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Post by zuthal on Oct 24, 2016 6:14:30 GMT
I have seen that issue a few times now... when you have a few dozen missiles in a fleet, and give them all a command at the same time (via the appropriate button in the UI), not all of them seem to obey that command. For example, if I set them from controlled homing to off, a lot of them keep burning. Also, missiles seem inconsistent with the controlled homing command too, with some stopping the burn midway, and others just burning all their fuel in the initial boost. Why is that? Do I need more badges to be able to control my missiles?  |
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Post by thinespree on Oct 24, 2016 7:24:48 GMT
Quick question: What G's are your missiles pulling? as that might be why some aren't stopping there burns
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Post by zuthal on Oct 24, 2016 7:38:08 GMT
They accelerate at twenty-two and a half gravities, but why would that lead to them not obeying an explicit order to stop all burns? (I.e. setting them from "Controlled Homing" to "Cancel")
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Post by thinespree on Oct 24, 2016 9:47:08 GMT
At those speeds the fuel flow is (Depending on if Qswitched models it in here) gravity fed not pump fed
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Post by zuthal on Oct 24, 2016 10:08:56 GMT
I haven't heard anything about it being implemented in the supplementary material, so I doubt it is implemented. And you could anyways still close the valves and stop propellant flow.
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Post by thinespree on Oct 24, 2016 10:14:04 GMT
Aye you could do that. But back onto what you asked at first try lowering the G's the missiles are pulling by a) Lowering number of drives or b) Dropping the speed/size of the turbopumps and then see if they still fail to stop a burn/fail mid burn. (Though this is all coming from someone thats been playing for just a week and has had the same things happen to 30+G missiles)
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Post by zuthal on Oct 24, 2016 13:37:43 GMT
Yeah, I am planning to make further variants of my missiles with smaller engines. However, I cannot currently make the engines smaller, since having a rocket engine with a throat radius smaller than 3 mm leads to a CTD on launch. I also plan on making them non-gimballed, instead using several engines with differential thrust for steering (thus ideally looking to reduce the engine diameter to below 3.33 cm, to keep the 10 cm internal diameter, while having seven engines), which would make it probably a lot more survivable against nukes.
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