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Raman posted 04-13-99 11:14 PM ET
I've got "automatic fueling at base" on yet many times when I set a patrol route for an air unit, it fails to refuel and crash on subsequent turns! In all cases, total squares of patrol route is within range of unit, so there's plenty of time to re-fuel when unit returns to base and starts patrol again. I set "triangle" routes from base with space bar. Hope you can fix.
RetroKill posted 04-14-99 11:00 PM ET
Hey... Don't mean to spam you man, but you need one full turn to refuel your planes. When you set a patrol route it overrides the auto refueling preferance for air units.
So when the plane flies back to base, it can't refuel because it has to move on the patrol route you set for it.
Raman posted 04-15-99 08:43 PM ET
So what are you saying? I've noticed that planes stop halfway on their range ... eg. if range is 24, then plane stops on 12 and waits till next turn to complete. Given that, then range is only 12 in one turn and not 24? Seems a contradiction to me. If range is 24, then that's how far plane should move in 1 turn .. not half the distance! If I set a patrol route that totals 18 squares and returns to base, then it seems plane should stop and refuel. If refueling takes one turn, then ok, I can live with that [eg. patrol (1 turn) refuel (1 turn) patrol again]. I still says its a bug and inconsistent with game rules. FIRAXIS, what do you think? Can you clarify?
ChairmanLee posted 04-15-99 10:05 PM ET
I also think it depends on the amount of energy that is advalible at the base. I had a number of planes at one of my bases and they never seemed to refuel, no matter how long they were there. When I moved them to other nearby bases the then refueled.
Is this a bug or a feature.
Being a programmer myself we would always called this types of things undocumented features.
We could always do the very last thing any of us games do....
Read the book that came with the game.
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Author	Topic: air units crashing
Raman	posted 04-13-99 11:14 PM ET I've got "automatic fueling at base" on yet many times when I set a patrol route for an air unit, it fails to refuel and crash on subsequent turns! In all cases, total squares of patrol route is within range of unit, so there's plenty of time to re-fuel when unit returns to base and starts patrol again. I set "triangle" routes from base with space bar. Hope you can fix.
RetroKill	posted 04-14-99 11:00 PM ET Hey... Don't mean to spam you man, but you need one full turn to refuel your planes. When you set a patrol route it overrides the auto refueling preferance for air units. So when the plane flies back to base, it can't refuel because it has to move on the patrol route you set for it.
Raman	posted 04-15-99 08:43 PM ET So what are you saying? I've noticed that planes stop halfway on their range ... eg. if range is 24, then plane stops on 12 and waits till next turn to complete. Given that, then range is only 12 in one turn and not 24? Seems a contradiction to me. If range is 24, then that's how far plane should move in 1 turn .. not half the distance! If I set a patrol route that totals 18 squares and returns to base, then it seems plane should stop and refuel. If refueling takes one turn, then ok, I can live with that [eg. patrol (1 turn) refuel (1 turn) patrol again]. I still says its a bug and inconsistent with game rules. FIRAXIS, what do you think? Can you clarify?
ChairmanLee	posted 04-15-99 10:05 PM ET I also think it depends on the amount of energy that is advalible at the base. I had a number of planes at one of my bases and they never seemed to refuel, no matter how long they were there. When I moved them to other nearby bases the then refueled. Is this a bug or a feature. Being a programmer myself we would always called this types of things undocumented features. We could always do the very last thing any of us games do.... Read the book that came with the game.