erstad -> RE: Vanishing Pilots (12/18/2013 11:32:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert I don't know if they end up in Area 51, but there is something else players should be wary of. On a number of occasions I have ordered veterans to transfer from the reserve to a squadron, they turned out to be immediately available but before I activated them I also drew one or more replacement pilots/crews. The pilots with a delay of 1 just disappear. I don't know if they totally vaporized or not since I didn't record their names beforehand and haven't done a simulation to find out. To recap, if you have pilots available to be activated in the group, but before you do that you draw some pilots from the replacement pool, the vet pilots in queue to be activated disappear. That's what has always happened to me when I did it, and I try mightily not to do it again, but even the most basic mistakes you can make draw me like the sirens drew Odysseus' crew to their end, again and again. [8|] At least as of the last official patch, that isn't what I've observed. What happens when you click the get pilot button is that it activates an available group reserve pilot in preference to pulling a new pilot. For example, if you see the ready pilots as 25(2) and have the "get pilots source" set to "replacement" and click "get pilot" you will now see 26(1) One of the two group reserve pilots have moved to active. No pilot was pulled from "replacement". The "get pilots" won't start coming from the external source until all pilots with a delay of "1" are activated.
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