reclaimers dont work?

[adecoy95]

i have a destroyed mini fortress and some tractor beam turrets, but my reclaimers will not go and repair them, anyone know why this is happening?

[keith.lamothe]

Do you mean Remains Rebuilders?  Are they on FRD?

[adecoy95]

well i have been right clicking targets manually, but auto frd for them does not seem to work either. using the latest patch.

seems i dont have the latest beta patch, ill try to see if that fixes it

[keith.lamothe]

If it still doesn't work in the latest patch, check to see if you have enough energy to rebuild those things; if so please post the save so I can check for bugs.  Thanks

[adecoy95]

ok i checked with the latest beta patch, I'm playing a multiplayer game btw, it also seems my engineers will not move automatically, but will assist anything they are nearby.

let me know if its just something silly I'm overlooking

also here is a screen of my cmd http://i.imgur.com/6DwXmNp.jpg

[Tridus]

Engineers and remains rebuilders won't move automatically unless you put them in free roaming defender (FRD) mode. There's options on the "CTRLS" interface (button in the bottom right) to do that automatically.

You can do it manually by selecting the engineers/rebuilders, and holding down V while right clicking.

[Arc-3N-4B]

According to that screenshot, it is set to Auto FRD.

[LordSloth]

According to that screenshot is correct...
However, for some reason, said engineers don't have the pink FRD aura.

If you manually issue the FRD order, does it work? If yes, then maybe something is going on with control groups. Or I do have a couple of out there ideas.

I could check the save for you.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, it was just a confusion:

1) The remains you wanted your rebuilders to rebuild did not belong to you, they belonged to your ally.

2) Two control toggles were preventing your rebuilder from rebuilding your ally's remains:
- As in your screenshot, your "Engineers Do Not Assist Allies" toggle was on.  This prevents your rebuilders or engineers from trying to assist ally stuff.  This includes rebuilding.
- But even with that set to allow your rebuilder to work, your ally's "Ally Rebuilders May Rebuild My Units" toggle was not on.  This defaults to off because the ally would actually have to pay the m+c for the rebuilding process (where just assisting with an engineer to speed something up uses your m+c for the speeding up).  So we allow this kind of cross-rebuilding but it has to be a concious decision on the ally's part to allow you to write checks their stockpiles have to make good on


When I change those two toggles (the first on your controls window, the second on your ally's controls window) the rebuilders get right to work