Yesterday I had a stack of attack helicopters patrolling in South Africa when my ally was attacked in Turkey. I re-routed my helicopters to Turkey to help my ally defend and counter attack. The helicopters immediately started moving to an intermediate air field in Egypt as a first hop to get to Turkey. When the helicopters were nearly at the intermediate airport, they suddenly turned around "returning to base to refuel". In case you are wondering, no, the air base was not destroyed.
I lost around 10 hours of time with the helicopters going mostly there, all the way back, and then there again.
This seems like a new bug coming from the recent changes to refueling aircraft. I assume my helicopters used some fuel while patrolling over South Africa. Then, when I re-routed them to Turkey, the game just checked the distance from the airport the helicopters were based out of to the intermediate airport in Egypt. Since that distance is in range for the helicopters, they went right away toward the Egypt airport. However, the fuel was not checked and the game sent them home when they were out of fuel 90% the way there.
This is no good for 2 reasons:
1. If my helicopters don't have the fuel to reach a destination, they should return to base to refuel before setting out... not 90% of the way there
2. If it's a ferry move, they can refuel at the destination... it's silly to go the longer distance back to the starting airport
Please fix!
I lost around 10 hours of time with the helicopters going mostly there, all the way back, and then there again.
This seems like a new bug coming from the recent changes to refueling aircraft. I assume my helicopters used some fuel while patrolling over South Africa. Then, when I re-routed them to Turkey, the game just checked the distance from the airport the helicopters were based out of to the intermediate airport in Egypt. Since that distance is in range for the helicopters, they went right away toward the Egypt airport. However, the fuel was not checked and the game sent them home when they were out of fuel 90% the way there.
This is no good for 2 reasons:
1. If my helicopters don't have the fuel to reach a destination, they should return to base to refuel before setting out... not 90% of the way there
2. If it's a ferry move, they can refuel at the destination... it's silly to go the longer distance back to the starting airport
Please fix!
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