[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9552) Bug: Air units sentry

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9552 >

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:29:52AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> > > > It is possible to sentry air units (missiles in this case) on places
> > > > (carrier on the ocean in this case) where they can't live and go out
> > > > of fuel. This is irritating.
> > > >
> > > > Since the current implementation of load/unload does not load
> > > > sentried units automatically, this isn't useful at all.
> > >
> > > Indeed.
> > >
> > > I thought of just changing the client to not let it do this.  But on
> > > reflection I think we can just have this as a game rule: units are not
> > > allowed to sentry or remain sentried on tiles that they will die on.

> > Missiles on submarines and airplanes on carriers are not and cannot be
> > sentried (they most probably were in the savegame).
> 
> Yeah, can_unit_survive_at_tile ignores whether the unit is transported.
>  Which I should have known.  Here is a patch that fixes it.

Yes, sentry works now.

> > Unload command is possible, but with no result.
> > 
> > Load is not possible.
> 
> Now that is odd.  Are you sure?

Ok, we have an auto load/unload here. Which makes it impossible to select
the air units to load on a transporter. I have to move them away to unload
and make a spare place for another one. Maybe ok. But when I have more than
1 transporter on a tile, I'm probably stuck.

The menue item unload is still selectable, and the 'load' never is.

> > Missiles can live on a carrier.
> 
> Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?

Ehm, this must have changed, you're correct.

Christian

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