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Ships that are assigned to inactive missions, RTB at the begining of the scenario

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What are they supposed to do?

https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=417511

They are suppose to wait until the mission is activated. Many scenarios has inactive missions at the start. In this example the mission designer has manualy set waypoints that the ships should follow until a specific time when the mission is activated.

Another option in the missions, more complications?

Swant wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2026 2:38 pm They are suppose to wait until the mission is activated. Many scenarios has inactive missions at the start. In this example the mission designer has manualy set waypoints that the ships should follow until a specific time when the mission is activated.

I agree. From a scenario design perspective this is a problematic approach especially for ships. Imo it should be restated as originally. I guess this is the new tweak that has units assigned to a deactivated mission go RTB. I don't believe this should be a necessary behavior.

Well, in this case, this is my second bug report, that is fixed, and backfires.

I will stop creating them


Then, how are my naval drones supposed to RTB, giving them the order one by one.

I think this is the line in question, so if the mission is already inactive, it should not happen?

FIXED: #17367: (1884) Units that are currently on-mission when mission is inactivated do not RTB automatically

Nikel wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2026 3:56 pm Well, in this case, this is my second bug report, that is fixed, and backfires.

I will stop creating them


Then, how are my naval drones supposed to RTB, giving them the order one by one.

Group them and RTB the group .

For the record my interpretation (and it could be idiosyncratic or not) of switching a mission to "inactive" status was - until the original post - that units assigned to that mission will not be further deployed for the purposes of the mission (units in bases will not launch - units out of bases will continue doing what they were doing, including, for the avoidance of doubt, execute the mission if already deployed in the mission). If I wanted to RTB the units already executing I will manually RTB them. If I remember correctly there is (was?) a check box under the deactivation time that said "RTB" and I understood that its purpose was to automate an RTB order when mission deactivation time kicked in. An RTB command for all units currently deployed on an active mission does not entail de-activating the mission. Why should the opposite be true (i.e. Deactivate -> RTB). To my mind they are two distinct things. "RTB" is an order, Active / Inactive is status.

I created the bug report, because when I deactivated a patrol mission with ACs manually, they RTB.

But when the same was done in a demining mission with naval drones, they just stopped the engines instead of RTB, like the ACs did.

Damned if we do, damned if we don't....

To be always the same, independently of the situation, is a good thing


Alternatives?

- Revert the fix, apparently everyone was happy with how it worked before.

- Add an option to the status of the mission: active, inactive and inactive and RTB.

- Only RTB the unmanned ships when you inactivate the mission.

- ?

There's already a Checkbox to make the Unit RTB on mission deactivation, so I probably missing something but you just use that checkbox to make the units RTB on deactivation, I'd revert the tweak.

But that is only available when you set a deactivation time.

Not in the status options above that you change manually.

Well, what I'd say if you change the status manually you should also care manually of the units. You can just set a deactivation time in the next 5s if you want to avoid that...