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ORIGINAL: mantill

I formed a transport TF consisting of 4 AK's and one AP. The AP had just arrived in port and refueled, hence had 1000 pts. I loaded a large lcu, the AK's loaded fine and, as expected, the AP loaded nothing. However, after the turn executed the AK's were full of lcu and the AP had started loading supplies, leaving a remenant of the lcu on the dockside.

I imagine this is just an oversight, I can't imagine it was designed that way. Save available if needed. If you could add it to the list.

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

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ORIGINAL: mantill

I formed a transport TF consisting of 4 AK's and one AP. The AP had just arrived in port and refueled, hence had 1000 pts. I loaded a large lcu, the AK's loaded fine and, as expected, the AP loaded nothing. However, after the turn executed the AK's were full of lcu and the AP had started loading supplies, leaving a remenant of the lcu on the dockside.

I imagine this is just an oversight, I can't imagine it was designed that way. Save available if needed. If you could add it to the list.

You need to stretch your imagination then, 'cause that is exactly how they say they designed it. [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: mantill

I formed a transport TF consisting of 4 AK's and one AP. The AP had just arrived in port and refueled, hence had 1000 pts. I loaded a large lcu, the AK's loaded fine and, as expected, the AP loaded nothing. However, after the turn executed the AK's were full of lcu and the AP had started loading supplies, leaving a remenant of the lcu on the dockside.

I imagine this is just an oversight, I can't imagine it was designed that way. Save available if needed. If you could add it to the list.

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ORIGINAL: mantill

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

You need to stretch your imagination then, 'cause that is exactly how they say they designed it. [:'(]

I can understand why it won't load the lcu first time, because the op points are all used. But why does the AP then go on to load supplies rather than the remainder of the lcu? Are you saying it was designed that way?

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ORIGINAL: dtravel
Yes, I am. We have been told (by Mr.Frag IIRC) that the troop loading routines were deliberately made very restrictive like this. Apparently the programmers were concerned that units might disappear if they didn't.

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ORIGINAL: mantill

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ORIGINAL: dtravel
Yes, I am. We have been told (by Mr.Frag IIRC) that the troop loading routines were deliberately made very restrictive like this. Apparently the programmers were concerned that units might disappear if they didn't.

Hmmm, it strikes me that leaving unloaded fragments of lcu's around the place is more likely to lead to errors. A case in point being the above problem. When I then put the AP into its own TF and tried to force it to load the fragment on the dockside in the West Coast port it informed me it had loaded part of an lcu located in Singapore. In the end I reloaded the turn and had the whole TF unload to start again

Secondly is it so hard to code something along the lines

Is there any part of the lcu left to load .YES.
Is there spare capacity in the TF .YES.
The load rest of lcu on TF

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

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ORIGINAL: mantill

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

You need to stretch your imagination then, 'cause that is exactly how they say they designed it. [:'(]

I can understand why it won't load the lcu first time, because the op points are all used. But why does the AP then go on to load supplies rather than the remainder of the lcu? Are you saying it was designed that way?

Yes, I am. We have been told (by Mr.Frag IIRC) that the troop loading routines were deliberately made very restrictive like this. Apparently the programmers were concerned that units might disappear if they didn't.