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Like the title says, I just hit 4344 tonight. One of the first things I did was ditch my v4 computer and stick a new v5 in with the IV-level commands. I launch to see how Engine Overload IV works on my engines, and upon use, I get the message that 80% of my components are now disabled, including my booster, weapon, and capacitor. Fun fun fun.

Now, I have a pretty nice power ceiling on my reactor (very near 12000 even though it's UNDER 1400 mass), and I only use about 9800 of it. Reactor and Weapon Overload III never caused this problem, in fact I could use both commands at once, but now I'm getting the message "Low Power" when I first load into a space zone.

I'm sure the answer to this is simple, but I don't know it as I just started using droid commands at 4343 (I'm now 4344), which makes me a relative newbie to them. I only have one weapon (an Adv Blaster - green, of course) in my Advanced unless I know I'm going up against big game, in which case I load an Adv Ion Cannon that I have in a separate weapon group, so we're not talking about an enormous stretch power-wise.

So, what's the deal here? The Devs, in their infinite wisdom, tell you what you need to know to program the droid commands INTO the computer, but damned if they don't tell you what to do when this "disabled" crap happens.

Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 11-09-2004 06:22 AM

BUMP

BUMP!

^

Find a neutral pilot and swap your overloads for thier reactor overload *grin*

If that doesnt do it then you will have to get a weee bit more reactor

You may get an issue where you can't issue droid commands due to the droid interface being disabled - try uninstalling the droid interface and re-launching then land and re-install it, I also was able to recover by issueing the /ethrust command which does NOT stack with engine overload as that would just be insane. I think my best speed in Beta was well over 2k LOL

Remember to run reactor overload first then weapon and engine.

actually the level 4 programs use too much reactor power as far as I know.

I have only one reactor that allows me to use engine overload 4, as far as I don't use weapons overload 4 and that's a 30k energy generation rate/34k mass reactor. otherwise I use engine overload 3.


and this is with reactor overload 4 on top of it.

I guess I'll be reverting to the Level III programs then. They worked just fine, and in tandem, too!

Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 11-09-2004 07:52 AM