miscellaneous aircraft behaviour fixes and improvements

[Google_Frog]

This would be quite handy. Currently at least xta is bugged by the fact that most aircraft stop too soon after engaging their targets, or if target disappears.

They stop attacking if their target disappears because there was a change to how long units track disappeared targets. I think the new timer is a bit too short because it ends up breaking runs or bomber attacks if you lose contact for a few seconds. This is the kind of thing that should be configurable.

[FLOZi]

This would be quite handy. Currently at least xta is bugged by the fact that most aircraft stop too soon after engaging their targets, or if target disappears.

They stop attacking if their target disappears because there was a change to how long units track disappeared targets. I think the new timer is a bit too short because it ends up breaking runs or bomber attacks if you lose contact for a few seconds. This is the kind of thing that should be configurable.

+1 this breaks S44 and MCL too

[Silentwings]

+1 to that from me too

edit: a TargetDropped(unitID, targetID, x, y, z) callin, where x,y,z is the last known location of the targetID would enable games to handle this themselves.

[Jools]

This would be quite handy. Currently at least xta is bugged by the fact that most aircraft stop too soon after engaging their targets, or if target disappears.

They stop attacking if their target disappears because there was a change to how long units track disappeared targets. I think the new timer is a bit too short because it ends up breaking runs or bomber attacks if you lose contact for a few seconds. This is the kind of thing that should be configurable.

Yes, that but also after successfully having destroyed a target they stop instantly, often in enemy territory.

[Silentwings]

Yes, that but also after successfully having destroyed a target they stop instantly, often in enemy territory.

If they have no further orders then not carrying out any further orders is the expected behaviour.

(and if you want "auto-return to safe ground if idle after killing target", make a widget/gadget to give the order).

[Jools]

I think you missed the word "instantly" in my post. It's not possible for aircraft to stop as if hitting an invisible wall, and it's certainly not the expected behaviour.

[Silentwings]

If that really happens "instantly" (which I've never seen and can't reproduce) you should mantis it with a demo.

[Google_Frog]

I think you missed the word "instantly" in my post. It's not possible for aircraft to stop as if hitting an invisible wall, and it's certainly not the expected behaviour.

This is just because your brake rates are set incorrectly. https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... f4ca63a198

[Jools]

I am aware of that change, however setting the brakerates accordingly by a factor of 10 did no difference, only a factor 100 seemed to do any difference. And it affects the acceleration rates and turnradiuses as I already wrote in the earlier post.

[Silentwings]

There were multiple commits with many changes to aircraft movement (a year ago, too long ago for details/links) and it was said at the time that it was more than just a matter of multipliers.

Afaics the breakrate, turnrate, acceleration tags currently do exactly what they are supposed too.

[Google_Frog]

This would be quite handy. Currently at least xta is bugged by the fact that most aircraft stop too soon after engaging their targets, or if target disappears.

They stop attacking if their target disappears because there was a change to how long units track disappeared targets. I think the new timer is a bit too short because it ends up breaking runs or bomber attacks if you lose contact for a few seconds. This is the kind of thing that should be configurable.

+1 this breaks S44 and MCL too

There should be a feature request for configurable target loss time. I would be happy with a number in modrules but going further with a per-unit setting or some sort of lua interaction would be better.

Perhaps this is just a problem for aircraft and they need some way to move towards the last place they saw the target and re-aquire it if they see it again. With a target lost callin this would be nice to implement in a gadget.

[Jools]

The problem is that the order is (silently) dropped. That should never happen. Maybe the attack order should be converted to a move one in case the target disappears.