All done now! Cheers!
Tips: for unloading transports
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You don’t follow the transport instructions exactly, you might find your units “stuck” on the transport.
To “fix” this.
- Left-click the transport
- This brings up the dossier in the lower left
- Left-click the unit on the transport
- Right-click on the territory to unload into
To reproduce the “stuck” condition
- Left click transport
- Right click a unit to load
- Left click the transport again
If for some reason you want to leave 1 unit on the transport, it appears that you’re out of luck.
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I like all the hard work put into the game but I’m having some issues especially around transports.
- Left-click transport.
- Right-click a territory to move it
- Left-click a unit to pick up … oops, wrong mouse button
- Left-click transport
- Right-click unit, huh? Nothing happened
- Cancel the transport move
- Repeat steps 1-2
- Left-click a unit to pick up … oops, dammit, I did it again
- Cancel the transport move
- Cry a little
- Repeat steps 1-2
- Left-click unit to pick up
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Thanks for the feedback! We’ll surely look for ways to further polish the experience.
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Warning: TL;DR Post with a lot of Programming Mumbo-Jumbo
If I can provide a recommendation, why not try having units move into SZs containing Transports, rather than having Transports need to click units to load them.Implementing the logic would be a bit trickier, sure, but it’d probably go something like (pseudo-coded out the wazoo):
landunit{
…
move(){
…
if(destinationTile.type() == “Sea”){
if(destinationTile.canLoad(this){
//Prompt the player to select a Transport to be loaded.
}
else{
//Prevent the unit from moving.
}
}
}
…
}And, in a separate area that handles the logic for individual tiles on the map:
seaTile extends Tile{
…
canLoad(LandUnit unit){
result = false;
List<Units> units = this.getUnits();
for(i = 0; i < units.size(); i++){
if(units.get(i).getType() == “Transport”){
if(((transport) units.get(i)).canLoad(unit)){
result = true;
}
}
}
return result;
}
…
}And later, in the area that handles the Transport:
Transport extends NavalUnit{
…
canLoad(LandUnit unit){
if(unit.getType() == “Infantry”){
if(this.getCargo.size() < 2){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
//Unit attempting to be loaded is ART/TANK/AA Gun
else{
if(this.getCargo.size() < 2 && !(this.getCargo().contains(“ART”) || this.getCargo().contains(“TANK”) || this.getCargo().contains(“AA Gun”))){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}
}
…
}Wow, the formatting is terrible for code-blocks on here. I guess the forum software likes cutting leading spaces.
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@djensen I can’t make it work correctly especially for later game Allied moves when I have 10+ transports
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Question about transport loading/unloading
I’m playing test games to get accustomed to the interface. I want to load 1 inf from India onto trn in sz35 then move trn to sz34, load inf from Persia and drop both inf into Egypt. I can’t figure out how to make that happen. The rules allow this as long as trn has enough movement points… Help?
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Left-click the transport then it’s all right-clicks. If you left-click again, it’s best to just start over from scratch. I’ve been doing this a lot lately with transports.
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I think there is a “bug” if you have a stack of transports and a stack on infantry. They get loaded like this
2 transport and 4 infantry
transport a <- 1st inf
transport b <- 2nd inf
transport a <- 3rd inf
transport b <- 4th infIt’s a convenience for some situations but inconvenient for most others.
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@djensen @rem400 Left-click transport. Right-click the infantry. Right-click the SZ34. Right-click the infantry in Persia. Right-click Egypt.
If you have a stack of transports and a stack on infantry, keep right-clicking infantry, they’ll load. You can also open the dossier and pick each transport individually to be able to see what is loaded where.
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@JuliusBorisovBeamdog It works but the dossier can get a little fidgety. I still have not gotten the hang of it. For me, if I accidentally left-click along the way, I just start from scratch. Sometimes I’ll reset an entire region of the board just to see what is happening.
Also, this is a tough one. I wish I had some suggestions for making it better. Generally speaking I like the new way but I keep making mistakes (esp with transports). At least the reset is super quick now. Shift-Right-Click for the win!