Upgrading Planes is a nightmare

[dilk]

Hi,
let´s say I have new variants of fighters, CAS and NAV which all have small airframe.
And now lets asume I set the running production lines all on those new variants and let upgrade the older variants.
Then the following happend:

NAV and CAS were upgraded to fighters if I set the older CAS and NAV variants to obsolete.
But if I don`t do that, I can not upgrade my CAS and NAV.
So I had to upgrade first my fighters, then my CAS and then my NAV (or vice versa).

Wouldn`t it be helpful to have a menu where I can set what should be upgraded to which equipment instead of letting teh AI do?

 

[Findell_HOI]

Set your NAV and CAS to tags that are different then the Fighter tags.

 

[dilk]

Set your NAV and CAS to tags that are different then the Fighter tags.

That is what I did. But it didn‘t solve My probleme

 

[Corpse Fool]

Yeah, this interaction with the conversion menu was a point I had raised against the new designer... for tanks, lol.
I can offer nothing to help you, other than to perhaps run the conversions in series. Set the old CAS as obsolete, enable conversion, run through them, and then move onto the next batch.

 

[Gran Strategist]

This is one aspect they could really improve on as you can't choose what to upgrade without extreme micro.

When you choose to upgrade it would be useful to be able to select which models you wanted to upgrade.

 

[goodcigar]

Wouldn`t it be helpful to have a menu where I can set what should be upgraded to which equipment instead of letting teh AI do?

Yeppp lol.

 

[dilk]

It seems PDX don´t think new stuff like tank or plane designer from start to end.

For example as GER they give us 2 medium tank variants by focus (III and IV). But the player is not able to set in which ratio those tanks shall fill divisions.

Or let´s take a look on the air branche of GER focuses. They still give bonuses to NAV, CAS or TAC and don´t reflect the new research tree.

 

[vermicious knid]

I've resorted to looking at the total pool of airframes or chassis available to upgrade and trying to assign factories in the ratio I want them allocated (twice as many fighters as CAS, for example).

That is at best imperfect, because it doesn't account for rates of increase in production efficiency...but I'm not going to do calculus to play a video game.

 

[LostinSpice]

I find this annoying too as I don't want CAS converted to fighters or whatever. Kinda breaks my immersion. Changing tags has no effect. The only way round this is to switch older aircraft between obsolete and current. Convert one type then the other. Clunky and micro but it is the best option available right now.

 

[Had a dad]

They still give bonuses to NAV, CAS or TAC and don´t reflect the new research tree.

they are fixing some of the old NFs with the monthly patches

 

[alexman]

i kinda wish they just removed carrier versions completely and had some automated refitting for carriers where they just lost 20% range and had a minor 2 ic refitting cost. why add extra micro that isnt even fun. just have a tech to unlock carrier refits. thats 70 days

 

[Poopfaust]

What are "NFs"?

 

[Corpse Fool]

What are "NFs"?

national focuses.