Evacuation Procedures

[Sidargo]

Hi all,

Im quite a newbie to BC3000AD (2.09 freeware downloaded on thursday).

I had one of my interceptors downed during an attack on an insurgent base. It was severly damaged and shot down short time ago. I then laid waste on the base and then went to locate my pilots.

In the manual it says, downed pilots are auto-marked for evacuation. I switched to planet tacops and opened the menu. Evac was not lit up. The manual says, to mark a team or person for evac, ctrl+leftclick it, and I did that, still evac didnt light up.

on that part, some information about how the tacops looks like for me when i try this:

planet surface with 2 pilot models on it, each encased by a grey box with a little white cross in it. if i ctrl+leftclick one of the boxes, the cross appears/disappears. The boxes emit a blue circle in regular intervals (emergeny beacon i figure).

Since I thought not being able to evacuate the pilots using the transport could be a result of there severe injuries (who knows in this game, you always get surprised how realistic it is), I thought I might only be able to evacuate them using a shuttle.

So i packed 2 pilots in a shuttle and followed the instructions in the manual. I encountered the waypoint below surface problem, so I made sure the waypoints were set above the surface. I had set 2 wps, one being "proceed to next" which should ensure that the shuttle approaches wp2 in an acceptable angle, the second WP being extract team. I tried this twice, once with the white crosses inside the grey boxes, one time without. the shuttle passes by, returns and the pilots are still on their location.

So my 2 questions are: how do i evac my pilots using either shuttle or transporter, and what is the purpose of the white crosses ? I just cant figure that out myself, and I know that there are many experienced players here.

I could simply drop an OTS and clone them, but they are at 50% AI - and i dont want to loose that

Oh yeah... am I the only one who talks to his crew ? My g/f said I look like a mental patient playing that game, looking at persscan and crying KILL HIM when a Marine finds a Intruder Or I keep shouting at Paul : SHUT UP ! SHUT THE **** UP !!! ))

6 days and im already addicted.

Longest Lifetime yet: 26 hours (~ 10 Stormcarriers took me down before I could evacuate ...)

Thx in advance for helping me and thx to the SC for this immersing game universe !

[Guest]

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Oh yeah... am I the only one who talks to his crew ? My g/f said I look like a mental patient playing that game, looking at persscan and crying KILL HIM when a Marine finds a Intruder Or I keep shouting at Paul : SHUT UP ! SHUT THE **** UP !!! ))

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ROFLMAO!! NO, you're not the only one, My wife made me move her computer to another room, she couldn't handle me yelling at the computer when some marine got smacked by an intruder trapped in a shuttle, or me yelling at Resnig, I really cussed that boy out!! LOL

[Papi]

If you can't evac then check in Logistix -> power that transporter has power turned on.

The cross should be on before you can evac team.

Did you try to extract team manually with the shuttle?

And yes, I think we all yell at Paul, he's sometimes real pain in the ***. I'm too a fan of pescan, yelling orders to my "Big&Stupid" group of marines who don't give a damn what I'm sayin.