Unable to find some towns via City Locator #4299

[aurbo]

I asked on Side channel to confirm I was not the only one having this difficulty. Some people were able to look up the town, others were not. I have been /reporting any towns I noticed this with so far but just wanted to make sure it was noted in the forum as well or intended functionality because I have low mem option enabled.

I noticed that most of the towns I was attempted to find have no brigade in them, but some of the empty towns I am able to look up. Even if I just type the first letter of the town name, it doesn't appear in the list.

Some of the towns without a Bde in and unable to find:

Mouzon

Sedan

Town I am able to lookup without a Bde in it:

Bouillon

[GOPHUR]

Can you try these offline?

[aurbo]

I was able to find them in offline mode. I also haven't checked live server since 1.3.1 was released, I'll check that shortly.

Edited June 11, 2010 by aurbo

[aurbo]

Just checked 1.3.1 live and was able to look up the towns I mentioned previously as well as other Allied and Axis held empty towns.

I tried with low memory option both enabled and disabled (don't need to restart game when changing low memory option?) and was not able to reproduce the original problem.

[aurbo]

Just spoke with another player who was experiencing the same problem yesterday, and he was having it again today on 1.31 live. He was unable to look up Evrange which was an empty Allied town contested at the time.

He had low memory option enabled, disabled it, reloaded the game and could look up the city just fine.

[GOPHUR]

Hmm. That might make sense. Low memory is really "don't load a bunch of stuff until I need it".

[aurbo]

It's definately a low memory preference feature, as I've had to re-enable it to resolve CTD issues for now. I once again can not lookup empty towns.

The problem that comes up is if you .obj c to see where attacks are going on, softcaps aren't listed because they aren't flagged for low memory systems to load them. So you have to scroll across the battlefront to find all the attacks taking place.

Same with if you see that XXX is under attack and XXX is a softcap, you can't use the City Locator to find the town and take part.

Any chance that once an AO or DO is on an empty town it could be flagged for low memory systems to cache? I realize it's not a big issue but could it be put on a lower priority or some such?