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ships won't stay in formation (Read 527 times)

Mar 22^nd, 2007 at 12:39am

burninator Offline
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I've got a mission with a large convoy of ships set into a formation (highlight each ship, then press ctl+alt+f). The lead ship is a cruiser, all the "non combat" ships have guns added to make them combat ships. All the waypoints are set to "do not evade".

The ships still all scatter when the mission starts and I attack. Am I missing something?

*okay - so I went back in and found that it was only the merchant ships doing it, and then I went back in and deleted the CDP file and they work now. But, I'm confused why I had to do this, since I deleted the cdp files when I first updated the dp's.

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Reply #1 - Mar 26^th, 2007 at 2:28am

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Any time you change a DP file and save it, you must delete the CDP file. It will rewrite itself when the new DP runs the first time. Sounds like you added guns to some ships in the DP file without deleting the CDP afterward.

Also, when you make changes to a ship or aircraft that is used in an existing MIS file, you need to resave the MIS file in MB for the changes to take effect. Why? MB and MIS files 'remember' certain information from the DP/CDP.

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Reply #2 - Mar 26^th, 2007 at 2:30am

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Also remember that all ships, like aircraft are acting on the settings for the NEXT WP as soon as they leave the current WP. So you need to have the next WP set at DO NOT EVADE, as well as the current one.

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