[Scharnhorst1943]

thanks! got the SRD working well finally and also the PRD working good. had a spot of trouble getting the carriers into the Patrol Box, at first. lol! the blighters wanted to tag along with the transports in the SRD sea routes! :? i put the carriers ABOVE the transports in the mission file, and also made sure my PRD box routes were all good, still they persisted despite my efforts. i searched high and low for an answer and then it hit me---even though i had updated my .mis file to SHOW the carriers above the transports (which would or rather should have put them in the PRD) the .mis file was STILL showing them (when opened with notepad) BELOW the transports thus making them follow the SRD or transport routes instead! d'oh! :oops:

i manually cut and pasted the carriers (in notepad) ABOVE the transport ships and VIOLA! instant fix! now a happy camper as my carriers (both Japanese and American) were finally in their proper patrol boxes and happily steaming around the Pacific looking for trouble. lol!

next problem was assigning aircraft directly to the carriers. both Japanese and American planes/squadrons kept wanting to automatically TRANSFER to the closest landbase whenever i'd start the campaign over for testing. d'oh! even though they were assigned in the FMB properly to their proper carriers. i never have got them to just START on their carriers. only by using te DCG gui and manually transfering them via the Squadron editing controls did i finally solve that problem. however, i'd STILL like to know if or how they can be assigned to their carriers BEFORE starting a campaign and stay there (without using the Squadron edit feature.)

is this possible? if so, could you kindly pass that info along to me?

many thanks.

Beo

Actually, now that you fixed the first problem, it should have fixed the second problem. You see, when carriers follow srd waypts, they transfer their squadrons to land airfields. But if they are in a patrol box they stay on the carrier. So if the problem is still there there are two things you might try ...

1) delete all of your squadrons and remake them and reassign them to your carriers now that they are properly following prd wypts.

2) Make sure all of the squadrons are naval squadrons. For example. If you have US Airforce squadron assigned to a carrier ... it will transfer off reguardless. Same for japanese. Make sure you are using navy squadrons (which should be at the bottom of the list, or towards the bottom), and same for the US.

Try that and see if it helps. (Obviously #2 is going to be easier than #1)