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#3258855 - 04/04/11 05:16 AM Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions?  
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So I'm playing the taiwan campaign on the blue side (I think thats a vanilla campaign) and I get a lot of stuck supply missions where the supply helo will wait at waypoint Y indefinitely. If I take over and go to the next waypoint the mission is a success and all is well, but its annoying having to "unstick" all the supply missions. Also, there are a ton of transfer missions where I can select the mission, and a helicopter, but I can't confirm and fly the mission. Nothing happens when I click confirm. Sometimes it likes certain squadrons and I can select those but more times than not, it simply won't let me have any squadron fly it. Are there fixes for either of these?

#3258910 - 04/04/11 07:33 AM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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I think I've seen this happen if the pad that the supply helo was to land at is occupied. Not sure thought TBH.

#3259362 - 04/04/11 03:52 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Any idea on what to do about the transfer missions? those are a bigger deal to me, as I dont have enough blackhawks for insertion missions sometimes and I cant transfer any closer!

#3259980 - 04/05/11 12:24 AM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Ive read that some people believe that waypoint clutter can cause the problems you speak of. If your monitoring campaign progress between missions perhaps you could jump into the lead heli of important transfers, insertions etc, and do a quick waypoint edit to cull or re-arrange any waypoint clutter over the objective. Then jump out and fly a combat mission or what ever. Auto piloting the lead helicopter into its objective also assures you hit the mark. The target zone of the objective waypoint in lets say an insertion is from memory only 30m making it easy to over shoot and fail the mission or stall it at "Y".

#3260568 - 04/05/11 04:14 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Yeah that's what i've been doing; jumping into the stuck supply missions, hitting W to go to next waypoint, and jumping out. It appears to work fine, but its annoying having to do that. I still don't know how to make the transfers work... I hope this is an issue with just that campaign and not the entire game.

#4497162 - 11/14/19 06:13 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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I searched for supply to find a solution to my problem and found this.

I am not sure if the correct forum etiquette is to post here or to start a new thread.

Some forums I go to frown on bumping old threads.

Other frown on starting a new thread when there is one already even if it's 100 years old.

I have supply missions that get to Y and they just hover there.

I don't pay much attention to them because they are AI generated and I wouldn't waste actual flying time on them.

I do believe flying them does not count toward the pilot's flight hours to earn the 3 different Aviator wings.

But when I see there are sometimes even 10-20 of them in progress and that they have been running for as long as 2 hours, I click on them.

I have to take over and change their waypoint for them to continue.

Why do they get stuck at Y?

After I get them moving again they go to the next waypoint and then it's completed.

#4497273 - 11/15/19 04:13 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Don't worry about bumping an old thread, I suppose it stops anyone telling you to go an search the forums biggrin

Is this always happening on the same map? I haven'tplayed the game for a while, but I remember this happening whenIi used to play it. It seems like an old bug that noone's tried to fix.

Are they stuck at the last waypoint before landing?

Is the FARP / Airfield they're trying to land at full already?

If it happens again, can you check their destination, and see if there is a landing space?

#4497278 - 11/15/19 05:12 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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So far I only played the Taiwan campaign on Red.

They stuck at Y which is the objective that needs to be supplied.

Then after I manually change the WP, they go on to X or Z or Z and X and then through the rest of the alphabet, sometimes flying another 30 min to an hour, before they return to base.

Once I change the WP to get them unstuck from Y, they all get to the next WP and the next and to their base and land without any help.

They can be stuck at Y forever for all I care but sometimes I look over the list of available missions and missions in progress and I see 10-20 or more supply,

and then more supply on the big map that are not even on those 2 lists,

I just have to click them.

The supply in Taiwan is nuts.

I seen as many as 60 on the map unassigned waiting to be taken.

Using the mouse I X them out off the map but they add more faster than I can get rid of them.

#4497483 - 11/17/19 04:41 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Would you mind trying it on another map? If it's only a bug on that map for some reason, then it's not a bug overall.

Unless someone else has seen them stuck on other maps too?

I'll add it to the list of bugs to fix.

#4497498 - 11/17/19 06:26 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Okay,

I will start a blue game today Lebanon or Yemen, the stock maps.

#4498374 - 11/26/19 07:49 AM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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I played both Blue and Red in Lebanon and Yemen.

Yemen doesn't have that many supply missions and Lebanon have a few.

But none of them get stuck at Y like in Taiwan.

Also Taiwan is the only stock map that generate gazillion supply mission.

By the time I finish the Taiwan campaigns as Blue and as Red, they supply missions still being generated are numbered at over 3,600.

#4498415 - 11/26/19 06:36 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Ok, so it sounds like most of the problems might be to do with the Taiwan map.

A lot of the issues you've listed are long existing bugs since the original game, I think. They also sound tricky to investigate and fix, and there's not many devs working on it just now.

#4498567 - 11/28/19 03:26 AM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Thank you messyhead.

Sometimes I get the impression the team that did the Yemen and Lebanon map is not the team that did the Taiwan map.

A couple of stock features that were taken out by the modded version is you could see the explosions on the map.

I missed that and sometimes they come in helpful.

Also the ships did fire at the targets on the land when you call for artillery support.

#4601099 - 06/05/22 06:10 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Playing the Taiwan factory map, v 1.15.0

There was a supply mission that had a one hour duration and not moving at Y so like we discuss above, I go to help it unstuck.

what is this? 3 Apache in the same flight doing Supply.

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#4638043 - 11/05/23 07:12 PM Re: Stuck supply missions? Un-confirmable transfer missions? [Re: Shein]  
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Another supply mission using the wrong chopper.

In the Taiwan campaign again.

The only time I have come across this mistake is in the Taiwan campaign, the one that is with the game.

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