Markus Armbruster
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Before, drop worked like fly: it accepted any plane, but planes without capability cargo dropped nothing. Partial fix for #1388263.
48 lines
2 KiB
Perl
48 lines
2 KiB
Perl
.TH Command DROP
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.NA drop "Use planes to drop commodities in your own sectors"
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.LV Expert
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.SY "dropoff <TRANSPORTS> <ESCORTS> <SECT> <PATH|DESTINATION> <COMMODITY>"
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The \*Qdropoff\*U command is used to resupply beleaguered friendly
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troops with food, shells, reinforcements, and other necessities of
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battle.
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.s1
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<TRANSPORTS> represents a list of planes to transport commodities to
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the target sector.
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Only planes with capability cargo and sufficient mobility, based in a
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sector stocked with petrol and the commodities to transport, will be
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successfully selected for the mission.
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.s1
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<ESCORTS> represent a list of fighter planes which are capable of escorting
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the transports all the way to the target.
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To be selected, escorts must have fuel and mobility.
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.s1
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<SECT> represents an assembly point, where all of the planes in the
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mission meet before proceeding on to the target sector.
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The assembly point must be owned by you or an ally, or you or an ally
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must have a ship there. It must not be more than
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four sectors away from any of the planes selected for the mission.
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.s1
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<COMMODITY> is the name of the commodity which is to be dropped.
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.s1
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Route is a normal empire path specification. You may also give a
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destination sector on the command line, or at any time while giving
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the route, and empire will use the best path from the current sector
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to the desired destination sector.
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.s1
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When getting a path interactively, empire will show you the information
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you have (from your bmap) concerning the current area, to help you plot
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your course.
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.s1
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Air drop missions can be intercepted just like any other mission. See
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info \*QIntercept\*U.
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.s1
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Planes which arrive safely at the target sector will drop the goodies off
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to the waiting people below.
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.s1
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Any plane with the \*Qmine\*U ability can
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mine a sector by dropping shells in a sea sector.
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.s1
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Note that a plane must be at least 40% efficient before it can leave
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the ground.
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.s1
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.SA "Plane-types, bomb, fly, paradrop, recon, Mobility, Planes, Commodities"
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