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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001902 | FSSCP | --------- | public | 2009-03-25 19:30 | 2009-05-11 07:58 |
| Reporter | KeldorKatarn | Assigned To | Wanderer | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 3.6.9 | ||||
| Summary | 0001902: AI keeps attacking non-assigned ships | ||||
| Description | Bombers keep attacking non-assigned ships. If a bomber is assigned to attack ship A but is fired upon by capship B on its way there, it will attack capship B instead. This happens even though capship B is not on the bomber's goal list and despite dactivating "no-dynamic-goals" for both the bomber's wing and the bomber itself. This even happens if capship B is protected. The bomber will then not fire upon the ship but still fly towards it in an attack vector. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Can you provide a mission where this happens? Preferably something involving minimum number of ships required for the problem to appear. And also on basic FS data if possible. |
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I do not have retail FS2 but I can create a Saga mission yes. |
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Saga mission should be ok as well. |
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2009-04-03 14:49
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Mission attached. Bombers have orders to attack ship "Valid", which doesn't fire back. Nearby ship "Invalid" however does fire at the bombers. The bombers still have the goal to attack "Valid" (as visible above the target box) but turn towards and fire their weapons at "Invalid" instead. If "Invalid" is made protected, bombers do not fire at it, but still fly towards it as if they were attacking it, completely ignoring their original goal to attack "Valid". |
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Ok.. i see the problem in the code... Problem is that the function seem to do whole target swap more or less in exactly reversed order from anything that would make sense... |
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Is it easy to fix? |
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I changed both instances that try to set the 'jumped ships' to attack the cap ship that shot at them to first check if no dynamic goals flag was set. There were some commentary and other things which indicated that the function in question was supposed to have been used in conjunction with no dynamic goals flag.. It can be fixed.. still wondering if it should be fixed with the existing flag with slight possibility of having issues in earlier mods or to use new ai flags instead. |
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Please don't. If we keep flooding the game with flags just to always ensure 100% backwards compatibility even if that means keeping an obvious bug, soon nobody will have any idea what flags to activate anymore, let alone comprehend all the unnecessary fallback code. I think this is obviously an error and was never intended to work this way and might be quite harmful to several mods already without them knowing about it because usually this behavior is very hard to spot. |
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Quite probably so... However after discussing this with karajorma it seemed like best solution is not to implement a new flag for but also to delay fixing this bug until 3.6.10 final is released. |
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Well.. if it has to be done with a new flag.. can it be bound to ai_profiles.tbl instead? Too many flags in FRED will be incredibly confusing. Btw... this is considered a release breaker for WC Saga. |
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Fix for this issue added to trunk |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2009-03-25 19:30 | KeldorKatarn | New Issue | |
| 2009-03-31 07:37 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010785 | |
| 2009-04-01 22:08 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0010793 | |
| 2009-04-03 09:30 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010795 | |
| 2009-04-03 14:49 | KeldorKatarn | File Added: a_ai_test.fs2 | |
| 2009-04-03 14:51 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0010796 | |
| 2009-04-04 08:49 | Wanderer | Status | new => assigned |
| 2009-04-04 08:49 | Wanderer | Assigned To | => Wanderer |
| 2009-04-04 08:49 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010798 | |
| 2009-04-04 13:38 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0010799 | |
| 2009-04-04 14:05 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010800 | |
| 2009-04-04 14:10 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0010801 | |
| 2009-04-04 15:54 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010802 | |
| 2009-04-04 16:08 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0010803 | |
| 2009-05-11 07:58 | Wanderer | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2009-05-11 07:58 | Wanderer | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2009-05-11 07:58 | Wanderer | Note Added: 0010879 |
