EVE New Citizens Q&A

Recently, I purchased a Corax, and loaded it with all assortments of lovely fittings, bringing it to over 600 dps. While on my merry way, I came across someone attacking other new players and decided to play Good-Guy-Greg. The attacker was piloting a well fitted Incursus, but the lowly frigate had no comparison to my destroyer's capabilities... or so I thought.

When the fellow finished killing off several victims and turned his attention to me, I let loose with a group of 7 launchers... only to do a measly 40ish damage. I didn't know what was going wrong, and before I had a chance to figure things out, I was killed, my ship and all it's fittings lost.

I'm not complaining about being killed, mind you, EVE is just that sort of game, roll with the punches and whatnot... what has my nickers in a twist is that upon further investigation, I found out that, though all my launchers were loaded and grouped, only ONE of them was firing at a time.

Not as in 1st, 2nd, 3rd mind you, but rather the 1st fired, reloaded, fired, and all the others just sat there.

I've tried to regroup them on my replacement, but it does the same thing. It takes about 3 or 4 goes of grouping, ungrouping, and regrouping to get them to work as intended. Is this a known bug in the game, or am I just having some terrible luck?

I wish it were so simple, but all my launchers were actually loaded with the same missile package.

Are they all the exact same named launchers?

As per my above edit, there's no way you are going to get 600 DPS out of that Corax. What you are talking about is volley damage. And even then, the total volley damage isn't a reliable indicator. The amount of damage you will do depends on your speed, your target's speed, target ship size, your missile skills, and the resists of the target ship vs the damage type of your missiles.

Long story short, never rely solely on EFT or any other similar tool. Most of the time, EFT is WAY off what you're going to see on the in-game fit screen and in actual combat.

Are you sure that the missiles are actually grouped?
If you see 7 launchers in your overview, they are not grouped, whatever you might think they are. If they are grouped, you only see one launcher, with a little "7" to indicate that it's a group of 7.

Look at: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/File:OverheatingGroup.png
In the first image, there are two groups: one with one turret and one with six.
In the second image, there are seven individual turrets, none are grouped.

The "group weapons" button occasionally acts weirdly, but I've never seen an issue where the HUD indicated a single group of weapons that then failed to fire together.

Confirming that I too have had that same bug with the Corax (albeit on a mission so I didnt really think much of it).

All i did to fix it was ungroup and regroup again, but file a report and maybe a petition if you want to attempt to get your ship back.

Ungroup and regroup your launchers, however I feel the damage you did to the incursus sounds about right. It was probably afterburner fit going over 1km/s and with it's tiny sig radius will easily tank a newbies missiles.