My Ships won't fire their missiles

[kcferret]

Ok, guess I am a total noob. When i go into tactical combat my ships never fire their missiles while the AIs can. Am I missing a piece of technology or what? I have click on the missiles on my ship and nothing happens and I have double clicked on the enemy ships and nothing happens. All other weapons and bombs work fine. ANy help would be appreciated thanks

[CaptSpoogy]

Just make sure that the missile picture is highlighted in blue/cyan - I think you might be deselecting the missiles when you click on them. Also make sure they have been reloaded - there is small red hash marks that appear in the weapon pictures when they are reloading.

If they're highlighted than you just move the cursor over the enemy ships and click once - all your weapons should fire if they are in range.

Good Luck.

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[kcferret]

thats what I thought to. I move my ship. Click on the enemy sh9i9p and fire.....no missiles. All I fire is my ranged weapons and my bombs will go as well if i am near a planet. i have yet to see my misilles fire on any of my ships. I am using capitla misilles btw

[capnq]

I doubt this is what's causing the problem, but missles can't target satellites and fighters.

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[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by kcferret:
Ok, guess I am a total noob. When i go into tactical combat my ships never fire their missiles while the AIs can. Am I missing a piece of technology or what? I have click on the missiles on my ship and nothing happens and I have double clicked on the enemy ships and nothing happens. All other weapons and bombs work fine. ANy help would be appreciated thanks

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You have to make sure you've selected the right ship, of course. Your missiles are appearing in the weapon panel at the upper right? Then you have to make sure your pointer has selected the enemy ship. Mouse pointers can be deceptive. Try clicking a little bit "below" the ship to account for the offset of the mouse pointer.

Has the range/damage been modified on these missiles? If you've change them to do 0 damage at range 1 as some people do (minimum range) then I think they won't fire.

Have you modified the data files in any other way? You could have discovered a bug.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 10 June 2001).]

[mottlee]

What level of CM are you at if only 1 or 2 then you need to get in close

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