few questions

Awesomesause175 wrote:

if units are moving but not in combat do they regenerate morale/hp

Awesomesause175 wrote:

if enemy units come in range of ranged units ie artillary or battleships, will they automatically attack the enemy units and will it get the attacking or defending stats?

Awesomesause175 wrote:

do spies get paid throughout the day or at day change, is there a difference between keeping my spies working constantly or only turning them on lose to day change to lower cost it they get paid over time

MontanaBB wrote:

I believe the daily upkeep is deducted incrementally during the day.

The spies are a distrustful bunch. They hold their hand out at day change and ask for their pay. If you pay them you get their report. Of course some days the report is just a blank sheet of paper, but you had to pay for it before you could find that out.

There does not seem to be a method of reducing the pay for a useless spy. In most countries spies that took their salary and provided zero results would be executed, but alas that is not an option, lol.

MontanaBB wrote:

A ground unit will regain strength at each daily update equal to 15% of the then-current damage of the unit, provided they are located on the territory of their parent country. It does not matter whether they are in motion.

I do wonder if the random amount of healing may be based in part on the morale of the province, but have never seen that theory discussed.

VorlonFCW wrote:

I am sorry I believe you are incorrect here Montana. I found this out when I did a lot of trading on the market just before day change one day and did not have enough cash to pay the spies, so they left my service.

VorlonFCW wrote:

Also I believe the morale of the province they are located in needs to be good. As in a just captured 25% morale province will not allow healing.

Awesomesause175 wrote:

2:if enemy units come in range of ranged units ie artillary or battleships, will they automatically attack the enemy units and will it get the attacking or defending stats?

There are of course the "fire control" settings that are available to High Command users. These are quite useful if you want to make good use of these units. I typically leave them on the "aggressive" setting, which allows them to pause a 'march" order in order to attack units they encounter at range.

WIth the "Fire at Will" setting they will carry out a march order until they bump into an enemy or reach the end of their march. This is the default setting, and the only setting available to non high command subscribers.

It is sometimes handy to get your units to hold fire and retreat, giving you time to move other units into position if the enemy charges at you. You can also use that to advance and then bombard again at the next hour interval from a closer location.

MontanaBB wrote:

the master of esoteric game mechanics in odd situations is @Restrisiko. I suggest you ping him.

I don't have a Bat Signal, but maybe this will do?

Heh.

I have a buddy from grad school who had remarkable success picking up girls with the line "I'm Batman!"

I guess you had to be there.

Apparently I was mistaken. In this thread:

https://forum.callofwar.com/index.php?thread/14485-new-buildings-please-read/&postID=117939&highlight=healing#post117939

Restrisiko wrote:

The morale of the provinces or to place an unit in a fortifications has no influence for healing.

The provincial morale connection to healing does seem to be tossed in occasionally though in help chat. Rumors outlive truth it seems.

VorlonFCW wrote:

I found this out when I did a lot of trading on the market just before day change one day and did not have enough cash to pay the spies, so they left my service.

As far as healing goes, read Restrisiko's post Vorlon linked above; he explained things perfectly, there.

Since the link between province morale and unit healing keeps surfacing, particularly in game help chat by staff today, I did an experiment today.

I had a group of 3 tactical bombers with slight damage, showing 88% condition, or 21.9 hit points.

I split them up, sending one each to provinces with 100% morale, 43% morale, and 27% morale.

After day change each one of them had 89% condition, and 22.3 hit points, which works out to exactly 15% of the damage being healed.

For the complete math:

I know it is a small experiment, but it proves to me that province morale has no effect on healing, even though I have spread the rumor to the contrary.