I looked into this a while ago and I should've written up notes then, but I forgot.
I think this basically comes down to how Princess evaluates moves. Princess aero movement has been a "hot topic" recently, but those were really bugs with how the aero move paths were getting generated. It appears that this isn't the case here.
From what I can tell, Princess will move aeros to engage in some instances, and not always. I would guess this is more because Princess isn't good at evaluating what is a good move and now that it doesn't actually consider the move.
It's debatable whether this is truely a bug; really I think it's more that Princess hasn't yet been truely designed to handle Aero movement (right now we've basically added on a few additions to the ground movement code and it sort of works). Really, this ticket should be more like, "Princess needs to be designed to handle Aeros."
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Not sure if its related, I tried a few times setting Princess' to take 'zero risk' with pilot rolls, but for some reason Princess is still doing some kind of pilot rolls every round.
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I looked into this a while ago and I should've written up notes then, but I forgot.
I think this basically comes down to how Princess evaluates moves. Princess aero movement has been a "hot topic" recently, but those were really bugs with how the aero move paths were getting generated. It appears that this isn't the case here.
From what I can tell, Princess will move aeros to engage in some instances, and not always. I would guess this is more because Princess isn't good at evaluating what is a good move and now that it doesn't actually consider the move.
It's debatable whether this is truely a bug; really I think it's more that Princess hasn't yet been truely designed to handle Aero movement (right now we've basically added on a few additions to the ground movement code and it sort of works). Really, this ticket should be more like, "Princess needs to be designed to handle Aeros."
Not sure if its related, I tried a few times setting Princess' to take 'zero risk' with pilot rolls, but for some reason Princess is still doing some kind of pilot rolls every round.
Princess should be able to handle aircraft (conventional fighters, aeros and aerodyne dropships) on ground maps a lot better as of version 43.5