first time I've seen this!!

Shaka Naldur · April 18, 2003, 14:26

this happened to me while playing red front
take a look at the screenshots, I promise they are real

Shaka Naldur · April 18, 2003, 14:28

and after killing the U-boat this is what happened

anybody knows what is going on here?

Six Thousand Year Old Man · April 18, 2003, 15:17

You sunk the U-boat and it turned into one of your own units? Weird. Never seen that before.

I'd guess it's an events.txt gone wrong - but that's just the vaguest guess. I know that often when one destroys a unit in RF, new ones spawn automatically. Maybe this is one of those events?

Definitely a good reason to save and reload.

rah · April 19, 2003, 02:33

Pretty funny, and I can honestly say, that I've never experienced it.

RAH

Rasbelin · April 19, 2003, 04:23

I assume STYOM is right. It looks like some of the settings of RF have been mixed up.

Shaka Naldur · April 19, 2003, 13:04

no, it is not because the events,
I put my unit there to sleep before, and then and the u-boat move there and didn't kill the unit, just move in the same square

a few turns before my ship was kill by a u-boat.

first time you see this?

Henrik · April 19, 2003, 13:11

Very, very strange.

I have a hard time believing it has to do with events though... Atleast not in the way suggested. It'd be more likely in that case that the game failed to realize that there was a unit there allready and spawned one on top if it in that case...
I don't think any units are supposed to spawn in that part of the atlantic though.

Smash · April 19, 2003, 15:24

I've seen something like this in a MP game where caravans were mysteriously sleeping in the middle of the ocean.
Can you activate and command the sleeping unit after the "incident"?

Cal · April 19, 2003, 19:29

Isn't that like that other bug in Red Front? The one that keeps the americans from advancing? They capture a german city, but the game thinks it belongs to the russians?

I have had a version of this bug happen to me: I left a frigate in the top-left most square, and a U-boat spawned on top of it. Once I moved the frigate, I could kill the u-boat with another unit. One time I didn't move the frigate at all, and the U-boat moved one square, killed the frigate, then went on.

No big deal. Certainly not game altering, unlike the thing with the americans...

conmcb25 · April 19, 2003, 22:44

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Originally posted by Cal
Isn't that like that other bug in Red Front? The one that keeps the americans from advancing? They capture a german city, but the game thinks it belongs to the russians?

I have had a version of this bug happen to me: I left a frigate in the top-left most square, and a U-boat spawned on top of it. Once I moved the frigate, I could kill the u-boat with another unit. One time I didn't move the frigate at all, and the U-boat moved one square, killed the frigate, then went on.

No big deal. Certainly not game altering, unlike the thing with the americans...

Yep I agree with Cal. I just had this happen to me in Red Front, a U Boat spawned from events on top of a cruiser. I killed the uboat with a destroyr and the Cruiser could move again. Very strange. You would think the unit could NOT spawn in a sqaure occupied by an enemy unit.

Shaka Naldur · April 20, 2003, 08:49

we could make a test, maybe in the sea square the units just appears via event no matter which units are in the spot

conmcb25 · April 20, 2003, 09:25

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
we could make a test, maybe in the sea square the units just appears via event no matter which units are in the spot

Thats my guess...........

greeny · April 20, 2003, 11:17

yes, I've seen exactly the same bug in Red Front Cal described, a u-boat being created in the extream top left tile, regardless of my units being there.
I had a similar weird bug in the "Up the deadly boot" scenario, where when I would move units into one of by cities I would attack my own units within it! Like the game thought it belonged to the enemy.

DarthVeda · April 20, 2003, 13:42

Uh... does this seem a bit contrived to anybody else? How is it you knew to take a screenshot before this "weird" event happened?

Shaka Naldur · April 20, 2003, 16:14

don't be so suspicious darthveda
i'm playing red front
i save every turn and when it happened to me i reload to take the screenshots,
i can look for the *.sav file if you want

our_man · April 24, 2003, 07:19

Shaka, I've seen this before too. The only thing I'm not too sure of is whether it occurs because of the terrain type the unit is created on (ocean) or the domain of the unit (sea).

If I remember correctly there was an event in 2194days where the Americans got a transport in a particular city every turn - however if you captured the city the transport would still be created and could thus be disbanded for an extra few shields.

Shaka Naldur · April 24, 2003, 14:55

I don't think it is an event this time, I don´t think the ai has a u-boat via event..

Kaptain Ken · April 25, 2003, 11:22

It is a creat unit event which is not supposed to happen to an occupied square but does hapen regularly in sea squares.

Shaka Naldur · April 25, 2003, 12:48

I've just checked, a u-boat is creat via events everyturn in the same square my ship went to slep (12,4)

didn´t know the ai had u-boats via event