I unloaded units from my army!

[pauli]

this worked great for me i unloaded all three cavalry from my army (manufactured from military academy) and nothing's gone wrong yet... granted, i'm only on the next turn

[Solver]

This is a bug I've had, too. And the army didn't fight as it should, and my Tanks were going all over the map, activating when already moved and such. I'll not transport full Armies ever again...

[Flight]

i did this a while ago as well, it seemed very strange to me
maybe i should have posted about it

[Thrawn05]

Forgive me if what I'm about to say may not make sense to those who do not or are new to programing....

It appears to me that Firaxis did a little oversight in their implementation of the Stack function. Since I don't have the scource code for Civ3 (), I can only guess of the worse possible scenario. My suggestion is that, if on your computer you tride this, and errors came in what ever form, then I suggest not to do this, since the error can leak to other areas of the program or wrose to other applications (hence, you get this: ).

I would be extremly curious of what Firaxis has to say about this, and weather or not it requires a massive recoding of Civ3, the requirment of removing the stack feature all together, or just a little try/catch statement that won't let you use the stack command when an Army in on the same tile (I would do that, it's easier , at least for a while, to give Firaxis some time to do a bug free version).

Until then, happy stacking!

[Flight]

lol nice smilies

[Spatzimaus]

All this fuss over the ability to unload units from armies. Ironic, since I just added that ability to armies in the editor for my own mod (just click on "Unload").

Basically I made three types of "Army".

Mob: no tech, holds 3 units, exerts ZoC, costs 300
Regiment: Feudalism, holds 4 units, also has Blitz and can unload, costs 400
Brigade: Nationalism, holds 5 units, also has Radar, costs 500

And they upgrade to each other, so you always have to go with the most recent (although I'm thinking of letting the last two co-exist). The way the Pentagon works is it just adds +1 to size. Since I removed the "victorious army" requirement from the Military Academy, it makes Industrial-era combat more of an Army-centered thing.

The AI is getting really good at using these, too. He'll always have at least one or two around, and when they attack they WILL do damage.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Spatzimaus
All this fuss over the ability to unload units from armies. Ironic, since I just added that ability to armies in the editor for my own mod (just click on "Unload").

Well I tried that and so have others, and it doesn't work. If yours is, you just got lucky.

PS I just tried it again, it doesn't work.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Flight
lol nice smilies

thanks, I found a site http://www.mysmilies.com/ , they have lots of them.

[Worthingtons]

ok, I've had several problems with the Army unload bug.


Once it crashed the game, as i said
Another time, when i went to activate the (now empty) army, one of it's former units (which was somewhere else on the map) was 'selected' instead.. this lead to a lot of confusion....
Finally, I now have tanks in my armies, they used to be Infantrymen, and while the Army is functioning ok, it 'appears' as Infrantymen still, and makes thier sounds in combat.

What does your Sig mean in English Thrawn??

[exeter0]

Same phenomena here.

Oh well... it was too good to be true! Back to dreaming about CTP2 stacked combat in CIV3.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Rothy
What does your Sig mean in English Thrawn??

Thrawn05 rules in Rome.

[Solver]

Thrawn05,

I know of programming and what you say makes sense. Should I get the source for Civ 3...

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Solver
Thrawn05,

I know of programming and what you say makes sense. Should I get the source for Civ 3...

Only of Firaxis releases it, which I dout anytime soon, since that is the very bread and butter of the game. It took Rebellion a few years to release the code for AvP (I think they did that last June-ish). ID software just released the code for their game Quake, which is God know how old last year as well.