bomber paratrooper bug

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at indiegamedesign dot com>]

In standard Xconq it seems that infantry get picked up and co-opted by
bombers willy nilly.  I think they get picked up whenever the infantry
are asleep, even though I really just want them to guard the town I've
left them in.  Also I'm not sure, but I think they just got picked up
when I was trying to move around on the battlefield.  Anyways it was all
rather clumsy and unexpected / undesired.

There really should be separate "wait for transport" or "wait for
airlift" commands.  "Sleeping" is not synonymous with these.  This is
the bane of some other games too, I think Call To Power II had this
problem.  Freeciv also does some irritating things this way.

I also accidentally found I could Disembark a bomber from a town, which
is very strange.  If it doesn't matter tactically, it's confusing.  If
it does matter tactically, why include such a picky detail?

Has anyone ever implemented a "Patrol" command, with waypoints?  This
was very useful in ancient games like Strategic Conquest (although it
only had point-to-point patrols, not waypoints).  I don't see how you'd
patrol the oceans for incoming ships any other way.  It's way too
tedious to do it manually.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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