Moderators: wdolson, MOD_War-in-the-Pacific-Admirals-Edition
Thanks for taking the time to respond. As noted in the post above, this isn't a huge issue for the Human player, and I can definitely understand imposing a penalty on randomly yanking units in and out of Pierside Repair mode. The problem comes when there is no "higher level" of repair (ala "Shipyard"). At this point the repair is as complete as it will ever be - in this port - and yet the unit will not be automatically placed in readiness, as is done with a unit that has finished all repairs. There doesn't seem to be a logical reason why one has the penalty and the other does not. So if a solution could be coded, one hopes it would be.
The concern (and admittedly I could be completely off base), is will the AI place a unit into a Repair Mode that it cannot automatically extricate itself from? In the example above, if the AI placed a sub into Pierside Repair mode, the code would never remove it (unless the code is different for AI control than it is for Human control).
ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Thanks for taking the time to respond. As noted in the post above, this isn't a huge issue for the Human player, and I can definitely understand imposing a penalty on randomly yanking units in and out of Pierside Repair mode. The problem comes when there is no "higher level" of repair (ala "Shipyard"). At this point the repair is as complete as it will ever be - in this port - and yet the unit will not be automatically placed in readiness, as is done with a unit that has finished all repairs. There doesn't seem to be a logical reason why one has the penalty and the other does not. So if a solution could be coded, one hopes it would be.
Philosophically, we can't know if the player is about to send an AR or ARD to that location, so we just leave the decision in the player's hands. It's a design choice and I can see both sides. I think adding an auto-move to readiness if there is no mode better than Pierside should go on the wish list though, I can see that being more useful in the majority of cases than leaving it as it is.
The concern (and admittedly I could be completely off base), is will the AI place a unit into a Repair Mode that it cannot automatically extricate itself from? In the example above, if the AI placed a sub into Pierside Repair mode, the code would never remove it (unless the code is different for AI control than it is for Human control).
Not a problem at all. The AI uses a hybridized repair mode (similar to original WITP) to avoid pitfalls like that.
ORIGINAL: Kull
ORIGINAL: Mynok
Have you tried refueling it with an AS?
Hmmm. No, but I'll run that test shortly. FWIW, the AS will only go into a "Support" TF, not a "Replenishment", but it will load fuel so we'll see what comes of that.
ORIGINAL: Tophat1812
My Betty's performed well also,as long as weather and range permitted. Attu is really the only island in range. Like your tests by the way. I'd have sent an SST to transport mini-sub and attack Dutch harbor,but thats me.[;)]
ORIGINAL: Kull
But morbid curiousity leaves me wondering how long she'll stick it out, so on station I-35 remains! As something of a test, I'm going to boost her speed up to "Full" in the hopes that the incremental accrual of speed-related damage will finally take her past the "return-to-port magic number" (so we can see roughly where it is).
ORIGINAL: Kull
BTW, the reason repair priority is set to "Normal" is that "High" results in 185 days, while "Critical" is 183. We'll ignore the fact that displaying ANY number of days here gives the player the mistaken impression that repair is even possible! [:(]
