The burst time of the damage beam/salvage beam/... all seem to suffer from the same issue.
When logic activates the computer it always fires a 2.5-3 second long burst, no matter what burst time that computer should have.
I tested this out on damage beam (1 second burst time), damage beam + pulse (6 seconds), salvage beam + pulse (15 seconds). All of them were 2.5 seconds long when used with logic, their cooldown was fine.
Seems that it is hardcoded somewhere.
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On default beams (1 second) it only fired for a duration of 4 ticks, might be a rounding issue. (I assume it fired for that long, it consumed power equivalent to 4 ticks)
On beams that adjusted the beam duration, it seems to have multiple issues. Tested on a modified bursttime config for beam + pulse that extended the beam duration by 3 times, to 4 seconds.
When activated with logic:
Blueprint I used:
(logic activation module is right next to the left beam array), adjusted config value for damage beam + pulse => <BurstTime style="buff" value="3"/>Can this be reassessed? I can't see a problem in SP. In the blueprint a lot of lag is created with the link to the giant array of power capacitors
All tests were single module and if secondary was linked it was single module as well.
shield supply/drain
shield supply player fired 1200 shield points
shield supply logic fired 960 shield points
shield drain player fired 25 shield points
shield drain logic fired 15 shield points on first shot and 20 points on consecutive shots
https://youtu.be/ZIsJ32CjyX4
power supply/drain
power drain player fired 1st shot 500 power points
power drain logic fired 1st shot 300 power points 2nd shot 400 power points
Encountered odd behavior with the targets power as the status on the display block would jump up a few hundred points within 4 seconds after the player fired beam stopped firing.
power supply player fired 1st shot 1200 power points 2nd shot 1200 power points did a tab+f6 refresh and power dropped from 45400 to 44920 initial power was at 43000 in effect the shots were doing 960 points but showing 1200 points
power supply logic fired 1st shot 960 power points 2nd shot 960 points, doesn't seem to have a delayed refresh like player fired shots
https://youtu.be/42yvH3JQiiA
salvage and salvage/pulse
Couldn't see any meaningful difference between logic fired and player fired. Seems like the leftover damage from one would be applied when the other fired, leading to an inconsistent "winner" as far as blocks removed goes.
https://youtu.be/WR-sMlsELWo
damagebeam/damagebeam and damagebeam/damagepulse
player fired db/db 1st shot dealt 300 shield damage 2nd shot 300 shield damage
logic fired db/db 1st shot dealt 240 shield damage 2nd shot 240 shield damage
player fired db/dp 1st shot 1100 shield damage 2nd shot 880 shield damage
logic fired db/dp 1st shot 880 shield damage
https://youtu.be/doIHkKozEW8
The beams no longer appear to be locked to 2.5 second burst times as evidenced by the salvage with damage pulse slaved. However there seems to be a bit of desynch with player fired weapons not showing the actual (if not correct) damages on the entity till a few seconds have passed.
The 880 damage from the damage beam with damage pulse slave does not match up with what is listed in the weapon menu details so only the first shot which was player made did the correct damage.
Unlike what is listed in the task description the damage beam with damage pulse slave does not have a burst time of 6 seconds this might have been changed since original task was made.