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I was reading and waiting to see where this was going. I can see only a couple of solutions that would not end up in a Risk stalemate where you just piling up armies on the other side of a jump point:
- Going back to the old advantage where NPR have no jump shock to deal with, effectively "cheating", or by giving them a reduced jump shock, so that you are still getting the advantage but for limited amount of time compared to the current and player
- AI would send a scout in advance prior jumping and if an enemy fleet is on the other side would decide if the mission they are carrying over justifies the risk and pretty much still ending up wiped out eventually
The problem with 1 is that we are trying to get away from cheating AIs in favor of a more "smart" one. The problem with 2 is that we could go back to the old peeking problem with scouts jumping in and out systems every cycle.
We could have a random zero-time jump shock, valid also for the player.
I've built a bunch of Decoy reloads (for my ship's decoy launchers) on Earth. But they won't load into my Ammo Tenders.
I can design a ship that has hundreds of Decoy Launchers, and just load the launchers on Earth and unload them on the destination planet... but is there a simpler way of getting replacement Decoys to the battle-front?
Unfortunately there is not. It is on the to-do list but I have yet to see an ETA for a solution to this one.
Following this https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13090.msg164759#msg164759 I don't think such a solution was never in the cards.
They are WAI like Box Launchers, so you have to reload them in an hangar or at a colony.
If we compare these to CHAFF systems, it makes sense.
The problem is transporting decoy missiles between populations. Regular missiles may be transported by magazines regardless of what kind of launcher they will be fired from. Decoy missiles cannot, which is a problem.
I've built a bunch of Decoy reloads (for my ship's decoy launchers) on Earth. But they won't load into my Ammo Tenders.
I can design a ship that has hundreds of Decoy Launchers, and just load the launchers on Earth and unload them on the destination planet... but is there a simpler way of getting replacement Decoys to the battle-front?
Unfortunately there is not. It is on the to-do list but I have yet to see an ETA for a solution to this one.
Following this https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13090.msg164759#msg164759 I don't think such a solution was never in the cards.
They are WAI like Box Launchers, so you have to reload them in an hangar or at a colony.
If we compare these to CHAFF systems, it makes sense.
2.5.1 Issue - Launch Ready Ordnance order only happens once per increment
Expected result - Launch Ready Ordnance order takes effect as many times as was ordered and completed per increment
Impact:
With a suitably fast engine, and JPs close enough together, this issue causes me to have to babysit my buoy dropping ships to ensure I am skipping time slow enough for each buoy to drop successfully.
Steps to reproduce:
In Missile Designer, create an engineless buoy
Create a ship, engine, launcher, FC, and magazine capable of supporting & launching the buoy
Build the ship
Assign the launcher and buoy to the appropriate FC
Identify a system with points of interest close enough for your ship to reach them all within a 5 day increment -- or alternatively create waypoints close enough together to reach all within a 5 day increment
Set ship orders to Launch Ready Ordnance at all locations
Pass time for 5 days
Expected result
Buoy dropped at each POI reached during that increment
Actual Result
First buoy dropped, others skipped that were reached during that increment
Note: Same issue occurs if using fleet order "Move to location" followed by "Launch Ready Ordnance", tested in case that was part of the problem. The temp waypoints I used in my test all disappeared, so I feel somewhat confident in thinking that the destinations were actually reached by my ship, just nothing [other than the first buoy] was dropped.
I was reading and waiting to see where this was going. I can see only a couple of solutions that would not end up in a Risk stalemate where you just piling up armies on the other side of a jump point:
- Going back to the old advantage where NPR have no jump shock to deal with, effectively "cheating", or by giving them a reduced jump shock, so that you are still getting the advantage but for limited amount of time compared to the current and player
- AI would send a scout in advance prior jumping and if an enemy fleet is on the other side would decide if the mission they are carrying over justifies the risk and pretty much still ending up wiped out eventually
The problem with 1 is that we are trying to get away from cheating AIs in favor of a more "smart" one. The problem with 2 is that we could go back to the old peeking problem with scouts jumping in and out systems every cycle.
I've built a bunch of Decoy reloads (for my ship's decoy launchers) on Earth. But they won't load into my Ammo Tenders.
I can design a ship that has hundreds of Decoy Launchers, and just load the launchers on Earth and unload them on the destination planet... but is there a simpler way of getting replacement Decoys to the battle-front?
Unfortunately there is not. It is on the to-do list but I have yet to see an ETA for a solution to this one.
It's a database corruption issue
