Repeating aerial recon missions in BtS (?)

[rupertslander]

Is there any way to get an air unit to recon a tile indefinitely in BtS?

 

[God-Emperor]

No such luck.

It would be problematic anyway. Someone declares war on you and moves a stack into your territory and what do the aircraft in the threatened city do? They do their pre-programmed recon missions before you can stop them, leaving you with no air units to attack the stack...

It could be programmed to cancel such missions under various circumstances, but considering how well it does this for workers and such it would have probably canceled when it didn't need to and not canceled when it should have.

 

[karadoc]

I recall that someone made a mod which has a bunch of additional automation commands, and the repeated recon mission was one of them. But I never tried that mod myself, and I don't remember exactly what it was called... something like Extra Automation Commands; but probably not that.

 

[r_rolo1]

You can queue up to 20 unit actions via shift-left click in the function button ( IIRC ) in regular game ... not unlimited ,but it is good enough for most situations

 

[rupertslander]

I know you can queue, and I've even fugued out how to make that a slightly smaller pain in the ass by changing the recon hotkey from "R" to "Shift-Z" in XML. Still, having to redo it every 20 turns is a bit of a pain.

 

[nfw]

LOR has that feature, if you put an air unit on auto explore, it'll continuously run recon missions, but not necessarily to the spots you want though.