Aircraft not triggering Goals

[Lancer]

For some reason, naval aircraft do not trigger destination goals, air force and army aircraft are fine. I looked thoroughly through every record and do not find anything that would isolate naval aircraft to not being able to trigger a destination goal. Those of you with access to the inside aspects of the sim will have to look into this.

[Mike D]

For some reason, naval aircraft do not trigger destination goals, air force and army aircraft are fine. I looked thoroughly through every record and do not find anything that would isolate naval aircraft to not being able to trigger a destination goal. Those of you with access to the inside aspects of the sim will have to look into this.

I'm guessing that this is a game engine problem but I'll look into it.

[Mudslide]

I'm guessing that this is a game engine problem but I'll look into it.

I'm finding that naval aircraft do trigger destination goals, you just can't specify which naval aircraft trigger destination goals.

The drop down list on the goal menu has CH-46E TRN, but the Iwo Jima class Tripoli (LPH10) has only CH-46E STK. I'm going to try to edit that out in the scenario and change the STK to TRN for the Tripoli's helicopters to see if that works.

[Mike D]

I'm finding that naval aircraft do trigger destination goals, you just can't specify which naval aircraft trigger destination goals.

The drop down list on the goal menu has CH-46E TRN, but the Iwo Jima class Tripoli (LPH10) has only CH-46E STK. I'm going to try to edit that out in the scenario and change the STK to TRN for the Tripoli's helicopters to see if that works.


Your right, specific unit names don't work.

[Lancer]

I'm finding that naval aircraft do trigger destination goals, you just can't specify which naval aircraft trigger destination goals.

The drop down list on the goal menu has CH-46E TRN, but the Iwo Jima class Tripoli (LPH10) has only CH-46E STK. I'm going to try to edit that out in the scenario and change the STK to TRN for the Tripoli's helicopters to see if that works.

I've known that limitation, its definitely a bug since the Janes version. My situation stems from aircraft launched from carriers do not trigger destination goals. I placed these aircraft in airbases and same problem occurs. The strange thing is that when I launched F-22s from carriers, they do trigger destination goals. So something's got to give with naval aircraft.

[Mike D]

I moved this post to its own thread. I don't think its a problem specific to 19.0 but as more clues come to light I'm starting to think it does have something to do with how we have the db laid out.

I'm assuming you added aircraft by country, like United States/Naval Aircraft/F-14D AAW. If so I want you to try adding the aircraft via "AIRCRAFT/..." instead of via the country. So for the F/A-22 AAW add it via United States/Air Force Aircraft/F/A-22 and also via AIRCRAFT/AAW Aircraft/F/A-22. Or any other aircraft. Every aircraft in country records should also be in AIRCRAFT by catagory.

If one triggers and one does not then that tells me something, not shure what though.

[Lancer]

SOLVED IT! Turns out that the destination goals not only stop at object class for recognition, it is caps sensitive. So those loadouts in airbases AND carriers read as:

AIRCRAFT "F/A-18E AAW" "F/A-18E AAW" "Naval Aircraft" "United States" 4

which should be modified all caps to:

AIRCRAFT "F/A-18E AAW" "F/A-18E AAW" "NAVAL AIRCRAFT" "United States" 4

The reason is because the goal displays the class in all caps:

GOAL 575314.244189 451693.127071 75.000000
BEGIN
GOALNAME "F/A-18E AAW"
GOALID 3
PARENTGOALID -1
SIDE 0
GOALTYPE 0
STARTTIME 0
ENDTIME 0
POINTS 100
DEPTH 0
RETURNTOBASE 0
COUNTRY "United States"
CLASS "NAVAL AIRCRAFT" <------ <------ <------
SHIPNAME "F/A-18E AAW"
TAGNAME "F/A-18E AAW"
MESSAGETYPEID 2
BEGINTEXT
F/A-18
ENDTEXT
END

so it will not recognize the Naval Aircraft class unless it matches it in all caps to NAVAL AIRCRAFT

[Mudslide]

That's it. Got it working. I'd have never thought to look there.