Making 90 ton fighters causes Range Check Error in combat...

[rdouglass]

Are your fighters loaded up from a "saved empire"?? It sounds like it may be - you mentioned it does not happen when you use organic. Are you both organic and crystal tech in your game?? I know this happens to me when I load a saved empire and I try to even look at a Weapons Platform, Fighter or Sat that has tech I cant research (or have not yet researched). If this is the case, try recreating your Fighter designs from scratch each game...

[Trancejeremy]

Upon further experimentation, it seems to happen when there is too many Shard III Cannons in a stack.

I went back to the completely original files, and made a regular large fighter (25 tons) with 3 shard cannons.

I didn't have any problems, until I made a stack of 30 of them.

Sure enough, I get the range check error again.

But it's very very rare to have that many shard cannons in one fighter stack in a normal game. It's a lot easier with my large fighter mod...

[Trancejeremy]

I never use saved empires, because it's a nightmare to navigate through the old designs. So that's not it.

And it's only when fighters target a ship, not the other way around. So I'm not sure what the trouble is. It's very weird.

I think I'll end up just altering the data file and getting rid of 'skips armor' for the shard cannons, and seeing if that does it....

[Trancejeremy]

Yup, when I change the damage type of the small shard cannon to 'normal' from 'skip armor' I no longer get the range error.

[Instar]

Send it all to MM - saved games, mods, empire files
They will fix it!

[Lord Felix]

I had exactly the same problem with big stacks of Null Space III weapons, as someone speculated about in this thread. It has nothing to do with the extra-big fighters per se. Some weapons are just SO good, the game freaks out when you fire them in big volleys.