UAV's not returning to base to refuel

[trebor]

My UAV's have been crashing when I have them set patrolling an area, even though they are not too far from a few air fields.

I have built 4x RQ-4A Euro Hawk and 4x RQ-4A Global Hawk UAV's and all but 1 of them has crashed when on patrol so far.

Anyone else have this happen?

[tkobo]

No, i havent encountered this,but i havent used those 2 UAVs either,so it might be something with them.I had thousands of UAVs in my last aar gaem on patrol, and ddint lose a single one .

Do you perchance have those pesky air refueling units in the air someplace not far from them ?

[trebor]

No, no air refuelling units nearby, just the units in the pic.

I had it patrolling a similar route to the fighter in the pic, so pretty close to 3 air fields, and at the time wasn't at war with any one to shoot it down.

Have never really used UAV's much before, but noticed that these 2 had decent 200km+ spotting range, so thought i'd try them out.

[tkobo]

I have the game running to look at something else,so i double checked.I have used the RQ-4A Global Hawk .Ill put one up on patrol and see what happens.

It could be just some old helicopter pilots snuck into your uav program

[tkobo]

Just ran two fast tests, a save game, and a new game,in both tests the RQ-4A Global Hawk returned to an airfiled to refuel as needed during their patrol.

Did you at some point turn off your airfields for a time ?

[trebor]

Oh, they do go back to air fields, but at some point they must 'forget' they need refuelling.

The global hawk shows 0 for fuel capacity, so I assumed it must be an error, that's why I built the other version which has 48 fuel capacity, but they crashed too.

I have my last uav up patrolling now to see if it crashes too, and no I didn't deactivate any air fields.

[tkobo]

Mine shows as 48 fuel capacity, and the one test is still running,all 4 auvs still patrolling.Are you sure your not confusing supply,which would be zero,with fuel ?

[trebor]

No it's defiantly fuel capacity, this is a pic what shows in my game.

Is yours from a game started after the newest update? Maybe it's changed.

[tkobo]

Thats looks like a bug/entry error.The US version,RQ-4A Global Hawk shows as 48,i didnt look at the EU version.Does your US version show as zero also ?

[tkobo]

Did a fast look at the EU version, and its wrong on mine also.So you found a bug/ data entry error for that unit.Which explains why its crashing.It however doesnt explain why the US version was crashing for you.....

[trebor]

Have just been thinking, I had some military goods shortages when the prices went up. But wouldn't they just land until fuel was available?

Oops fuel doesn't come from military goods anyway.

[tkobo]

Yes, and military goods wouldnt affect their fuel anyway.And if you had a fuel shortage, they should have simply landed and stayed landed,at their next refuel stop.If they were for some reason taking off without fuel though,that would explain it also.

[tkobo]

Did a fast test, when no fuel was available they stayed landed like they should.

[trebor]

My last uav is still flying, stupid thing doesn't want to crash now i'm watching

Will let the game run some more in the morning see if it happens again.

[trebor]

Have been looking in the default.unit file and that Euro Hawk does have a fuel capacity, it's just so low it gets rounded down to 0 in game.

My last uav is still flying after several months so not sure why the other 7 have crashed.