Add a retreat function to the warship execution class and increase the healing rate of warships when near a port

[Maddox-Walpole]

The Problem
It is extremely frustrating when a damaged warship charges into battle and dies while other, healthier warships could have defeated the enemy warships without causalities.

My Proposed Solution

• Keep the passive 1 health gain per tick when the warship owner has a port.

• Add a more substantial health gain per tick (perhaps 5 or even 10 health per tick) when within a specified radius of the owners port.

• If the warships health goes below a certain threshold and there are no enemy warships within range then path find to the nearest port and stay within the healing radius of the port for "repairs" until fully healed.

Conclusion
My solution would make warships more intelligent when it comes to coordinating with a fleet and it would remove the need to micro damaged warships that might unnecessarily throw themselves into the line of fire.

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🔗 Similar Issues

Related Issues

• Add Boat Retreat #486
• AFK teammates capturing should be polished #2258
• Ship Speed Penalty Based on Troop Load #979
• Warship Repositioning System #121
• Trade ships spawn too fast when there are many ports and few trade ships #1703
• Increase sources of income when there is no eligible trade partner (Factories/Ports) #2499

👤 Suggested Assignees

• APuddle210
• Redincon
• ERHash
• BrunoJurkovic
• evanpelle

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[iiamlewis]

I like this idea, if anyone wants to pick this up and let me know they are running with it we can get it assigned to a milestone

[bosconian-dynamics]

I feel that the automatic return-to-port functionality should be omitted (or manually enabled by the player), as it may interfere with the warship's defense role, providing windows of opportunity to sneak transports through when a damaged warship wanders halfway across the map for a repair 😅

If it is to be included and automatic, perhaps restrict it to finding ports to within a limited fraction of it's wander radius. I think this is a more palatable compromise, effectively only utilizing the feature if there is minimal risk of undermining the player's manually established defense.