Skill issues
Transport-behaviour
If you change the drop location at the last moment close to where your transport currently is then it takes longer to drop. If you don't change the drop location then it'll drop as fast as it should.
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hmm.. then my feeling might just have been wrong there.. I'll try to leave the commands as long as possible and keep an eye on that. tyty!
@thewheelie said in Transport-behaviour:
If you change the drop location at the last moment close to where your transport currently is then it takes longer to drop. If you don't change the drop location then it'll drop as fast as it should.
But on Ozone it will still drop shit at the wrong island...
I now usually drop in the water... at least it won't fly on it's own to the other side of the sea...
@jcvjcvjcvjcv Yeah that's mostly due to the terrain. The factions also behave differently there, e.g. on the Map "Pyramid" there is the small plateau with one mex at the top. As far as I know only Aeon can drop it since the other factions need a "larger" drop location.
Same for Ozone Island, I remember the map having more hills on some islands, since transports don't drop on them they keep dropping somewhere else. A fix for that is (if you have time) to try to drop at location X, if the transport wants to fly away, give it a new command to a nearby location on the island. Repeat that after it finally drops.
I can also be wrong though, not 100% sure with that
Since we are discussing transports, how do I load a lot of units to a lot of transports fast? Because SHIFT+RMB - like in other RTS games - does not work.
@melanol said in Transport-behaviour:
Since we are discussing transports, how do I load a lot of units to a lot of transports fast? Because SHIFT+RMB - like in other RTS games - does not work.
The ferry command is probably your best bet. Select a lot of transports, move them to the pickup spot, click "ferry" in the lower left, then your dropoff spot. Optionally, hold shift before the last click to add waypoints.
Once the transports settle at the pickup spot, the "ferry" icon will appear on the ground where they are located.
You can then select as many units as you want and order them to move to the ferry icon and they will automatically be transported.
Also optionally, do it with only one transport, then set others to assist the ferry icon once it appears.
Also, if you set transports to assist factories, they will transport units to the factory's destination.
I believe there is also a selection mod that will load many units into many transports without using the ferry command, but I don't recall what it is at the moment.