CP in Aachen w/o actual town linked...

[vzaitsev]

Just capped Aachen-Alsdorf CP in Aachen a little while ago, but there apparently is not an Alsdorf near Aachen... (or even in game)

There are three cps on the easternmost side of Aachen, but the Alsdorf CP doesn't even link to an existing town...

Edited July 7, 2010 by vzaitsev

[vzaitsev]

Just capped Aachen-Alsdorf CP in Aachen a little while ago, but there apparently is not an Alsdorf near Aachen... (or even in game)

There are three cps on the easternmost side of Aachen, but the Alsdorf CP doesn't even link to an existing town...

bump

[eko13wf]

It may be a placeholder if another town is added or a town that was going to be added but never was. Aside from it being there, I don't think it is a problem. Think of it like another city flag that you can just respawn into.

[DOC]

It should be capturable but not spawnable. We have several depots that were built in anticipation of towns that were not built yet, to save time in production. We kept them uncapturable previously by not including radios in them but recent changes destroyed that degree of control over capture functions, so now they function as city facilities like the railway stations ... flags you need to capture for control of the city or town.

It would probably be wise to rename them to avoid confusion now that we have the new code but that is going to take a lot of time to get them all and we are running out of patch time for v1.31 as v1.32 dev must get under way immediately.

[vzaitsev]

It should be capturable but not spawnable. We have several depots that were built in anticipation of towns that were not built yet, to save time in production. We kept them uncapturable previously by not including radios in them but recent changes destroyed that degree of control over capture functions, so now they function as city facilities like the railway stations ... flags you need to capture for control of the city or town.

It would probably be wise to rename them to avoid confusion now that we have the new code but that is going to take a lot of time to get them all and we are running out of patch time for v1.31 as v1.32 dev must get under way immediately.

Ah okay... Hehe, I should have capped the other depot first then (I was killed capping it by those that spawned to recap the other depots)...

[GOPHUR]

Just capped Aachen-Alsdorf CP in Aachen a little while ago, but there apparently is not an Alsdorf near Aachen... (or even in game)

There are three cps on the easternmost side of Aachen, but the Alsdorf CP doesn't even link to an existing town...

This practice is about 10 years old. We do this to plan for future expansion. We try and do it less now but we aren;t concerned in this example as there is no expectation that you will ever be able to spawn there as the linked town does not exist.

We do care when the depot is named as if linking to a real town but there is no longer a link there.