The Case Of The Vanishing Carrier

[+Piecemeal 450]

I've been scratching my head in regard to a rather irritating problem I've encountered. Hopefully somebody out there can point me in the right direction...

Yesterday I added a carrier to my SFG campaigns by instruction from Dave's 'How To Add A Carrier To SFG/WOE' file in the knowledge base contained on this site.

Everything was perfect. Take off was smooth as silk - the mission went according to plan - until my return to base, when lo and behold, yes you've guessed it, the carrier had vanished and was nowhere to be seen in any direction.

I double checked all changes and entries and even referred back to the knowledge base and double checked everything step-by-step.

It's now gone past 11:45pm here in Ireland and I'm way overdue some shut-eye, so I thought I'd post this in the hope that somebody might have a solution or maybe this has been a common hiccup to this upgrade. Suggestions anyone?

 

Thanks in advance.....

[+malibu43 142]

I've been scratching my head in regard to a rather irritating problem I've encountered. Hopefully somebody out there can point me in the right direction...

Yesterday I added a carrier to my SFG campaigns by instruction from Dave's 'How To Add A Carrier To SFG/WOE' file in the knowledge base contained on this site.

Everything was perfect. Take off was smooth as silk - the mission went according to plan - until my return to base, when lo and behold, yes you've guessed it, the carrier had vanished and was nowhere to be seen in any direction.

I double checked all changes and entries and even referred back to the knowledge base and double checked everything step-by-step.

It's now gone past 11:45pm here in Ireland and I'm way overdue some shut-eye, so I thought I'd post this in the hope that somebody might have a solution or maybe this has been a common hiccup to this upgrade. Suggestions anyone?

 

Thanks in advance.....

 

I've never had a carrier actually vanish. They can be hard to find sometimes, though. Did you get a vector to homeplate from Red Crown and follow that?

[kukulino 1]

I've never had a carrier actually vanish. They can be hard to find sometimes, though. Did you get a vector to homeplate from Red Crown and follow that?

I agree with malibu43. It is not easy find carrier sometimes. Carrier is not in its start position when I coming back from mission. If I am lost, I give order to my wingmans for returning to base, than I follow them. They find carrier allways

 

But you can try find carrier with F7 key, if it is there for sure.

Edited June 18, 2008 by kukulino

[+drdoyo 2]

I've had this happen often myself. You'll also note that your wingmen are right there with you and as you pass WP8....poof, they're gone too.

 

What I do which seems to work is after I get the mission complete message from Red Crown, or upon passing WP5 I cycle the WP to 7 and then back to 6. By doing that the carrier is alwayse there unless I forget to do that. I don't know why it happens, but that fixes the vanishing carrier and wingmen in my game.

[+Gepard 10,676]

Alt+N should bring you close to the carrier.

[+Piecemeal 450]

I've had this happen often myself. You'll also note that your wingmen are right there with you and as you pass WP8....poof, they're gone too.

 

What I do which seems to work is after I get the mission complete message from Red Crown, or upon passing WP5 I cycle the WP to 7 and then back to 6. By doing that the carrier is alwayse there unless I forget to do that. I don't know why it happens, but that fixes the vanishing carrier and wingmen in my game.

 

Excellent stuff, drdoyo! A perfect solution to a minor glitch. I hereby declare the case of the missing carrier solved.

Thanks again bud

[+drdoyo 2]

I'm one of the few that likes to hand fly it all the way Michael I had to find another solution.

[+Piecemeal 450]

I'm one of the few that likes to hand fly it all the way Michael I had to find another solution.

 

 

Welcome to the long haul club .......

[FERdeBOER 0]

Change in the carriername_data.ini the speed to 0.

 

The carrier will be still and remain where you place it.

[+Piecemeal 450]

I've had this happen often myself. You'll also note that your wingmen are right there with you and as you pass WP8....poof, they're gone too.

 

What I do which seems to work is after I get the mission complete message from Red Crown, or upon passing WP5 I cycle the WP to 7 and then back to 6. By doing that the carrier is alwayse there unless I forget to do that. I don't know why it happens, but that fixes the vanishing carrier and wingmen in my game.

 

Another high seas mystery for you folks. Drdoyo's excellent solution works just fine when followed; provided you've got up to and including two aircraft in your flight (yourself & a wingman). The only problem lies when you have three or more aircraft in your flight; and yes, you're back to square one. That sweet, sweet mother ship that we all long to return to has once again disappeared.

 

Any suggestions out there folks?

 

PS: I HAVE tried searching for it, both visually and with my ground search radar. It's a definite disappearance

[+drdoyo 2]

Hmmm, strange. I regularly fly with a 4 ship. What campaigns are we talking about?

[+Jarhead1 27]

Maybe it was th final countdown storm it went through and warped back to WW2, lol.

[+Piecemeal 450]

Hmmm, strange. I regularly fly with a 4 ship. What campaigns are we talking about?

 

 

All my campaign timelines have been edited; Quick Sand starts in December 1968, Rattlesnake starts in 1976 and Desert Thunder in 1986. I always thought the campaign start dates were a little too close together and didn't span enough of the ultimate jet period timeline.

I'm currently playing 'Quick Sand' where I'm limited to a 2 aircraft formation. Maybe it's just a case of a simple .ini tweak but I'm not sure where to start since I followed the instructions to the letter and don't want to screw things up

[+malibu43 142]

I think I may have this one figured out...

 

I had the same problem and realized that in my campaign_Data.ini, the carrier didn't have a tour that covered the date of my mission. If you're playing a campaign, go to the carriers and make sure the start and end dates for one of the tours listed covers the date of your mission...

 

I think that might work...

[Wrench 9,632]

Was something like this seen, just before the ship vanished:

 

 

 

 

Wrench

kevin stein

[+PureBlue 71]

Was something like this seen, just before the ship vanished:

 

Final countdown eh? Just watched it the other day, it's got great footage of all kinds of different navy birds!

I strongly recommend this old flick.