Orbital Ion Cannon (Space Age Edition)


When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss. NEW +3 technologies: Area Fire and Ion Cannon Mk2

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g Auto targeting not working

28 days ago

So I have 40 Ion Cannons in orbit and they are not firing automatically. I started the map with autotargetting setting of zero reserved Ion Cannons, but have also changed it back to default of 2 to see if that fixes it. I uninstalled all mods except this one and still having the same issue, but this could be caused by the mods I had when I started this game. Auto targeting worked in my prior game, with slightly different mods.

If I load up my old game that it worked in, and sync mods to that game, auto targeting works fine in that game. Is there any command I can run to fix my current game to have auto targeting work? Is there any information I can provide to you to help determine what's going on?

The only new mods I added in my current game are: Roboport charge pads increase based on quality, Shortcuts, Spidertron tiers, productivity research for everyone, advanced asteroid reprocessing, loaders modernized, and Voidcraft. Thus, assuming it is an issue caused by one of those mods being active when I started the game, is that something that can be fixed now, hours later with a command? Is it fixable for future games even?

I love this mod and glad its back working in multiplayer!

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28 days ago
(updated 28 days ago)

In general, automatic target detection works.

I'm just asking to be on the safe side.
What radars do you use?
Have you researched auto targeting?
Have you activated auto targeting?

28 days ago
(updated 28 days ago)

Same radars in both games. Tried using no mods, so vanilla radars. But using Big Brother Radars, it works in the first game and not the 2nd game.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/big-brother

28 days ago

could you provide your savegame?

28 days ago

https://transfer.zip/#9twENfgHJ4XtnZ7IX_oIhaqVYQR5yqAFzqaE88ddWbA,6ad9bbc3-aca1-4d00-be0e-0d6dd12ef6fe,R

Should have both saves, the old one where auto targeting works and the new one where it does not work.

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28 days ago

seems not to work

Wait for your devices to establish a connection. Loading...

i wait since 5 mins

28 days ago

Ok let me find another file transfer method!

28 days ago

Ok this is the link to the one that does not work with auto-targeting.
https://mega.nz/file/D74RkSRb#sf2z6hYPA6mbh0HbWA6c-CGhxnrEHmC4tHiZVi2vbHE

And this is the game where it does work.
https://mega.nz/file/zy5CiCZD#bACqWYY4Y9QRWdeCAgku4DZ52keDIWTIaSeDFxCe9WE

28 days ago
(updated 28 days ago)

FYI I started a brand new game, cheated to spawn in stuff, and the auto targeting works fine when I did not enable or use the Shortcuts mod.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Shortcuts-ick

So the issue is something related to that mod I'm thinking. But disabling that mod and starting my broken game does not allow autotargeting to work.

28 days ago

Map version 2.0.20-3 cannot be loaded because it is higher than the game version (2.0.19-0).
hmm I can not update to 2.0.20
Update failed: Checking update packages failed: File E:/Program Files/Factorio/2.0/2.0/data/../doc-html/prototypes/RailRemnantsPrototype.html has unexpected content

28 days ago

ok, it's finally running

First thing: Ion cannon technology is not researched!
https://prnt.sc/R1Z0YT9rf2Pf

after reseach all works
https://prnt.sc/9q2GKcbCOvFW

27 days ago

Sorry to be so fail, thanks for figuring it out for me!

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