Planes on Carriers

It looks like just another visual bug. I've notice that the last update broke a lot of the graphics.

thunderdog1138 wrote:

It looks like just another visual bug. I've notice that the last update broke a lot of the graphics.

If they cannot manage don't do it. The new looks are great

They are confusing and bugged

Ryan04px2025 wrote:

The new looks are great

There appears to be an issue with merging carriers. For the time being while this is being worked on I suggest you refrain from merging carriers that are loaded with planes.

VorlonFCW wrote:

There appears to be an issue with merging carriers. For the time being while this is being worked on I suggest you refrain from merging carriers that are loaded with planes.

VorlonFCW wrote:

There appears to be an issue with merging carriers. For the time being while this is being worked on I suggest you refrain from merging carriers that are loaded with planes.

ONE SERIOUS WARNING ABOUT CoW AIRCRAFT CARRIER UNITS:

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER separate one or more aircraft carrier units from a larger stack of naval units, either while they have aircraft units onboard or while they have aircraft in the air operating from the stack. Bad things can and will happen to your aircraft units. Like aircraft units disappearing * poof * into the Bermuda Triangle, never to be seen again. DON'T DO IT. If you're going to separate one or more carrier units from the larger stack, fly the planes off the carriers to a land base first.

At one point, I played with CoW aircraft carrier units about as much as anyone else in the game, from L1 through L7 "elite" units, and including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier unit. When you can fly two 5-squadron tactical wings off a single carrier unit, that's a powerful strike weapon on the 50 and 100-player maps. But, if you'll pardon the metaphor, you need to learn to crawl before you can run the mile under 4 minutes . . . .

Actually Mr. Montana carriers have been operating rather smoothly until this week, the frequent glitches that you speak of have been largely nonexistent.

Of course now you have returned, and the carrier glitches have also. Hmmmmm.

VorlonFCW wrote:

Actually Mr. Montana carriers have been operating rather smoothly until this week, the frequent glitches that you speak of have been largely nonexistent.

Try it, with your aircraft wing (not mine), and get back to me. As I understood it, there were some very difficult and quirky programming details to be addressed.

Well, actually the problem does not have anything to do with merging/unmerging the carrier (and planes) from a convoy.

I had a stationary carrier and landed the planes. Once the planes were aboard, I began to move the carrier to join it's escorts, but the planes stayed behind in the ocean (shown as a truck ).

So while the above is quite helpful, if I generate any carriers in the future, it does not actually address the issue.

Thanks to everyone for looking at this.

Boss872 wrote:

I had a stationary carrier and landed the planes. Once the planes were aboard, I began to move the carrier to join it's escorts, but the planes stayed behind in the ocean (shown as a truck ).

It has worked right for a long time Mr. M, until this week that is.

Thanks for the report Boss872, I’ll look into it and add that scenario to the current case.

MontanaBB wrote:

VorlonFCW wrote:

Actually Mr. Montana carriers have been operating rather smoothly until this week, the frequent glitches that you speak of have been largely nonexistent.

Kosh, have you ever personally separated an aircraft carrier unit from a multi-carrier stack while you have aircraft in the air, operating from those carriers?

Try it, with your aircraft wing (not mine), and get back to me. As I understood it, there were some very difficult and quirky programming details to be addressed.

1) when trying to merge them, you can' t sail one group unto the other (even when only ONE of them has carriers); you have to select both groups and sail them to some empty location elsewhere;

2) it is unpredictable how air groups will seperate when carrier groups are split. For example, when you have two 5-capacity carriers operating one 5-5 air group, the air group will split in two, but I never managed to find any rules about which planes are assigned to which carrier.

Yeah great, just had two naval bombers disappearing from me.

they sat on the stationary carrier, I selected patrol, set the desired patrol point and *poof* two bombers gone to nirvana.

reloaded the page about 10 times but nothing, they are gone...

They might be there but not visible at the moment. Try selecting where you think they are, or running your mouse cursor over the area to see if they highlight. You could hold down the right mouse button and draw a shadow loop around the carrier and see what units of yours get selected.

Nope, they are most definetely gone. went through all armies via the arrow key, and to this day they haven't turned up.

[/img]This keeps happening to me today: Planes disembark carriers in the middle of the ocean. Sometimes when ordered to patrol, sometimes because they just want to swim.

Yup, just happened to me. Was waiting for/collecting my invasion force half way across the atlantic and the planes on my two carriers just decided to disembark. luckily hamilton island is somewhat nearby and i have ROF on it...

Try tying them down, the winds might be blowing them overboard??

I got the glitch as well, not the first time