of the no-fire zone, and tried shooting. Boom, out of power, running out of oxygen. Worked out I needed a better power plant, frantically scrabbled to find the settings on the right-hand panel (which I'd never used before) and got the weapons offline so that I could fly again. Back to the station, docked, did a mission in the Sidewinder to get a few new credits, upgraded the power plant on the Eagle to a class D. Now the shipyard display says that I have 7.something worth of power available, and 6.4something when everything's deployed. Looks good.

Launched again, cleared the no-fire. Fiddled with the fire groups until I'd got one column (one group, right?) with both lasers with (1) next to them (primary fire button?) and the cannon with (2) next to it.

Pressed the primary fire button. Nothing. Second fire button; multicannon fires (with a very short lag). Primary fire -- nothing again.

I think I may have got one laser to fire once. But never again. No warnings about power drain or anything.

How can I track down what I've got wrong? Any help much appreciated!

It sounds like you haven't turned your weapons back on in the right hand panel.

They don't automatically repower when you changed your powerplant, you need to re-engage them manually.

(OH, and the slight 'lag' on the Multicannon is the barrels spinning up to firing speed)

 

[fh137]

Another couple things I've learned is that the limitation of the firing-arc of the weapon will keep it from firing, even when you can't see any earthly reason it's not shooting.

 

[Heater]

Sounds like you do not have enough power for them,

Check the modules on the left side and look at the power draw, Not enough power = systems will shutdown, which sounds like what is going on,

Tip: the first thing you want to upgrade is the Power plant / power Distribution without this you are dead in the water.

 

[Kolato]

Try to untarget the station if it is targeted.
It will stop you from shooting if your target is out of the fire range of the lasers.

 

[SteveMallam]

Adding a multi cannon will cause an Eagle to run out of power with its default power plant.

Th good news is you don't NEED an improved power plant to fix this. If you look at the modules in your right-hand panel you can decrease the priority of modules you won't need at the same time as the weapons: e.g. Cargo hatch and FSD.

That will make them go offline instead of the weapons / life support. When you stow the weapons, the FSD etc. will come back on.

 

[gamecat]

Make sure your POWER DISTRIBUTION is set to WEP! This is a classic noob mistake. You have. 3 settings Sys ( Shields and Jump) ENG ( Speed and Turning) and WEP ( Weapons ) put weapons in full settings (arrow right 3 times).

Almost certain you don't need to do anything more complex.


Good luck.