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[SCC]

I think I'm not mistaken here: ion pulser uses flux for entire burst even if it fires only one shot.

[Dark.Revenant]

I'm almost certain this is the case.  It would make the pulser use 3x the rated sustained flux/sec when empty.

[SCC]

I've band-aided this by changing pulser regen to clips, though it doesn't stop pulser from sometimes firing only 1 shot (though this isn't as big of an issue, I don't even know how I got this). On the good side, AI doesn't continuously fire ion pulser and it's immune to this bug, unlike the player.

[Alex]

Hmm. So this isn't really a bug, it's more "how things work" - burst weapons charge upfront for the whole burst. The AI should be handling this fine - just confirmed, autofire also fires off when it gets 6 shots, so there's no waste.

Probably less than ideal in this particular case, but I don't want to muck around with the flux-cost logic here or add any special rules. Added a 3-shot reload clip size to the pulser, though, since that gets around 90% of any of the awkwardness.