activate_unit_type which = transports ???

[Truchses]

I just noticed this tech in the HOI tree.

application = { # Combat Unit Transport Procedure
id = 13004

...

effects = {
command = { type = activate_unit_type which = transports }
command = { type = max_organization which = transports when = now value = 10 }
command = { type = max_organization which = destroyer when = now value = 10 }
}
}

It has been removed in CORE.
Is this a fake tech or do transports really get activated by this?
So far I had the impression they are standard units, and the tech file format states doesn't have them in the activasion list.

 

[Mithel]

It's a real tech (or at least it was in the first several versions). I think somewhere around v1.04 they gave more countries this as a start so that some of the minors could actually build transports without doing research. I haven't given it any thought in the past year but I'm assuming it still works as it did previously.

 

[Gwalcmai]

Yes, it works. For the human. The AI merrily builds stuff it shouldn't, which I assume is why not many coastal countries lack that tech now.

But maybe the "AI builds units it doesn't have the tech for" bug has been fixed in 1.06 (one can hope).

 

[Truchses]

Thanks. But then, are transports available only on activation by this command? I thought transports are standard and like cruisers are available from begin on. And if, then why is this command necessary? Is there a differentiation between transports of the merchant fleet in the transport pool for convoys and transports that you can build for troop transportation? As I wrote in CORE this tech has been removed. Maybe they created another tech with this activation but I believe not. The I would guess it is completely unnecessary. I want to know if ethier this tech is completely useless can be dumbed, like the Towed Submarine Containers, Sea Lauch Tests and Minisubs, or if it actually has a real effect and could be used to activate troop transports.

 

[Gwalcmai]

Well, the easiest way for you to make sure if the tech works or not is to edit some country's inc file and remove that tech. You'll notice that the country is no longer able to build transports.

CORE has a tech named "Transport Design" which activates transports, BTW.

 

[Truchses]

Thank you.

 

[jdrou]

Yes, it works. For the human. The AI merrily builds stuff it shouldn't, which I assume is why not many coastal countries lack that tech now.

But maybe the "AI builds units it doesn't have the tech for" bug has been fixed in 1.06 (one can hope).

Not fixed yet.

Thanks. But then, are transports available only on activation by this command? I thought transports are standard and like cruisers are available from begin on.

Some coastal countries that can't build transports in 1.06 when human-controlled because they don't have the tech: Philippines, Yemen, most Central American/Caribbean countries.