Reticle question

Krash

Krash
I got these new APAs on my Conda and I'm trying to understand the reticle situation. 3 class 3 APAs that fire at the same speed and form a triangle formation, however the reticles are lined up in a row and it seems I always aim for the furthest one from the target? What are the other 2 reticles for?

Thanks
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
It's very important when engineering Plasma accelerators and cannons to pay attention to projectile speed. Different projectile speeds mean that the lead distance of your weapons will vary and you'll never be able to hit with all three. Simply put - if one of your PAs has slower projectile speed, it will take it longer to reach the target and therefore it's gonna need a bigger lead.
This isn't a problem with gimballed weapons as they can take the lead they need individually, but with fixed weapons you HAVE TO have all projectile speeds matched if you want to use them together.
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
Florenus said:
Turn off all your weapons in modules tab and turn them on one by one.
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Easier perhaps to put your APA's in a separate fire group.

The triangle formation of dots shows you the firing position of your fixed APA's and that is how the shot comes out of the barrels. The floating leading reticule is where you place the triangle formation in order to have a chance of hitting the current target when you pull the trigger.

You've already found out that this is not quite the whole story, but you'll get used to i!!

Comments re shot speed (above) - very important, especially at longer ranges.
 
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Krash

Krash
You guys gave me some ideas so I studied the video objectively and I think I figured it out. All 3 APA's are 875m/s exactly. All 3 hit at the same time in the triangle pattern when I use the further reticle (hollow circle). The other hollow circles are closer to the target and must be for the gimbal multis which run at 1600m/s.
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
Krash said:
You guys gave me some ideas so I studied the video objectively and I think I figured it out. All 3 APA's are 875m/s exactly. All 3 hit at the same time in the triangle pattern when I use the further reticle (hollow circle). The other hollow circles are closer to the target and must be for the gimbal multis which run at 1600m/s.
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That.

Yes, It's easy to tell the fixed from the gimablled reticules because the gimballed ones are all jiggly.
 
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