Any reason why opening the doors doesnt work...

[TheLastLine]

for putting out fires? I had a battle with some mantis and the battle kicked my ass, had a fire in 2 spots on the ship, one of which was the medbay. The team was getting battered, so I figured to just move them and open up the doors. And the fire spread uncontrollably (Despite no oxygen) and killed off 2 of my crew and the rest were too beaten to survive getting the medbay fixed so they could heal so I just suicided them. That's some magical fire!

[Red Spot]

Your doors are also a system on your ship, so they can also be damaged and disabled.
Thats probably what happened to you, and as you've noticed, at the wrong time it can hurt quite a bit :)

[hghwolf]

Originally posted by Red Spot:

Your doors are also a system on your ship, so they can also be damaged and disabled.
Thats probably what happened to you, and as you've noticed, at the wrong time it can hurt quite a bit :)

From what I gather from the OP his doors did open, but the fire didn`t asphyxiate. It does take a little while for the oxygen to drain and even then fire can burn for a few seconds. I assume he just got really unlucky.

[Arvis_Jaggamar]

Once I waited a little too long to expose the burning sections to vacuum (two fires in a two-tile hallway with fully upgraded blast doors, figured they would extinguish themselves from lack of oxygen) and the fire spread even after I opened the doors. But then after a few seconds, it stopped spreading and eventually died out like all others.

[Cryten]

For fires to go out the oxygen must be drained in its section completely. Also if it spreads to a room with more oxygen in the mean time during the drain it will continue to spread. Normal doors do not impeded fire spread at all.

[Cougarific]

I actually shut the oxygen off completely (de-power it) when I open the doors to increase the speed at which the O2 drains.

If you had the O2 still running - or worse - as I often upgrade it to two bars just to decrease the boredom of waiting for it to replenish - if you have it upgraded AND running, the oxygen can be very slow to leave the ship - in some cases (Breach weapons) the air leaving and air coming in will balance - so clearly it is powerful enough to keep those fires burning longer - even with the doors all open - than if you had shut it all the way off.

There's also a physics aspect to it - the fire will continue to spread TOWARD the open airlock as long as the air is still draining away. Picture it being sucked toward the vacuum along with everything else.

[Owner of Bad Food Restaurants]

did they assrape ur door control room? if they did then this is completely normal and u shoulda repaired the door syste as quickly as possible