Building shooting at own building

[axi]

I had a peculiar bug today, playing a 1v1 on new community mod 26.6.

I had a sentry tower close to cc, which the enemy captured for a while, and i then recaptured. But my CC kept shooting at my own sentry tower until i manually reset the target. If im not mistaken there is some new building arrow targeting system in newest community mod? So could be only relating to this mod.

I couldnt quickly figure out where to find my replay files, but the bug should be quite obvious even without a replay?

 

[real_tabasco_sauce]

Thanks so much for reporting @axi

I think I know what this is and it should be simple to fix. I will add this fix to my patch, and fix it if we have time for another community mod release.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

hmm actually I cannot reproduce the error. Neither manually targeting the captured tower nor letting the default AI attack it enabled the cc to shoot the tower after it switched back to my side.

If you select a replay in your replay screen, you should be able to see the folder that has the replay in question. You could upload those here, or just send it to me directly.

[Gurken Khan]

Just to make sure: friendly fire is impossible? So the CC shooting the tower can't be stray arrows?

[real_tabasco_sauce]

yes, it should be impossible. in the case where the tower is recaptured by @axi, the cc will try shooting at it and fail because it is not an enemy building. After failing, it will be removed from the both the player controlled targeting queue as well as the list of available targets.

It could be that I have misunderstood @axi tho.

Edited February 1, 2024 by real_tabasco_sauce

[Gurken Khan]

1 hour ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

targeting queue

When I defeat an enemy and my ally is around I often get an alarm that I'm attacked by them; don't know if that would be something like arrows already in the air or that queue being finished or what.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

attacked by your ally? Thats interesting. I am not sure what would cause that. Do you have a replay I could investigate with?

[alre]

2 hours ago, Gurken Khan said:

When I defeat an enemy and my ally is around I often get an alarm that I'm attacked by them; don't know if that would be something like arrows already in the air or that queue being finished or what.

this happens all the time to me and my friends. it should be just that, it happes when a building switches sides.

[guerringuerrin]

Yeah this happens also when some unit try to conquers a building in dispute between 2 allies

 

[Gurken Khan]

1 hour ago, alre said:

it happes when a building switches sides.

I figured as much. Do you happen to have a replay at hand where it happens for @real_tabasco_sauce to see?

I looked a bit but didn't find one yet, I might look more tomorrow.

[guerringuerrin]

@Gurken Khan You probably have some building of the defeated enemy under your control and some ally unit is trying to capture it

[axi]

here is the replay, you can see my CC shooting sentry tower at min 12:40 onwards. And tower is taking damage too! I blame this bug for losing that game

metadata.jsoncommands.txt

[real_tabasco_sauce]

ok I just tried the following to reproduce:

1v1 as seleucids, go phase 3, build two sentry towers, garrison sentry towers, garrison cc. Take player 2, train units, capture a tower, garrison, leave tower range. Take player 1, recapture tower, kill enemy occupants.

I could not reproduce the issue. @axi what mods were u using? Did you ever click the cc to attack the tower while it was in the hands of your enemy, or did the cc select that target on its own when no other units were nearby?

 

Edited February 2, 2024 by real_tabasco_sauce

[axi]

@real_tabasco_sauceI did not target the tower im pretty sure, but CC automatically targeted it after enemy troops were out of range and tower was the only target in range. No special mods: just autociv, community mod and balanced maps. maybe feldmap is on as well.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

Ok, thanks.

I'll keep a look out for similar issues. if you run into it again, let me know.