was playing in the battlefield system, (the stock one, provided by uber.) and i was finally able to take over the metal planet. however, after building the catalysts, i was unable to use them. after clicking on the use weapon button (or whatever it is) i could not select anything else accept cancel. any ideas? i assume this is not indented behavior? EDIT: it turns out that this issue has nothing to do with moons, but if the metal planet is the first planet in the drop down list on the top right, it cannot be used. (seems to be OS X only.)
You should be able to select a target planet from the planet menu on the top right, you might have to expand the menu to do that, I'm not sure because I always have it open anyway. The menu should show a red circle on the right of each planet that is a valid target, so basically everything except gas giants and the metal planet itself. Was that not showing up ?
the menu was expanded, but i couldn't click on any of the planets. there were no circles of any kind on the screen, apart form the ones showing orbits. (didn't have the patience to finish the game after that, unfortunately.)
Maybe you ran into the bug that crashes the UI on trying to activate chrono-cam? See point 5 in this thread: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/know-issues.65155/ This is how it should work, with video: http://pamatches.com/tutorials/how-to-destroy-planets-with-the-metal-planets-catalyst/
Should definitively work, there was even a bug fixed where the orbiting moon would outrun the metal planet's targeting mechanism.
tested again, doesnt work. it may be more to do with the fact that the metal planet is at the top of the list, which has been giving me problems for the last few patches. (I'm not able to jump to it from the drop down menu.)
That's rather odd. What's you screen resolution by the way? Maybe the height is too small and causes issues?
ok, tested again, it has nothing to do with moons, but if a metal planet is the first planet in the drop down list, it doesn't work.
I just tried to reproduce it and it works just fine. My screen height is the same as yours. Although I have 1600x900 (and Linux). Weird.
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My friend just reported to me that he was controlling a metal planet in a game, blasted a couple other planets, and then the metal planet refused to fire on any more planets. He clicked all the planets in turn and after some time it worked again... when he clicked his own home planet. This kind of thing happens all. the. time. Metal planets and halleys refusing to target planets, for no apparent reason. To do with gimbal locking or orbit calculations maybe? Anyway we should be able to expect this stuff to work every time.
I've had problems getting the Annihilaser firing from the menu selection, but works fine physically clicking on the planet from the System view
Yes, it usually works if you click directly on the planets. The problem is, in systems with a dozen planets it can be extremely hard to tell which is which, and if two planets are so close together that their "click zones" overlap, it can sometimes be impossible to select the correct one.
im not seeing the "click zones" in my case. however, if the metal planet is not the first one on the list, everything works.
and based on how the camera works, i don't think that we are using a polar coordinate system, in which case gimbal locking shouldn't be an issue.
