Faulty Sub-surface Displacement Missiles

[REMZilla]

I'm mining for Tritium, LTDs and VOs and using the abrasion blaster for surface deposits and sub-surface displacement missiles for sub-surface deposits. When using the ssdms, I get the target fine, but when the missile begins to drill down, it fails 25 - 50% of the time! WTH am I doing wrong? We only get 16 at time so when I miss it's one thing, but when I hit target and the damn thing just FAILS 50% of the time I. GET. FRUSTRATED! I know I can just whip up another batch of 16 on board, but either give me more capacity or more quality! Am I right, or am I RIGHT?!

[Harrison]

Are you releasing the trigger on one of the blue patches?

[REMZilla]

Oh yes! But the problem is that the missiles fail before even giving me a chance to wait and release. Once the drill deploys, I know to hold the trigger and release when the blue patches approach. The faulty missiles fire to the target. Then they start to drill down and THAT's when the thing fails. The target screen starts to show the orange and blue patches then just disappear with a failing sound effect. It's totally different from a missed target which just pops and no target screen action happens.

[Harrison]

I’ve never had something like that happen for in-game reasons, but it does sound like something is going wrong.

Honestly it sounds like a hardware issue, like the trigger is releasing even though you don’t do anything.

Are you using a mouse? I had a Logitech mouse once with a faulty switch that had a tendency to register a double click about half time the switch was depressed.

[REMZilla]

Hmm. Yes, I'm using a mouse, a Logitech one at that and the battery is reporting fair. I'll replace it and see how that affects the situation. Thanks, Harrison. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Harrison]

I hope it works out.

From what I've found on some hardware forums after the issues with my old mouse, issues with the switches in Logitech mice are fairly common and some people even go so far as to replace them (the switches) on their own rather than deal with logitech support.

[REMZilla]

Originally posted by Harrison:

I hope it works out.

From what I've found on some hardware forums after the issues with my old mouse, issues with the switches in Logitech mice are fairly common and some people even go so far as to replace them (the switches) on their own rather than deal with logitech support.

Yeah, it's not that. I replaced the battery in the mouse and still no joy. When I miss the target, the missile just dies and makes a dead missile sound. When I hit the target, the missile starts drilling and the drill panel displays the graph and the game to time to the blue bars begins. When I hit the target and release the trigger too early, it's the classic drill fail. But sometimes I hit the target, the drill panel displays momentarily then disappears with a foiled missile sound and doesn't have anything to do with holding down the trigger. Still getting that more often than not and I can only figure that it's a role of the die type thing. These damn missiles just aren't reliable more than bout 60% of the time. I've had sub-surface displacement missile "failures" in succession up to 3 and 4 times . . . in - a - row. I did figure out that we have room for 32 missiles but can only create them on board 16 at a time. Still, when you get a spinner, every missile counts and having a series of faulty missiles is frustrating.

[antoca]

Are you sure that you have direct sight of place where a missile must enter ground? That place may be on the other side of the asteroid, or some roughness may prevent you to hit. Thatswhy you fail. Try to get as close as you can.

[REMZilla]

Originally posted by antoca:

Are you sure that you have direct sight of place where a missile must enter ground? That place may be on the other side of the asteroid, or some roughness may prevent you to hit. Thatswhy you fail. Try to get as close as you can.

Yeah, no. I know that the icons of the sub-surface deposits sometimes are blue when they should be grayed out, but when you select them, the deposits appear and you can tell which side of the asteroid the deposit is on. It's not that. Besides, the missile wouldn't start to drill down in that case, just pop. Plus, when I get successful drill events, the asteroid surface changes to a charred/cracked appearance at the SSD site. I can get continuous successful drill ops at that site repeatedly, it's just that, for whatever reason, the missiles will start to fail, on occasion, sometimes repeatedly. That's the problem. If no one else experiences this, then what gives? If others do experience it, is there an aiming component that is involved or is it just the roll of the die as to whether these missiles will perform as advertised?