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From 1107 list:
Viewing TF list automatically tries to refuel ships; don't do this as it affects ship ops and port refueling without player's knowledge [MEM]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

Refueling will almost always be done before a TF leaves on its mission.

ORIGINAL: michaelm

I looked at Manus and there was a support TF 497 which didn't refuel when I told it to leave port.

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So there may be something to the randomness that refuel isn't always working.

The general rule from what I can see is that TFs are checked for refuel before they leave the base.
There are other conditions that also govern refuel, but I would have expected the general rule to be the backstop.

There was a bug that was fixed in the early beta that could have some bearing on this.

From 1107 list:
Viewing TF list automatically tries to refuel ships; don't do this as it affects ship ops and port refueling without player's knowledge [MEM]

Whenever the TF screen was opened, the code would go thru the list before displaying and attempt to refuel any possible TFs from port or RepTfs. IIRC, it didn't even necessarily allocate Ops to the ships.
This was fixed and the extra button added 'Refuel all on list' so that the player had some control over which TFs could be refueled.

It could be that this bug was hiding that not all TFs were being auto-refueled correctly.

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Non-transport type TFs with cargo space used (as in Support ships with supplies) are not being refueled. I think this may have always been the case but was obscured by the above bug. The check was to stop Transport TFs from refueling while loading and using up Ops points.

ORIGINAL: michaelm

Non-transport type TFs with cargo space used (as in Support ships with supplies) are not being refueled. I think this may have always been the case but was obscured by the above bug. The check was to stop Transport TFs from refueling while loading and using up Ops points.

Makes sense but in this instance the TF is set to 'do not unload'. I have had other instances were an empty TF has arrived in port and not refueled, this is not much of a problem under manual control but under CS it is.

Checking for refueling when you list TF is weird

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

This is something I've noticed for a while over numerous betas: I'm playing auto-sub mode and subs seem to gather in port but won't go out and play again on their own. As I recall, they used to form their own SS TFs and go out on patrol.

Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks in advance for your response, michaelm.

Cheers,
CC

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

I guess it isn't a normal behavior when the Auto Convoy system forms TFs and simply adds escorts(KV, DD) to it even when they are NOT in the Auto Convoy pool?

Pre-Turn save attached, best example is looking at the 3 DD is Colombo and looking at them in the after turn save, you find 2 of them now in Auto Convoy TFs.

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

@michaelm
The manual mentions these weather types:
"Clear, Partly Cloudy, Overcast, Rain, Thunderstorms"
But in-game I see a lot more types, is there a difference for each of them on the gameplay or are the different names purely chrome and only those 5 general categories are used?
And do you have a complete list of weather names?

ORIGINAL: michaelm

Each of the basic weather settings has a secondary setting 
[Clear]                   "Clear sky", "Light cloud",
[Partly cloudy]        "Partial cloud",  "Heavy cloud",
[Overcast]             "Overcast", "Light rain",
[Rain]                   "Moderate rain", "Heavy rain",
[Thunderstorm]       "Thunderstorms", "Severe storms",
"Extreme overcast"