Flag color

[1Cane]

Please explain to me how at a port or vehicle base it can be deacked and be captured and yet the flag is green?

[guncrasher]

Flag is tied to town.


Semp

[1Cane]

There is no town at either port or vehicle base.  So why is there a flag?

[guncrasher]

so you know which country it belongs to?


semp

[scott66]

And to mark the maproom my guess

[Scca]

And to mark the maproom my guess

I'll go with this one...

In practice, since you can deack and get the base take, is there a reason to be concerned?

[Kingpin]

I have seen and heard a lot of confusion about this in game, with people wondering why a Vehicle-base or Port was captured when the flag wasn't white.  I have also shot a number of M3s sitting by a flag at V-bases and Ports waiting for it turn white.

I wonder if the "white flag" condition shouldn't be tied to whether or not the base can be captured at that moment (regardless of type of base)?  For example: a Vehicle-base flag could turn white if all auto-ack is down (meaning the base is "capturable").  It is also useful for the defenders to know if a base is capturable or not, and the flag is a more intuitive indicator than doing a .dt check for auto ack downtimes.

Just an idea. Worthy of a Wishlist post...?

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[1Cane]

All I really want this to indicate is whether the base can be captured.

[popeye]

I wonder if the "white flag" condition shouldn't be tied to whether or not the base can be captured at that moment (regardless of type of base)?  For example: a Vehicle-base flag could turn white if all auto-ack is down (meaning the base is "capturable").  It is also useful for the defenders to know if a base is capturable or not, and the flag is a more intuitive indicator than doing a .dt check for auto ack downtimes.

Just an idea. Worthy of a Wishlist post...?

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Kingpin

+1

[SlipKnt]

I wonder if the "white flag" condition shouldn't be tied to whether or not the base can be captured at that moment (regardless of type of base)?[/b]  For example: a Vehicle-base flag could turn white if all auto-ack is down (meaning the base is "capturable").  It is also useful for the defenders to know if a base is capturable or not, and the flag is a more intuitive indicator than doing a .dt check for auto ack downtimes.

Just an idea. Worthy of a Wishlist post...?

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Kingpin

+1

 

[lunatic1]

in AH2 V bases and ports flags didna change color ei

[hgtonyvi]

in AH2 V bases and ports flags didna change color ei

Yea i was gonna say something like this. I cannot recall making the flag white at a port of vbase for it to be captured.

[rvflyer]

in AH2 V bases and ports flags didna change color ei

Could that be because they didn't have flags?

[BowHTR]

Could that be because they didn't have flags?

* Ding Ding Ding! *

Flags on the fields are new to AH3. There used to only be flags in towns.

[Kingpin]

FYI: I went ahead and started a Wishlist thread on this if any of you want to chime in there.

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Kingpin