AI aircraft problems

SuperJoe · Commander **Joined**: 03 Sep 2009

I'm having some problems giving AI more helipads / aircraft than the default 4. First off, is there a way to make AI build more helipads, other than creating extra AI only helipads? I've tried to adjust HelipadRatio and HelipadLimit but neither one of them do anything. I did get the AI to build 10-12 helipads by creating 2 AI-only copies of the default helipads, but the problem is the AI aircraft get extremely buggy with these new helipads. They try to land on one, but half way down they fly back up, try to go down again, fly some circles, and repeat this forever or for a very long time, before landing on empty ground. All my aircraft have the AI-only helipads listed in their Dock list.

Here's a pic of the problem:

I tried adding the AI-only helipads to the BuildHelipad list, I even made AI-only aircraft that have nothing but the AI-only helipads listed in the Dock key, but neither solved the problem.

The only way I could get a somewhat working solution was to make AI build aircraft only after it has built both sets of the fake helipads, thus making all new aircraft appear directly on the helipad. But they can still get bugged in the air if they leave the helipad and try to return to it. Another annoying bug with AI-only helipads is that they give the AI free copies of aircraft due to the cloning bug.

Is there any way to increase the number of AI helipads without resorting to hacking? If not, can the AI-only helipads be made to without these side-effects? Or is there some other way to handle the problem?

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Allen · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:34 am Post subject:

I at wone time was using clone helipad and don recall this but I may have missed it.

You didn't change any thing about the clone helipad it self other than it has a pre=GAHPAD at Tech=-1?

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