How does TS aircraft work?

cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

In TS aircraft being built flies from outside map to the helipad if the helipad is captured by another aircraft. Is it possible to reproduce this in YR? I always got that it switches to on-hold at about 40% built if all pads are captured.

TAK02 · Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 11:55 am Post subject: Re: How does TS aircraft work?

cxtian39 wrote:

In TS aircraft being built flies from outside map to the helipad if the helipad is captured by another aircraft. Is it possible to reproduce this in YR? I always got that it switches to on-hold at about 40% built if all pads are captured.

I remember testing this out myself.

Here's what you did wrong: first, you need the aircraft you want to build be listed under PadAircraft in General. Tho it doesn't have to be.

Second, each aircraft in question will need AirportBound=no. This is the single and most crucial change because in TS, AirportBound (both the flags AND the mechanics) didn't exist in TS.
And since we got AirportBound, there never have been any Aircraft spawned off-map except for some paradrop planes and Boris MiGs.

cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

So every aircraft needs to get rid of AirportBound? That's not what I want.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 10:59 pm Post subject:

Built aircraft cant be made to fly in from off screen like in TS. the logic was changed in RA2 & aircraft now require an empty pad to be built.

Even if you remove AirportBound you would need to manually move the aircraft off the pad(s) to build more of them.

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Virgil · Stealth Laser Trooper **Joined**: 22 Jul 2018

As Mig Eater said the logic was changed, however if you order a plane to leave its pad, new AirportBound=no one can be built with no problem, and it can fly in from off screen if the pad will be occupied by the one returning. It seems that the game actually only check if there is a pad with no aircraft landed on it, no matter if it will be used by another one.

cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

I tested too.
If a AirportBound=no aircraft is blocking the pad, newly built AirportBound=no aircraft will fly in from off screen like in TS.
If a AirportBound=yes aircraft is blocking the pad, newly built AirportBound=no aircraft will switch to "On Hold" state about 40% into the construction process and never completing.

In conclusion, you can't have both AirportBound=no and AirportBound=yes aircraft at the same time. Have to pick the TS way or Ra2 way they can't intermix and they work fine independently.

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silverwind · Cyborg Firebomber **Joined**: 11 Jun 2016

How about a non-user controllable, AirportBound=no free-unit to serve as a place holder in the pad. Would that force all newly created AirportBound=no aircraft to fly in from off screen?

TAK02 · Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 3:46 pm Post subject:

In general, any non-AirportBound aircraft docked with the pad so that there are no more free pads will force all other newly purchased non-AirportBound aircraft to fly in from the corner.

Not sure how free-unit would factor into that, tho. FreeUnit might have the issue of the aircraft not auto-docking with the pad.
The only way I can think of is to make that FreeUnit AirportBound.
I think you can combine RA2's and TS's mechanics to an extent, in that non-AirportBound aircraft spawn off-map if there are no docks available, but AirportBound ones won't finish building if there are no free docks.

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