[origin]

How do you link the primary weapon banks to shoot at the same time?

[Dragon]

It was explained in main FS2 (and FS1) training, press "," or "." key twice.
Or any keys you assigned to cycling primaries.

[Commander Zane]

*Headdesk*

Someone doesn't play tutorial missions.

[origin]

My bad - I did not give enough information...

I have a made a fighter with 2 primaries that has 2 guns per primary for a fred designed mission and I want that ship to be able to shoot both of its primaries at once.  It is not the ship that I am flying - it's the bad guys.  I can only get it to shoot one set of primaries at a time - I assume there is some flag or something to do this but I have not been able to find it.

Thanks

[Akalabeth Angel]

I would assume that has more to do with the AI behavior than anything else. Someone more familiar with the code may know what's up.

[The E]

Yep, that's something defined by the AI behaviour. The AI class may be too low, or the weapons energy usage may be too high for the AI to consider linking weapons a good choice.

[origin]

Really?  Hm... pretty smart AI - I make adjustments and see.

[Stormkeeper]

You know, if you don't finish training you don't get your wings? I played through FS2 once without getting my wings.

[Dragon]

Stormkeeper, read the whole thread before posting.
He wants to force linked primaries on AI ships.

[origin]

Yep, that's something defined by the AI behaviour. The AI class may be too low, or the weapons energy usage may be too high for the AI to consider linking weapons a good choice.

I lowered the power consumption for both weapons to just about nothing (0.1) and gradually increased the AI class all the way to General and still no luck - only one bank at a time will fire.  By switch the order of the default primaries between the 2 weapons in the ships.tbm, I am sure that both banks are operational but they just won't fire together.

Any ideas?

[chief1983]

You should be looking at editing the ai_profiles.tbl.  Depending on the depth of your mod, you may want to make a new profile, and have your missions use that, or you may want to write a tbm and just modify the existing FS2_RETAIL profile.  Either way, you probably want to edit:

$AI Always Links Energy Weapons:
FS2 Open, 3.6.10 or earlier:

    * AI ships will link energy primaries if energy levels are greater than these percents.
    * Syntax: Float list
          o Default: 100, 80, 60, 40, 20


$AI Maybe Links Energy Weapons:
FS2 Open, 3.6.10 or earlier:

    * Defines the same as $AI Always Links Energy Weapons: but in situations when its hull is below 33 % of maximum hitpoints.
    * Syntax: Float list
          o Default: 90, 60, 40, 20, 10

Granted, it sounds like your ships should have already been linking up at least some of the time since they should be at full weapon energy, do you have the game on a higher difficulty as well?  Otherwise they will likely not link up weapons very often.

[origin]

I have been very bad and taken a short cut which is bitting me in the butt....
I like the sounds and of effect of terrians so I have simply been putting terrian as the species for my bad guys and then made them hostile. 

Clearly I should make a new species in a tbm and customize them how I want.  I seem to recall when I tried to do this before I ran into some problem, so took the easy way which has clearly lead me to the dark side.

Thanks for all of the input guys - this should be a relatively (i hope) easy fix and will make the mod more robust to boot.

[General Battuta]

Wait, does species actually matter at all here?

[The E]

Nope. This is purely an AI matter, species-defs.tbl won't do anything here.

[Droid803]

It's AI Profiles not species defs.
Changing the species defs won't do anything.
Perhaps he read it wrong.

[chief1983]

Yeah there shouldn't even be anything wrong with hostile terrans.  It's done all the time in retail with the NTF, they should have no problem linking weapons against you.

[Stormkeeper]

Actually, I can't remember the last time I remembered AIs linking weapons against me. My wingmen do it most of the time, but hostile AI doesn't seem to.

[chief1983]

Then there might be a bug at play here.

[Stormkeeper]

Is there anyway to test this?

[Commander Zane]

I usually see enemies using all their primary hardpoints, especially Seraphims.