need lams help

[AmSquish]

I have a setup that has a laser able to fire, and a laser munitions defense connected to the multipurpose laser, munitions detecting in all directions, but when I try to fire a missile, it literally does nothing. It doesn't move in the slightest. It doesn't fire. What am I doing wrong?

[luxon001]

1. - it wont shoot down your own missles.
2. - LAMS dont make turrets turn
3. - you sure the munition warners are linked to the same mainframe?
4. - laser out of power?

[AmSquish]

1. I understand that, I turned an ai missile cruiser to an enemy faction
2. I know, I have the ai gun controllers
3. Yes, I only have one for testing purposes
4. I'd be extremely surprised, with as large an engine I have.

[luxon001]

Originally posted by AggressiveRock:

1. I understand that, I turned an ai missile cruiser to an enemy faction
2. I know, I have the ai gun controllers
3. Yes, I only have one for testing purposes
4. I'd be extremely surprised, with as large an engine I have.

Its not the engine, you need laser pumps to power the laser.

Munition warners only detect missles with thrusters, not torpedoes, missles less than 5m above water level or stuff with no jets.
Or you placed the transcivers badly.

[Blech]

You need to make sure you have the following:

Multi-purpose laser with at least one Coupler.
Coupler with a number of cavities.
Cavities must have pumps attached.

Multi-purpose laser is the controller, Coupler is sort of a man-in-the-middle, Cavities are energy storage, pumps are energy providers.

You also need a mainframe, and a munition warner attached to that mainframe pointing at the missiles. the LAM itself does not need to be connected to the mainframe.

And the LAM needs to be connected to the multi-purpose laser with either trancievers or laser connectors, it should say something like "Connected to Multi-purpose laser ****"

Note that LAMS do not turn. They engage anyhing in a half-sphere around it. So if you have the point pointing up, it will engange anything that is not below it, as long as it has line of sight.

[AmSquish]

Found problem, I thought you used an actual laser turret for anti-munitions, and then just put the munitions thing on it. I didn't realize that you only needed the munitions defense by itself.
Kind of op... even with it's engine power consumption...