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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0019477AI War 2Graphical BugJun 29, 2018 10:26 am
ReporterBadgerBadger Assigned ToBadgerBadger  
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version0.711 
Fixed in Version0.746 Disposing of the Invisible Man 
Summary0019477: Rally menu gets confused about Group IDs
DescriptionI have a couple Groups in this game. group 1 was originally my Ark, but I changed it to make the Ark 2 (by clicking my ark and hitting Ctl-2 and then clicking everything else and hitting Ctl-1). I've since added a few others. But when I go to the Rally menu to direct the Ark to send reinforcements to another group it looks really weird. It looks like the names aren't updating at all. F1 still seems to show the Ark name instead of the Botnet Golem (which it should be).
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related to 0019647 resolvedBadgerBadger Rallying to control group with strongest ship in motion should go to destination. 

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BadgerBadger

Mar 12, 2018 9:14 pm

manager  

ConfusedGroups.save (1,864,729 bytes)
confusedGroups.png (1,933,476 bytes)

Michael

Mar 13, 2018 10:36 am

administrator   ~0047137

Created Trello card.

Chris_McElligottPark

Jun 28, 2018 7:02 pm

administrator   ~0047607

Badger, how much of this still applies post-pivot and with the recent updates you made to implement the rally points?

BadgerBadger

Jun 29, 2018 12:15 am

manager   ~0047620

We don't have a rally menu that shows a group ID anymore ;-), so this is no longer an issue. What I did was to write all new code to create rally-to-point code. I just reused Keith's old Rally-To-Group code wholesale, which has an intriguing bug in it now, post pivot.

Rally-To-Group works by picking the strongest unit in the group and then rallying units to the strongest unit's WorldLocation. This worked fine when your groups were centered around flagships, which were stronger than any unit you might build. Unfortunately, in the post-pivot world, if you have a group of all fleetships but have a starship constructor that's rallying to that group, any starship that's built will immediately be the strongest unit in the group, so it will try to rally to its own location (and thus not go anywhere). Keith or I needs to provide a workaround eventually.

Chris_McElligottPark

Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am

administrator   ~0047622

Awesome, thanks! That makes perfect sense.

Just checked in:

* Fixed an issue where newly-created ships that were rallying into a control group could rally to themselves if they were suddenly the strongest ship in the control group.

But then added: 0019647

BADGER_TODO or KEITH_TODO: If the target entity that we are rallying to already has movement orders, then we should rally to its eventual destination, not its current one. This applies in particular to ships that would be rallying to something that was newly-created.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Mar 12, 2018 9:14 pm BadgerBadger New Issue
Mar 12, 2018 9:14 pm BadgerBadger File Added: ConfusedGroups.savemet
Mar 12, 2018 9:14 pm BadgerBadger File Added: ConfusedGroups.save
Mar 12, 2018 9:14 pm BadgerBadger File Added: confusedGroups.png
Mar 13, 2018 10:36 am Michael Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Mar 13, 2018 10:36 am Michael Status new => assigned
Mar 13, 2018 10:36 am Michael Note Added: 0047137
Mar 23, 2018 9:03 am Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To keith.lamothe => Chris_McElligottPark
Jun 28, 2018 7:02 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0047607
Jun 28, 2018 7:02 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To Chris_McElligottPark => BadgerBadger
Jun 28, 2018 7:02 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status assigned => feedback
Jun 29, 2018 12:15 am BadgerBadger Note Added: 0047620
Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Status feedback => resolved
Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => fixed
Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Fixed in Version => 0.746 Disposing of the Invisible Man
Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0047622
Jun 29, 2018 10:26 am Chris_McElligottPark Relationship added related to 0019647