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Don Bowen -> RE: Tanker won't load oil (8/17/2006 9:23:53 PM)
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A limitation in the Oil load routine requires that there be at least one resource point at the base before oil can be loaded. Just get some resource points the Pago Pago.
Technical discussion for those that are interested (or bored).
This stems from the fact that the program allows mixed Oil/Resource loading for a TF. There is only one load control on the Task Force screen. Depending on TF composition it will display:
Load Oil if one or more tankers are included.
Load Resources if one or more AKs are included.
Load Oil/Resources if one or more of each are included.
The underlying load routines, however, check for load of all possible ships in the Task Force. This results in two separate checks, one for “is there oil available?” and another for “is there resource available?”. In each case, a “No” answer will cause cancellation of the load order. The controls and the sequence of the checks results in a load cancellation due to no-resources overriding the load order for oil.
This means that a command to “Load Resources” will work if there is no oil but a command to “Load Oil” will fail if there are no resources.
We are aware of this problem but it is not a priority item and has not been addressed in 1.8.0.2. We did look at it. There was an original assumption that this problem might be caused by an reference error (checking resource stocks instead of oil stocks) but it turned out to be more complex. Just did not make the cut.
A review of the entire load process (especially that for troops) is on the wish list. Sometime between now and porcine aviation.
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