0014306: Smuggle In Resistance Fighters is painful, un-fun, and didn't have a visible effect - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0014306	The Last Federation	Gameplay Issue		Apr 20, 2014 3:39 pm	Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am

Reporter	GC13	Assigned To	keith.lamothe
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.001 (Bugfixes, Large Screen Resolution Support)
Fixed in Version	1.005 Beta (Holy Smokes It's Big)

Summary	0014306: Smuggle In Resistance Fighters is painful, un-fun, and didn't have a visible effect
Description	This mission took me roughly two hundred fifty turns to complete after I had destroyed all opposition. The AI of the troop carriers is very bad, wanting to follow me but worried about colliding with me so I have to fly well away from the drop zone to lead them into it. Their turning AI will often overcompensate, meaning I have to scramble to move so that by moving towards me they'll be moving towards the drop point. Their AI should either be improved to move towards the drop point independently once the fighting is over, or the mission should automatically end in success once all enemies are defeated, and all surviving troop carriers counted as delivered. Finally, landing ten troop carriers full of Skyllaxians on a world that the Peltians took from the Thoraxians but then surrendered to the Acutians didn't seem to have any effect (except maybe depressing population growth?) despite there only being one million inhabitants at the time of the mission. There was no way to check that there was insurgent activity going on or anything, not even an "Active Insurgents amount" value on the detailed planet info.
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Internal Weight	New

Zulgaines Apr 20, 2014 9:35 pm reporter ~0036346	This is seriously the most obnoxious mission in the game and even comes with a disappointing outcome. Totally agree.

keith.lamothe Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am administrator ~0036637	For 1.005: === "Smuggle In Resistance Fighter" Overhaul === * Now instead of the troop ships following you in pairs (with the others basically doing nothing until the previous pair either makes it through or dies), all 10 troop ships will be active from the start. * Rather than following you, the troop ships beeline towards the drop zone. They use a sort of "follow the leader" movement so they don't all clump up to make one big target. * Fixed some bugs where the "if a side is in situation X, all that side's ships should go on the attack" logic was interfering with the troop transports. * Fixed a bug where you could not select a technically-dead race (no planets left) for the mission, even if that race had pirate bases to supply the troops. * Fixed a bug where some "attack target offset" logic added way after the smuggle-resistance contract was making the troop transports go very strange places. Thanks :)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Apr 20, 2014 3:39 pm	GC13	New Issue
Apr 20, 2014 9:35 pm	Zulgaines	Note Added: 0036346
Apr 20, 2014 9:52 pm	Azurian	Relationship added	parent of 0014290
Apr 23, 2014 6:32 pm	GC13	Relationship added	has duplicate 0014520
Apr 23, 2014 9:47 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> keith.lamothe
Apr 23, 2014 9:47 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => assigned
Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am	keith.lamothe	Internal Weight	=> New
Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am	keith.lamothe	Note Added: 0036637
Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am	keith.lamothe	Status	assigned => resolved
Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am	keith.lamothe	Fixed in Version	=> 1.005 Beta (Holy Smokes It's Big)
Apr 24, 2014 9:51 am	keith.lamothe	Resolution	open => fixed