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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
Ok, i hear a lot about how firing all your weapons at once drains your power, and i've watched the 4 stat indicators for my power allocation and nothing changes during my firing sequences, not even slightly.

Am i looking in the right place for power consumption or is there another section? II think emergency power has it's own finite resource that's not 1 of the 4 listed, and i'd love to know where i can get info on that too.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Only beam weapons and turrets consume, not cannons.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    You have to change the view settings for your power meter. There is a little button to the right of your power settings. Click it and change the view to setting two or three.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    DarKcS wrote: »
    Only beam weapons and turrets consume, not cannons.

    All energy weapons consume energy, even cannons. The main difference there is that cannons have a shared 1 second cool down, and fire for 2 seconds while recharging for 1, so you're not able to fire them in the large numbers that you can with beams. The net result is that if you're only using cannons, the most your weapon energy should dip is by 10 points.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    What abotu emergency power though? it seems if you have multiple engineering powers that use emergency power, even though they dont have a shared cooldown, it seems that if you activate one power too soon to the other, nothing happens no the second power.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    count23 wrote: »
    What abotu emergency power though? it seems if you have multiple engineering powers that use emergency power, even though they dont have a shared cooldown, it seems that if you activate one power too soon to the other, nothing happens no the second power.
    All the 'Emergency Power to <system>' abilities have a shared 20 second cooldown.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Pity it's not like the torpedo cooldown where it disable the other ability till the cooldown is finished.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    count23 wrote: »
    Pity it's not like the torpedo cooldown where it disable the other ability till the cooldown is finished.

    Erm, it is, at least for me. When I activate, for example, Emergency Power to Shields, I can't activate any other Emergency Power to <system> ability for 20 seconds. That's how a shared cooldown works.

    If you can activate one during this time, I can only assume it's either a bug or a lag issue.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    BigBadB wrote:
    Erm, it is, at least for me. When I activate, for example, Emergency Power to Shields, I can't activate any other Emergency Power to <system> ability for 20 seconds. That's how a shared cooldown works.

    If you can activate one during this time, I can only assume it's either a bug or a lag issue.

    When I activate emergency power to shields, i can still activate "emergency power to structural integrity" within 20 seconds, it starts a "recharge" for the EP to SI ability, but it doesnt actually heal teh hull like it's supposed to.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    count23 wrote: »
    When I activate emergency power to shields, i can still activate "emergency power to structural integrity" within 20 seconds, it starts a "recharge" for the EP to SI ability, but it doesnt actually heal teh hull like it's supposed to.

    Errm - IS there an "Emergency power to structural integrity" skill? The one I've got is AUXILIARY power to structural integrity ... i.e. on a different cooldown.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    count23 wrote: »
    Ok, i hear a lot about how firing all your weapons at once drains your power, and i've watched the 4 stat indicators for my power allocation and nothing changes during my firing sequences, not even slightly.

    Am i looking in the right place for power consumption or is there another section? II think emergency power has it's own finite resource that's not 1 of the 4 listed, and i'd love to know where i can get info on that too.

    You have to fire 4 weapons simultaniously before you can see your weapons power decrease. The starter ship and the T2 ships rarely if ever cause your weapons power to dip. When you get into a ship that actually has more than 4 weapons slots then you will have this issue of running out of power for your weapons.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    LawLessOne wrote: »
    You have to fire 4 weapons simultaniously before you can see your weapons power decrease. The starter ship and the T2 ships rarely if ever cause your weapons power to dip. When you get into a ship that actually has more than 4 weapons slots then you will have this issue of running out of power for your weapons.

    Actually even a T1 ship will draw Weapon power to 90 (at times) when firing a broadside. Base recovery rate is enough for the Weapon power to recovery to full during the firing cycle of 2 energy weapons. When you have 3 or more energy weapons, you start drawing down power faster than it will recovery. That's when you need to have EPS Flow Regulator engineering consoles.
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