Marines set to Evac instead of SAD (edited)

[Serondal]

I've treid searching for this across the forum but I've had no luck what so ever in finding. I seem to having a technical problem with my Tacops computer in that after I transport my marines down to the planet I can't give them general orders! I tell them to search and destroy, instead it gives them the halt command and marks them for Evac! (If this is meant to be I'm sorry for posting in the wrong place but I don't see how this could be meant to be) I'm running RC30 with all the previous patchs it requires from a fresh install.

To recreate the problem I've done the following.

1. prep 8 marines for combat

2. Send Marines to the transporter room

3. Transport them down to a hostile city or mbase.

4. Zoom in on tacops to all your marines standing there like idiots.

5. Open their command menu and give them the order to search and destroy.

Now that SHOULD make them run around blowing up everything correct? Instead it marks them for Evac and they still stand there doing nothing. I don't see how this could be an AI issue because it has nothing to do with the marines, and more to do with the tacops (I think) They work fine if I give them orders to attack a certain building or object but that would become tedious after they split up. For now that is how I am doing it however. Thanks for reading this, sorry I don't know how to post my specs yet.

(I Edited the topic to make it match better the info in the file)

[ 12-19-2002, 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Serondal ]

[Psirat]

I ran into that problem just recently when returning to the game and trying surface ops. For me, the orders menu was defaulting to having an X in the evac box. I just cleared that while giving the order and was good to go. May be something else for you, but i know I scratched my head a little before noticing it.

[Supreme Cmdr]

This one has been reproduced. It seems to have crept in with the recent menu fix for the AE.

The workaround for now is to just de-select them if flagged for evac.

[Serondal]

For me when I click the box to take Evac off it will but as soon as I pick a general order it will mark the box again. At least I know I'm not a stupid noob or going even more crazy! Thanks for responding SC. For now I will just give them attack orders, will probably make them more effective any how. Merry Friday before Christmas

[Supreme Cmdr]

I have researched this issue and found no problems with it.

I had assumed the order just wasn't working (in my post above). Your NPCs will mark themselves for evac automatically, under certain circumstances e.g. badly injured, trying to RTB to a platform that does not exist etc - all depending on AI

Otherwise, the orders menu works just fine in RC30

[ 12-22-2002, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[Serondal]

Hrm , I supose I'll just have to mark it up to their low AI And give them exact ordres Thanks for looking into it though!