Why over sea when you can just walk

[krios41]

- Fixed bug that could cause units to take a naval path to nearby provinces they could just walk too.

I caught the exact moment where this didn't happen

I need to watch my manpower and then this shit is happening

 

[QuakeRiley]

Because it's the shortest route? I think that is generally how the pathing works anyway.

 

[sterrius]

the only way a troop will choose to use a Water route is if you clicked the dock symbol by mistake. (And both provinces have a dock).

 

[safe-keeper]

Either way, should be easy enough to reproduce by moving a unit to the first province and then giving it the same move order ?
Then again, I don't know what other variables might play in here.

 

[panzerzombie]

One of the variables - as one who is far more knowledgeable than me just-don´t-remember-who mentioned - is the ratio of traveling time land vs. sea .... if the sea ratio is better then it chooses sea obviously BUT it can be tweaked to scale the ratio in favor of land movement like dunno ..... if land travel time is 5 times of sea travel then choose sea but not below or something

 

[Dalwin]

the only way a troop will choose to use a Water route is if you clicked the dock symbol by mistake. (And both provinces have a dock).

As logical as that statement is, it is unfortunately not true. What you describe is one way to make it happen, but it also happens all on its own. I have seen units in an Army west of Kiev all on their own take the train to Odessa, land in the port immediately west of Odessa and then ride back up to the front ending very near where they started.

This was NOT a human misclick. It was also NOT the shortest route. This is a bug that I (and others) have reported long ago and it is still not fixed.