b-29 drone destroy glitch

[Pannono]

I was taking off in a formation of B29s tonight and I realized that I had taken too much fuel and aborted the takeoff. My drones destroyed themselves as I was coming to a complete stop. The B-29s were 123 perks each at the time. Is there anything that can be done so that I can regain my lost perks? Obviously, there was a glitch that caused my B-29s to destroy themselves that wasn't my fault, and I shouldn't be penalized for it.

I took a ss yesterday and another today that shows the perk loss, but i was so pissed after my drones exploded that i alt f4ed out of AH before i thought to get a pic of the -200+ perk loss in the hangar. I also have the film.

http://www.mediafire.com/?i21702kg4yqu7ay

Edit: The difference in the screenshots comes out to 246.05

[Jayhawk]

Sorry, no way to regain the lost points.  It's not a glitch, it's just how the drones act, double check your fuel and loadout before you start rolling.

[fuzeman]

You might have to dump the bombs on the runway, at least to get the lead ship off the ground and fly a go around pattern. Lead bombs shouldn't arm if dropped on the runway but you may have to think about the drone's bombs. If they aren't fast and still low they probably wouldn't travel 1,000 feet and arm themselves.

[AWwrgwy]

If the drones were not out of range of the lead plane where they would nornally go poof, they should not have blown up irregardless.

Too bad about the perks though. waaa waaa



wrongway

[chipr]

this has happened to me too. This is just another way for AH2 to keep your subs coming by taking away all your hard work and to make you do it all over again. Btw, this only happens in the b29

[icepac]

I believe you have to climb above a certain altitude before the drones will follow you.

If you don't achieve this altitude, the drones don't acquire you.

[RSLQK186]

Did some testing offline. The drones are resetting back to the starting end of the runway. If you are out of a certain (unknown- did not check) range they explode. If you have not gone that far they remain intact. You can even go back and collect them if you don't have enough runway to compleat take off.

I tried several models and even the ones that are not recently updated do this. You can even get the wheels off the ground a few feet, land and they do this. You can bring the wheels up, land while still over the runway and they do this.
However I did take a set of Betties around without the wheels going up and the drones were in line- low AGL and not in final formation. I was able to land them without problems. I then taxied to the other end and they remained where they stopped and intact.

I think the drones have at least 4 stages of control.
1. Match speed but are still tied to runway. This is evedent by you veering off runway but they follow the concrete. Player/FM/Field controlled (by field control I mean the FM is using info about the field)
2. AGL point that drones follow you but do not form up. Player/FM controlled
3. AGL point that drones form up. Player/FM controlled
4. AGL and wheels down where drones attempt to land . Player/FM/Field controlled.

Although this should be counted as a bug IMHO, you need to get to step #2 if you want to prevent this.
For the time being I suggest that that once large bombers start rolling they should compleat takeoff. Smaller ones can stop fast enough if the problem is realised quickly.