Why Did I Just Lose A Harvester?

[tgb]

I had an ornithpter assigned to protect it, but when a sandworm popped up it did nothing and was eaten anyway.

[Logothete]

Did you set it to automatic recall? I've had a few turned into worm food because I didn't check that box.

[Col. Hathi]

Yeah, did you set it to recall automatically? Otherwise you gotta do it manually. All an ornithopter is gonna do is maybe warn you earlier.

[tgb]

No. I thought having the ornithopter there meant I didn't have to set it automatic recall

[Pawel (LINUX)]

There is a chance in the game that harvester will be lost even with ornithopter and auto recall. eg. when you play against Corrino.

[General Eclectic]

Publicado originalmente por Pawel (LINUX):

There is a chance in the game that harvester will be lost even with ornithopter and auto recall. eg. when you play against Corrino.

Yup had this happen. I was so confused that I went back to a previous save to verify I had set it to auto.

[Col. Hathi]

What's special about Corrino?

[Kolopaper]

Ornithopter is used to detect the worm faster, so it has enough time to go back, sometimes it gets eaten anyway, but it's pretty rate. You need the auto recall.

[Pawel (LINUX)]

Publicado originalmente por Col. Hathi:

What's special about Corrino?

They can prohibit to fly over territory - in consequence carryal will not arrive. Ability is called Interdiction Zone.

[Col. Hathi]

Publicado originalmente por Pawel (LINUX):

Publicado originalmente por Col. Hathi:

What's special about Corrino?

They can prohibit to fly over territory - in consequence carryal will not arrive. Ability is called Interdiction Zone.

Oh, I had no idea that that was included

[hibbidy_jibbidy]

do yourself a favour, and put an thopter on your harvester, and manually rescue your harvester, the ammount of spice you spend on auto recall is insane

[Kolopaper]

Publicado originalmente por hibbidy_jibbidy:

do yourself a favour, and put an thopter on your harvester, and manually rescue your harvester, the ammount of spice you spend on auto recall is insane

You lose 5% which you get back from the ornithopter and your spice can scale well with all the factions during the game, so basically you lose nothing. That's probably not the definition of "insane".

When you are fighting other players mid/late game you won't be able to keep attention to everything all the time, including your spice. So auto recall with ornithopter is pretty much the way to go.

You could go for manual control on early game, but that 5% won't be missed that much if you play correctly.

[chrcoluk]

Think I have 3 harvesters now "with" an orni, it can happen.

Probably about half a dozen without an orni.

[chrcoluk]

Publicado originalmente por hibbidy_jibbidy:

do yourself a favour, and put an thopter on your harvester, and manually rescue your harvester, the ammount of spice you spend on auto recall is insane

I think it needs to be more, 5% isnt really an incentive to disable auto recall. :)

[beegee84]

sometimes they get caught personally i like this. they rebuild anyways you just get a time penalty essenially

[chrcoluk]

Yep, although can hurt Atreides more as foremen training resets back to 0%. So if you had 45% buff from 3 tax cycles, that resets and need more cycles to train again.