Restocking weapons

arbuthnot · Post by **arbuthnot** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:59 pm

Shot off 4 Friend or Foe missiles from my Derivative tonight. Back at base I was unable to purchase available replacements, but could buy Dumbfires. Having bought 1 to replace an FoF, I was then able to buy an FoF, but only to fit in 1 of the 3 remaining placements.
I thought it a little odd when first fitting out that certain missiles and guns were unavailable to me, even tho' the placements are rated as Medium.
Is this a bug or a feature?
Running on Mac PowerPC G4 Dual core 1MHz Os 10.3.9.

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:01 am

That does indeed appear to be flacky not sure on the cause and it may be different the next time you restock.

Enjoy the Choice

Post by **jackS** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:45 am

Hmm. Could be something related to mount point volume values.

arbuthnot · Post by **arbuthnot** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:21 pm

loki1950 wrote:That does indeed appear to be flacky not sure on the cause and it may be different the next time you restock.

Alas, possibly. If it helps:
Derivative, stock model
Mountpoints 5-8 originally stocked with FoF missiles
Mountpoints 5-6 now hold 2 Dumbfires
FoF for sale (white highlight) but can't be positioned in mountpoints 7-8, so filled with Heatseekers.
In the interests of science, I went out and shot off the lot.
Come back in and all mountpoints can now be filled with FoF again.
Odd.
Keep it up - your excellent work will be remembered.

cap601 · Post by **cap601** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:02 am

I have had this problem as well. When you empty a missile pylon you cannot reload it with the same type of missile without first purchasing a different type. I can't recall when I first came across it but I believe it's been around for a while.

El Bobbo · Post by **El Bobbo** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:06 pm

On a similar note, I put 4 ion bursters on a llama in 0.5.0. I was only able to buy ammo refills for the ones in slots 1 and 2 (which wasn't really a big deal, since it would take a looong time to use up the initial 10,000 rounds of ammo per gun).

bgaskey · Post by **bgaskey** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:11 pm

I have also seem both of these problems. I think the exact same thing happened to me with a llama and ion bursters

Coragem · Post by **Coragem** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:04 pm

I know this probably not the thread for this but...

Talking about ammo rack sizes.

Getting out of ammo in a fire fight should be a actual possibility with at least some guns.

10,000 ammo for ion busters is just too much... maybe 1000 was a more resonable ammount so it really has to be refilled from time to time.

Not just ion buster maybe other guns could be changed too.

Any ideas on this issue?