Spread attack on Air staging facilities

[wasdf]

Is it possible to implement the spread attack command on air staging facilities? Atm they are nice to have for patrolling aircraft, but i think it would be nice if you could use spread attack on air staging to effectively repair and refuel large groups of aircraft (especially T3). Maybe it could also be implemented on transports, altough this isnt very important since now they will load one by one.

[Ceneraii]

If I'm not mistaken there's a refuel&repair button you can press to have all selected aircraft go and get themselves fixed up.

The aircraft will go to staging facilities, spread themselves evenly and start getting repaired and refueled, once done they land close to it, although I do think there are some pathing issues with it, sometimes they stick around infinitely on a pad.

[wasdf]

I'm sorry, wasn't aware of this functionality (i thought i already read quite some stuff about the game). I Always tried to do it manually. Thanks for the tip though!

[Exotic_Retard]

refueling can definitely be improved: while refueling, an asf swarm takes a long time to do so since each staging facility can only fuel one at at time - and all the planes that haven't fueled yet, they just fly around and waste more fuel. if some are out of fuel, they take ages to land and hold the whole line up. great.

not that you even need to refuel them, but its very inefficient atm.


also planes don't really auto refuel, you need to always remember to press the button, which is annoying. would be interesting if some mod (/me looks at washy) was to just check planes for low fuel/hp and send them back on its own. but it might also be annoying in some cases

[The Mak]

A relevant post.

Ceneraii mentioned that after the aircraft refuel they will land or hover near the air staging platforms. You can issue a shift-move order after you hit the UI button for the aircraft to go to the nearest air staging platform. This way you can have all your aircraft rally to a location after they have all refueled/repaired. You can issue any order, not just a move command. So you can have them enter a patrol pattern or go attack a target, for instance. Just make sure the aircraft are still selected and hold the shift key to issue the orders.

Another good use of this is having the dock order as part of a sequence of orders. Let's say a bomber is in enemy air space. With your aircraft selected hold shift, target the bomber then click on the dock icon, then click a move command to rally the aircraft back to where your air factories rally the new aircraft. The survivors of the attack will be good as new and be at a convenient location for you to select them again.

[rxnnxs]

also planes don't really auto refuel, you need to always remember to press the button, which is annoying. would be interesting if some mod (/me looks at washy) was to just check planes for low fuel/hp and send them back on its own. but it might also be annoying in some cases

with don't really i guess you know that they fly back when inside the blue radius of the air staging facility.
maybe increase this range or make it possible to change the radius somehow ingame.
i would also like a bigger radius. it would be nice, if that radius could be a polygon that can be painted..

besides this,
i did not look for a long time at the behavior of the planes, but i know when i last watched, all hangars were used. so simultaneously 4 planes are refuelled. maybe its different for different techs... i can not try it out because i am at work.

[speed2]

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[Ceneraii]

also planes don't really auto refuel, you need to always remember to press the button, which is annoying. would be interesting if some mod (/me looks at washy) was to just check planes for low fuel/hp and send them back on its own. but it might also be annoying in some cases

They do, they also auto repair, but they have to be set on patrol within range of the refueling station and it's a bit iffy when they decide to do it, if I'm not mistaken they will when they are at 66% hp or fuel before going back.