Critical: Airforce now useless: Planes now returning to refuel when airbase rocketed, instead of carrying on patrol
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Hi,
There seems to be a new bug now where if I have planes patrolling, and the air base they come from is rocketed, instead of them continuing to patrol and just switching to another air base in range, they are actually returning to refuel at the new air base.
This is an absolutely critical issue, because it literally renders all airforce completely useless as soon as rockets are researched on day 6
Scenario:
- Planes patrol enemy
- Enemy golds level 1 rocket
- Rocket damages/destroys airstrip
- Patrolling planes switch to new airbase
- Patrolling planes now AUTO-Return to new airbase to refuel (enemy can immediately see this new flight pattern)
- Enemy gold rockets and rockets the province with new airbase
- Planes take 30 min to refuel, rockets take 10 mins to hit...
- Planes are smashed while refuelling. While refuelling they have convoy-health, so the damage is massively more significant
- Literally cannot avoid the rockets now because they are refuelling
Please fix ASAP! (such that planes do not return to refuel and instead continue patrolling as usual)
Thanks,
Ryan
6 Replies
8 Mar 2023, 10:13
Iam a noob and have no clue, but airports should be upgraded to lvl 3... than its way harder to do stuff against airports....dont know why people let air airports on lvl 1..... and btw. isn't destoying airfields the main stuff of rockets? or when is it extrem good to use rockets if not for getting airports down and so their planes?...but like I said iam a extrem noob and have no clue about this stuff (mostly becouase iam in games in which are mostly beginners). But probably I misunderstood the stuff.... who knows xd... its about the refueling at the new airport...no clue how we want it.... but its clear that this makes the one side stronger or weaker (depends on how it is/should be)
8 Mar 2023, 11:34
I thought that this was the intended behavior and had been so for a while.
8 Mar 2023, 13:31
Yeah
That is normal
you should build a level 3 airbase and other buildings
So 1 rocket cannot take you out
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8 Mar 2023, 15:38
That is not normal. I have been using airforce for a long time, and that is definitely not the norm, unless it's a more recent update, I did take a break from the game).
However, while I agree, should always upgrade to level 3, that is not always possible.
For example, scenario:
- I am invading Australia
- I have taken the borneo islands and got my airbase there
- I have just taken land in Northern Aus and built airstrips
- It takes ~8hr54 mins to build it up to level 2 airstrip... (25% morale just taken, 8hr54 at 31%)
- In that 8hr54, it gets immediately rocketed by a golded rocket
Unless I am willing to gold it straight to level 3, on only 25% morale, it will keep being blown to bits by rockets, and hence this keeps happening. It renders airforce useless for an invasion
Yeah this behavior was changed consciously somewhere in the last year or so, so it isn't really "new" or "buggy". Destroying enemy airbases is probably the most effective gold use. When you decide to sell your soul and use gold anyway, you don't even need to buy rockets, you can just target the prov with saboteurs (like you always could). But be aware, that the same effects can be achieved without gold, using strats (or even rockets) instead.
Also in your Borneo-to-Australia scenario, using carriers would have kept you safe from rockets.
8 Mar 2023, 23:10
My honest solution: Don't get an Airforce (unless it is defensive)
