Engineer Attack Move Not Reclaiming

[Pope_Melvin]

Hey Guys,

Every now and then attack moves with my engineers cease to work. The engineer simply moves to the attack waypoint and then becomes idle (whilst there is still plenty of reclaimable stuff around). It seems to only happen with terrain (ie not wrecks). It drives me f***ing insane.

What am I doing wrong?

[Lame]

your mass storage is full

[Aurion]

Also a possibility is that there is no reclaim at the end of the Attack Move command if you do it from a factory. For some reason if you do Attack Move from a factory engineers sometimes move to the end and then start reclaiming (don't know if this is normal behavior actually).

[Adraius]

Also a possibility is that there is no reclaim at the end of the Attack Move command if you do it from a factory. For some reason if you do Attack Move from a factory engineers sometimes move to the end and then start reclaiming (don't know if this is normal behavior actually).

It is. An attack-move order from a factory will cause engineers from the factory to move to the end of the attack-move order, then reclaim everything in a large radius, without moving. They basically get long range reclaim beams, which is much more efficient than having to trundle around as per normal. It's useful on large maps with forests and enough free eco to afford a fac devoted just to engis. I think it's glitch, but considering how much of a PITA reclaiming can be, it's considered kosher to use. There's a 'reclaim painter' mod ( the thread is around here somewhere...) that would go a long way to making this, and normal reclaiming, for that matter, obsolete, but I'm unsure how ready it is for prime time.