Air factory

Oh my.. I so wish airpads would only reload and not repair planes.

no. the units stays there till reloaded and repaired or till the factory/airpad is killed.

speed it up: repair assist the plane/gunship.

tip: set repairing unit to repeat mode (green circle) and then draw a repair circle just at the position where the plane lands (on fac, airpad), so this repairing unit does nothing else than speed up the repairs. (if your repeated repair circle does not cover the airfactory's building spot, it will really only repair at the repair spot)

not at the moment. i guess this is legacy behaviour. feel free to code it, this is opensource ;)

I thought there was some setting of leaving the airpad at a specific repair level, but I never figured out if it worked or not. It was one of the state commands of the aircraft similar to the retreat level; except it was something about when to leave an airfield.

Pretty sure this is due to hardcoded engine behaviour. We might be able to do something though one way or another... I'm all for it.

I would like to have it balanced with "you risk to lose it if you use it faster".

I though there were 2 retreat things for planes, not one to pull it off faster.

quote: tip: set repairing unit to repeat mode (green circle) and then draw a repair circle just at the position where the plane lands (on fac, airpad), so this repairing unit does nothing else than speed up the repairs. (if your repeated repair circle does not cover the airfactory's building spot, it will really only repair at the repair spot)

But if a damaged bomber fly only over this area it can happen that the pad trys to repair a damaged bomber out of it's own range and will remain stuck forever (until you cancel manually).

I wish you could order nanos to do:
* queue ALT+repairCircle (c1)
* queue ALT+repairCircle (c2)
and the nanos would do c1 when they can, c2 if they can't do c1 AND automatically cancel c2 if there is a new possibility in c1.

Also I really dislike that you can't really differentiate between repair and build (only with area-selection).

What is a bug? We could probably make a button that causes planes to lift off early but it is a reasonable partial cost for damaging planes.

If anyone wants to have a go at this write a gadget which adds a button to do this (the command type is the same as CMD.WAIT):

• Store plane health.
• Set health to full.
• Detect the plane leaving the pad, when it does this give it damage equal to the amount healed in the second step.
• Write an exception in the minimap events widget.
• Write a widget to give this command to planes if a command is given and landed planes are the only thing selected.

I swear there is a button to choose how much you want the plane to be repaired.....

quote: button to choose how much you want the plane to be repaired

It's the health threshhold at which planes seek to land, they heal up to max regardless of this