Fire at will!

Hi,

What's aggressive fire behavior for ranged units when you have:

1. Right of way

2. Shared map

3. Shared intelligence

Thanks

Your units won't attack those nations then. They will only bombard neutral or enemy troops when set to aggressive.

I hope you guys make use of being able to set up pre-emptive naval blockades now Which is also done by default now on sea using the standard settings.

So now you can park a RR gun on a coastline and it will bombard any neutral surface unit passing within range?

Arcorian wrote:

We fixed an issue that caused submarines staying invisible during an attack when crossed by an enemy naval unit.

God i love this update, finally being able to have an effective naval blockade, RRG and arty that will engage automatically. No more sneak attacks while sleeping. I know what i will do before going to bed.

Doe this apply to new games or ALL GAMES CURRENTLY

EZ Dolittle wrote:

Doe this apply to new games or ALL GAMES CURRENTLY

dw98 wrote:

So now you can park a RR gun on a coastline and it will bombard any neutral surface unit passing within range?

It will trigger war with all those bombarded neutral nation, but yes.

WayneBo wrote:

Arcorian wrote:

We fixed an issue that caused submarines staying invisible during an attack when crossed by an enemy naval unit.

attacking submarines are still invisible in the HTML5 GUI.

can you send me a screenshot as well as user and game ID?

i guess you already know but there's a visual bug that includes the "Fire at will" icon to all unknown units

Arcorian wrote:

can you send me a screenshot as well as user and game ID?

you will have to wait a few days until the report is noticed.

Arcorian wrote:

dw98 wrote:

So now you can park a RR gun on a coastline and it will bombard any neutral surface unit passing within range?

If it is set to aggressive fire mode...It will trigger war with all those bombarded neutral nation, but yes.

.. since undeclared wars are rapidly reducing the reputation one can lure the careless firedevils into a trap by beeing attacked by them ..

WayneBo wrote:

Arcorian wrote:

can you send me a screenshot as well as user and game ID?

a screenshot and game number were included in the bug report.you will have to wait a few days until the report is noticed.

nemuritor98 wrote:

i guess you already know but there's a visual bug that includes the "Fire at will" icon to all unknown units

This new fire at will option has an amazing potential for abuse... Lets get started!

To clarify once more: If you want to set up a naval blockade with ranged units and you want them to bombard neutral units from a distance, you have to set their fire mode to "aggressive" (High Command only, and only for ranged units). If you want to set up a naval blockade by blocking the naval paths with ships or submarines, to prevent neutral armies from moving through, it is now enough to just place them there with their standard setting "fire at will" (free for everyone, standard setting of all units). 2 Armies with "fire at will" setting will automatically fight eachother when they meet, also on the water (usually the moving army attacks first and is thus the one triggering the war). But ranged weapons with "fire at will" won't bombard neutral units from afar, unless they are set to "aggressive".

nemuritor98 wrote:

i guess you already know but there's a visual bug that includes the "Fire at will" icon to all unknown units

I don't think it's a "visual" bug, it's more likely a "feature" bug. On one of my game, i moving my unprotected convoy near a neutral (computer) country shoreline to land elsewhere, and then while i was offline i'm somehow at war with them and the newspaper says i attacked them and my convoy was destroyed at sea. Please don't makes this an intended feature, it could lead many new players entered war from unintended consequences

like I said there are many ways to abuse this new feature

Arcorian wrote:

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Fire at will (standard Blocks and attacks close by neutral or enemy units, unless they have right of way.

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freezy wrote:

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If you want to set up a naval blockade by blocking the naval paths with ships or submarines, to prevent neutral armies from moving through, it is now enough to just place them there with their standard setting "fire at will" (free for everyone, standard setting of all units)

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.. or should grant at least RoW to all nations (also to all, at least maritime, players nations) as a precaution to avoiding inadvertent wars -- and thereby take the (rest)risk that RoW can provide for surprising and deep invasions "at night and fog" .. ?!? (..and not only at sea maybe, but also when neutral ground units meet somewhere in neutral territory..?)

freezy wrote:

To clarify once more: If you want to set up a naval blockade with ranged units and you want them to bombard neutral units from a distance, you have to set their fire mode to "aggressive" (High Command only, and only for ranged units). If you want to set up a naval blockade by blocking the naval paths with ships or submarines, to prevent neutral armies from moving through, it is now enough to just place them there with their standard setting "fire at will" (free for everyone, standard setting of all units). 2 Armies with "fire at will" setting will automatically fight eachother when they meet, also on the water (usually the moving army attacks first and is thus the one triggering the war). But ranged weapons with "fire at will" won't bombard neutral units from afar, unless they are set to "aggressive".

close enough to be identified or only close enough to know that someone is out there

this would also appy to arty on land