Lifeboats?

[Natmus]

Something about that attack against Party_boy made me wonder: I'll just quote a part of the attack report again, the part regarding my own losses:

Attack report
from 28.03.2006 10:50
Offence Units Hundsholm (14:99:8)
Total Losses
Large Warship 855 2
Small Warship 40 0
Small Merchant Ship 50 0
Stone Thrower 600 1
Spearfighter 1800 3
Archer 1955 3
Catapult 276 0

The interesting point is that I lost 2 LWs and a total of 7 troops, 1 ST, 3 spears and 3 archers. I had all available space loaded up in the fleets, so will all the surviving soldiers return?

Your Fleet
Order Attack
Status Return from party nation (23:92:23)
Ships
Large Warship 853
Small Warship 40
Small Merchant Ship 50
Army
Stone Thrower 599
Spearfighter 1797
Archer 1952
Catapult 276

It would appear to be that case, even if I shall check again when the troops are back and unloaded.
So in conclusion I have to ask where these 3 extra soldiers are in the returning fleet. Could they be sitting in lifeboats being towed by the rest of the ships? ;D

[ashimar]

Very interesting discovery Mads.

I made one of those a couple of days ago as well. I logged in to see what Henning was building and to my astonishment saw a stackload of soldiers being produced...and nothing else ! Soldiers enough to keep going for days which in itself is far better than letting the resources pile up and not building anything at all, but from my meddling perspective it would have been better to pour those resources in simultaneous ship+soldier productionstacks which might run for a shorter time, but are more time effective when you want to get the maximum amount of ships+soldiers in a given amount of time, so after this twisted meaculpa here I shall tell you what happened. I looked at the resources having been invested in those soldier production stacks and then looked at the storage capacity and saw that if I cancelled, all the gold would fit into the storagehouse but some 2-3K wood would be spilled. Still that seemed preferrable as there was more than enough wood to begin with and as I couldn't refrain from medding I did cancel right after a soldier was produced to make two new productionstacks of soldiers + LWs. To my surprise the wood was not spilled but fitted neatly in the storagehouse although it was way over the limits.

Another anomaly it would appear.

P.S. Sorry Henning. I honestly don't visit your account more than once a month ;D

P.P.S. To be fair though, I do visit Archibald (resources+stoners), Soiram (Trorn colony), Andre (cats+ships+soldiers), Ringthane (resources+cats/shared use with Alexander), Perun (Igor's still out) and myself almost daily, child and wife allowing ofcourse. It just creeps me out that nothing is being done there otherwise.

[mmupatton]

It's alright. I just have so little time recently, that I just do a quick click-and-run. MMU is my priority
I don't care is wood/stone is being wasted, gold would be sad

[mmupatton]

About the lifeboats, yes, I have noticed that (losing a LW and only 3 men once). There are many small bugs/features in this game.