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AlPhi -> Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:12:37 PM)

Hello all - my first post here. I play ROTS latest version unmodded so far and have lurked these forums since DW release.

I am obviously missing something in the manual and encyclopaedia (or it is a game feature that seems illogical and a bit annoying) but why do troops disappear from troopships in transit? I load up a trooper with 5 units from a colony, send it to invade an enemy colony, but by the time it arrives it is lucky to have even one unit aboard. I watched one in transit and a unit disappeared every 20 sec or so. Why is this and how can I prevent losing my best units so fruitlessly?



ASHBERY76 -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:19:52 PM)

Wut.



Theluin -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:24:40 PM)

Perhaps your transport was moving through a storm and the troop components got destroyed. Also did you check if it was automated? I observed that automated transports sometimes drop troops in colonies the AI deems as endangered.



AlPhi -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:25:41 PM)

@ Ashbery: From your cryptic reply I guess that doesn't happen in your game. Any ideas why it would in mine?

@ Theluin: No, no storms just normal space. Also I watched the troops steadily disappearing while in open transit.



J HG T -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:32:38 PM)

Sounds like a rare bug to me. Never happened to me, or heard it happen to somebody else.



cookie monster -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:36:26 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: AlPhi
I am obviously missing something in the manual and encyclopaedia (or it is a game feature that seems illogical and a bit annoying) but why do troops disappear from troopships in transit? I load up a trooper with 5 units from a colony, send it to invade an enemy colony, but by the time it arrives it is lucky to have even one unit aboard. I watched one in transit and a unit disappeared every 20 sec or so. Why is this and how can I prevent losing my best units so fruitlessly?


Troops do not disappear from transports after loading and being ordered to attack another planet.

If you have found a bug and it is repeatable, then you should open a tech support thread and upload the save game to the server.

Save game upload instructions are included in a FAQ.



AlPhi -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 6:58:14 PM)

Thanks Cookie Monster, I will as it is very repeatable - it happens every time I use troops in troopships. Thanks to all who helped.



Data -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 7:03:13 PM)

Hi AlPhi and welcome to the forum. There are some things that could affect troops in transit, like they were hurt or not at full strenght and there's no medical facility in the ship design, but even so they should not dissapear. If you check the ships via the editor do you see the troops there?



AlPhi -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 8:05:11 PM)

Hi Data and thanks for the kind welcome. No I don't have ship facility issues as the ship is properly equipped and also the Troops are freshly loaded from good colonies. The Troops show (and steadily decline) in the ship description and also in the Ships & Bases screen detail panel - I'm unsure how you use the Game Editor to look at a specific ship and its contents though but the Troops just waste away in normal safe transit. Anyway a post is now in Tech Sp with a gamesave uploaded.



cookie monster -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 8:13:40 PM)

I have assessed the bug and found it genuine.

I wrote in the tech forum.


quote:

ORIGINAL: cookie monster

Right then MR!

I have looked at your save game and the troops do seem to disappear from your loaded transports while on route.

I also built some more transports and moved some of your Capital's troops. The two ship fleet started off with 12 troops and ended up with 6 before I decided I had seen enough and could confirm.

So CodeForce the games developer now have enough information to be able to patch out this bug.

As a workaround for your rare bug, you can add back the lost troops to your transports via the ingame editor.

Select the transport and add the troops.




Data -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 8:26:26 PM)

That's definitly a new one...too late for me to play with this, I wonder what could trigger this as this is the only time I've heard of this. Imagine if it happens in all our games and we'd not even notice it.
Good find, AlPhi



tjhkkr -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/16/2011 10:28:02 PM)

Welcome to the forum!

And Nice catch!



Facedrop -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/17/2011 1:47:59 AM)

I can can confirm this bug.
The exact same thing was happening to me at one point.



Data -> RE: Troops in Troopships (6/17/2011 8:16:22 AM)

Yap, it's already on the tech section now so hopefully Elliot will squash it.



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