Stennis capacity

[evilnate]

Hi All,

 

Some update iterations ago, I could get four client 18's to start on ramp and four clients 18's to start on catapults which was great for eight players.

 

Now it appears that the max is four? Am I Missing something?

[BoneDust]

I haven't been able to get any clients to load on the carrier. They usually just explode.

[CHSStarKiller]

Yeah, kind of upsetting that you can make it look great with static A/C but no others besides you unless your doing multiplayer. They just taxi into your saying I'm hit!

[evilnate]

Well, hopefully we will get capacity of 8 clients per carrier back. Maybe the future will allow 12 someday.

[Grimes]

So I haven't been able to thoroughly test every possible condition, but here is a break down of what is happens as of the last patch or two.

 

For on ramp spawns.

1. IF paused at mission start up to 4 aircraft can be spawned in along the "sixpack" between the forward elevator and the landing area.

 

2. After time starts up to 6 aircraft points exist. Two per elevator with the forwardmost elevator not being used.

 

It appears to ignore slots. so the first person to spawn always occupies the same spot.

 

Unknown what happens if you try to spawn more than 6, taxi to a spawn point and someone attempts to spawn, spawn more than 4 at mission start, spawn more than 6 after mission start, or use runway spawns.

 

AI intermixed with players gets kinda weird as the AI will try to use the catapult based on aircraft that spawned before it. For instance I spawned and then an E2 spawns, the E2 would try to take cat 2 even if I taxied to it and hooked up because it expected me to take cat 1.

[BoneDust]

So how are you guys getting clients to spawn on the carrier?

[Woody01]

It could be the order of placement, I was having trouble with this in the last few updates but now if I add 4 as ramp start first, then I added 4 as runway start and all 8 aircraft work ok. 4 on the ramp and 4 on the cat. Now I'm not sure if its anything to do with the update but before I think I was adding the runway starts first and then it had no room for the ramp starting aircraft.

[BoneDust]

It could be the order of placement, I was having trouble with this in the last few updates but now if I add 4 as ramp start first, then I added 4 as runway start and all 8 aircraft work ok. 4 on the ramp and 4 on the cat. Now I'm not sure if its anything to do with the update but before I think I was adding the runway starts first and then it had no room for the ramp starting aircraft.

 

So, do you just vary the start time?

 

Good info, and you could be right. I have the cat jets on first and ramp on after.

[Grimes]

Which aircraft, which carrier, and where are they set to spawn?

[BoneDust]

Which aircraft, which carrier, and where are they set to spawn?

 

I had 2 F18 Lot 20 on cat 1 and 2, (AI)….1 E2D on cat4 (AI) and 1 S3 Tanker cat 3 (AI)

 

USS Stennis. Then 3 human guys set to spawn on ramp cold in F18s

[Woody01]

So, do you just vary the start time?

 

Good info, and you could be right. I have the cat jets on first and ramp on after.

 

I don't very the start time, I will do some testing tonight and let you know what I find.

 

But it has worked as 8 x client Lot 20 FA18's on the Stennis.

[Grimes]

For time being you might want to avoid mixing AI and client ops on carriers. I don't really know what state ED consider CVs to be in right now, so issues are likely to crop up if you run mixed operations.