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Digitalsyn:
Hi all. I was playing on a Goldfish with 3 engineers and when I went to use the Carronade, the whole crew started telling me to leave it alone. It confused me since we had no Gunner and somebody already loaded Heavy Clip in. Is there any particular reason why one engineer in particular should be using the carronade over the other? I had Charged Ammo.

Nobody was communicating in the match beforehand so it isn't like we all established our stations. Is there a real reason or was the crew being unnecessarily petty over who gets to use the gun?

Alistair MacBain:
Usually you have everyone assigned to a certain position. Even with 3 Engineers there will be one handling the frontgun, one handling the balloon +x and one on the hull.
I cant tell for sure what was the reason. Maybe you played with a premade team that organized itself through ts or sth similiar.

Usually if noone is shooting and youre ship isnt near death and youre deciding to use the frontgun when a enemy is in arc than its no big deal.
Hard to judge without indepth info about the situation.

Digitalsyn:
We were approaching a Mobula from behind during Paritan Rumble and no components were damaged at all. The other two engineers were running all over the ship so I don't know if they had assigned themselves certain zones. But I had 1 Balloon pop left to get the Newton's Law achievement so I decided to take the Carronade while it was free. That was when they told me to get off it.

Tanya Phenole:
My dear, you don't understand. One of those other engineers was doing the gunner role, and took the proper ammo for it.

It is usually done because that gunning engineer can buff the gun all the time.  You should learn the roles and loadouts for them, captains usually tell you loadout and role - be more attentive to chat and voice chat in the lobby.

That engineer probably left front carronade because was doing some repairs you have missed. also, carronade is very-close-range-gun, so approaching ship is not a reason to start shooting.

Once you spoil your role,  you spoil the role of other person too. That is very important to understand

Digitalsyn:
I did say we were fully repaired, not being shot at and able to shoot a Mobula from behind. When the 'Gunner' engineer left, I jumped on. Also the 'correct ammo' he was using was Heavy Clip. I had charged.

And when I say he left the gun, I do mean they just wandered around the ship. Not chemspraying or buffing. and there was nothing to spot.

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