4.12.2 de-bugging

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Maybe it's an old bug, but on QMB maps where one side only has aircraft carriers to land on (e.g., Hawaii, Coral Sea, Midway) non-carrier aircraft will still attempt to land on the carriers.

Maybe this is a QMB bug, maybe it's another AI glitch.

Either way, non-carrier aircraft should either be programmed to exit in the direction of the nearest historical friendly base or to ditch rather than landing.

Interestingly, carriers don't suffer damage from having heavy bombers crash land on them!

This is not a bug, it is how the mission waypoints for landing are utilized. If the template maker attaches the LANDING waypoint to a carrier all aircraft will attempt to land on the carrier. If the template maker attaches the LANDING waypoint to a land airfield all aircraft will land at that location.

There are 8 flights per side and each flight will always follow the same waypoints that are on the template that is loaded by the QMB. There is no variety to the waypoints that the planes will follow unless the template maker has made more than one template of the same mission and changes the waypoints for each flight. The template that is loaded will determine the waypoints that each flight will follow but every time that particular template is loaded you will get the waypoints that were used on that template, there is no variation done to those waypoints by the QMB.

I made the Hawaii and Midway templates for the QMB and made the choice to allow planes to land on the carriers since in older versions of the QMB prior to allowing the templates to be user created the planes would just land in the ocean since the LANDING waypoints were not attached to the carriers. I know it's not perfect but due to the limitations of the QMB I felt allowing the aircraft to land on the carriers was better than having them land in the ocean and sink. Unless a way can be made to allow for multiple LANDING options per flight that takes into consideration the type of aircraft that is using that set of waypoints then this will always be a choice that has to be made by the QMB template maker when it comes to allowing aircraft to land on the carrier.


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