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slave138 wrote:

I don't know how much more I need to get all of these to work properly - I don't think it's much because I can run Cap and Engine OL 4 with Weapons OL 3 and not have any problems.

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The energy requirements betweena level 3 program and a level 4 program are huge. Engine Overload 3 apparently uses 3.33 times as much energy as normal, whereas Engine Overload 4 uses 10 times as much energy as normal. I believe the Weapon Overloads are supposed to work the same way, however Weapon Overload 3 is bugged and seems to currently use less energy and not more. Some have speculated that some of the code for Weapon Tuning 3 got attached to Weapon Overload 3 by mistake, and thus we're getting the benefit of 30% extra damage, but not getting the 333% increase in Reactor Energy Drain and capacitor energy usage that we're supposed to also get. Weapon Overload 2 and 4 seem to work right, though. Even with an uber reactor, getting Weapon Overload 4 to run on a Rihk is going to bevery hard. And even if you have enough reactor energy to pull it off, even the best capacitor running Cap Overload 4 is going to only give you a few seconds of fire time with three guns drawing 10 times as much capacitor energy as normal. However, that all being said, once Weapon Overload 3 gets fixed, those of us with looted uber reactors will probably still be able to run it onour large multi-gun ships.