I know. You need a boolean field to track the state of the firing key. Any time its value is different that the current state of the key, it means the key just went up or down. Only shoot when the new state becomes the down state.

private void fire() { ViralLoad viralload = new ViralLoad(0,0); getWorld().addObject(viralload,getArcX(), getArcY()); viralload.setRotation(-degFull); viralload.move(radius); load.setRotation(-degFull); } LIke this???

The following would be more like it (so far):

Just call updateLoadPosition right after changing the value of degFull (should be two places).

private void fire() { ViralLoad viralload = new ViralLoad(getArcX(), getArcY()); getWorld().addObject(viralload, getX(), getY()+radius/2); viralload.setRotation(-degFull); viralload.move(radius); updateLoadPosition(); } protected void addedToWorld(World world) { world.addObject(load, 0, 0); updateLoadPosition(); } private void updateLoadPosition() { load.setLocation(getArcX(), getArcY()); load.setRotation(-degFull); load.move(0); } ok i did that and i still have the ViralLoad staying at the bottom and not moving as the meter goes up

That would be a problem.