Miner Ship with Iron Hammers not working

[=RedDwarf=]

I am having some trouble with a new ship that I purchased. It is the DU5-7Y "Hegemon" Asteroid Miner. It was listed as a Miner when it was purchased. I had intended to purchase a Bounty Hunter Gunship but changed my mind when I saw this. That left me with the ship on the wrong character than I had wanted.

Onto the actual problem. I have purchased a few weapons in order to defend myself. I do not wish to recruit others with fighters to assist. Finding weapons that are usable has proved very difficult so far. They all have a very low refire rate. The best that I have found is the Iron Hammer and other similar weapons with the same specs. I purchased 2 of the Iron Hammers and left the station.

The Iron Hammers will not fire! Either when grouped or singularly using their key. I have been in and out of a few stations with the same result. I have unmounted them left the station and then re-entered and re-mounted them with the same result.

Do the Iron Hammers work on this ship? Why am I have these problems?

[Jayce]

It's possible that they're on rear-facing hardpoints. Try mounting more of them and see if they work. You really only need 2-4 mining turrets.

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[=RedDwarf=]

From what I could see there is only one rear facing turret. I did have a Transport weapon on there and it did not work well. I have moved the Iron Hammers to different mountings with no effect.

I did read somewhere about there being a bug with the grouping and weapons. It was something to do with entering a station with the grouping set to anything other than Group 1. I vaguely recall, but could be mistaken, that weapons could be disabled. I do not know where I saw that or what it was referring to specifically. I am wondering whether that might have something to do with it. Any ideas on that?

[evanz]

Ahh the hedge, good old unreliable self-un-defendable mining ship

Its pants for defending yourself with, mining arrays go on slots 1-4, but due to the positioning of the other turret slots, you will not hit a thing trying to defend yourself, it’s been tested and tried for years and has never worked for a lone miner in trying to defend itself

Best you can hope for is to just run and escape, with full bats and bots, and hope you can dock in the trade lanes, or a nearby base

The hedge is a magnet attraction for bad guys, never fly alone, find a group or people that can escort and protect you, otherwise you will always lose out

[=RedDwarf=]

It is a POS especially for manoeuvrability and even getting into the jump gates where it frequently gets stuck.

I might of been incorrect in my last post, it does appear to have two rear facing turrets.

The Iron Hammers are now working but I have no idea why?????? I did switch characters by mistake and when I returned with the one with the problems they did work okay. But as you say the weapons are really terrible. With the manoeuvrability of an aircraft carrier it is absolutely awful piloting it. If you like insurmountable challenges then this is your thing.

I was using an Armoured Transport which was much better. That was usable, this is not. Still $15,000,000 credits for free to aquire helium it is profitable and worth persisting with because the profit should build up fairly quickly.

[Jayce]

It's also possible you had your weapon groups borked. Either way, if it's working, it's working.

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[=RedDwarf=]

It's also possible you had your weapon groups borked. Either way, if it's working, it's working.

The other weapons all worked okay, both in groups and alone with the weapon key on it's own. Iron Hammer would not work in any way that I tried.

The weapon grouping seems very buggy IMO. Assigning weapon group is very hit and miss. It often assigns multiple groups to the same set of weapons. It does not work very well in my experience.