Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I have encountered multiple issues with grouped weapons. I have 'cleared my cache' and it has failed to fix the problem. After facing this issue yet again today I really am at a loss with playing this game as it is fundamental to the actual playing of it.

The problem is described as follows and in order of tears:

1) grouped guns not firing as a group. I have 7 artillery canons grouped as one nice fast button. When i press this button, it lights up and fires but ONLY ONE GUN FIRES. In the logs it shows:

[ 2011.11.20 08:21:47 ] (combat) Your 1400mm Gallium I Cannon lightly hits [victim], doing 237.8 damage.

The log on a previous gank with exactly the same setup:

[ 2011.11.19 10:51:12 ] (combat) Your group of 1400mm Gallium I Cannon is well aimed at [victim], inflicting 3961.9 damage.

Note the lack of GROUP and associated damage with the first log.

I guess you would not notice in a big fleet fight as your button is green and is lit up and seemingly all good. However i am suicide ganking and its quite apparent when instead of the ship exploding a tiny portion of the shields go. There is nothing then you can do as the game itself is acting like the group is firing, i cannot press f1-f8 as well i only have the group sitting there on f1 which is green and cycling BUT F*N BROKEN.


2) When initiating a suicide gank by prefiring my guns the concord warning appears, i press yes and NONE OF THE GUNS FIRE which is even more awesome i guess (see following log). I tried to get around this by prefiring a target painter to do the concord press AND THEN firing my guns but then see point 1 where only 1 of my grouped weapons fire instead of all of them.

Guns are preheated and prefired, after accepting concord warning off it goes and i hit the scram button:

[ 2011.11.19 14:16:15 ] (notify) TheBadMan, Criminals are not welcome here. Leave now or be destroyed.
AND HERE IS WHERE LOGS OF MY GUNS FIRING SHOULD BE BUT THEY NEVER FIRED EVEN THOUGH THE ICON WENT GREEN AND CYCLED
[ 2011.11.19 14:16:18 ] (notify) TheBadMan [GEWNS]<CONDI>(Brutix) has started trying to warp scramble "[victim]"
[ 2011.11.19 14:16:25 ] (notify) CONCORD Police Captain has started trying to warp scramble "TheBadMan [GEWNS]<CONDI>(Brutix)"
and then im dead and all for naught.


So well i guess im looking at a game where my guns dont even work so yeah. DUe to the current goon ganking ice miners fun times i have heard other goons have these problems but i dunno if anyone has bothered to do anything about it so here i am. I want to play this game but well im facing a situation where 1 in every 5 times my guns actually work and it is lame. I guess the ice miners are happy though.