That sounds like a bug

Another confirmation here. Although I don't even have to wait for the first strike craft to build. I can queue up the max number, then dequeue them and go for the other type, and the maximum number of both kinds will be built (eventually).

This happens for hangar defenses as well, but you have to make sure you do it after the hangar is finished building (you are allowed to queue strike craft beforehand, but it won't experience this bug in that case).

Yep, I'd like add my own confirmation. I noticed this when I switched some light carriers to bombers from fighters, and then later decided to go back to fighters.

i think it takes same time to scuttle fighters as if fighter loses it host ship...

IE, LONG.

A particularly nasty exploit. You have to use it. You end up using it anyway when you switch up.

Another confirmation here. Only maybe some more detail would help? It does not matter how long the first wing of strike craft has been building. If you change immediately, they both still build AND are maintained by the carrier/hanger/capital ship.

Thats the big problem making mp games a bit undesirable. You cant make a gentlemans agreement to not use this exploit , as people will accidently use this exploit when switching.

This is why Ironclad should release a hotfix asap .

It does make it particularly hard to test the balance of certain units when the whole game is thrown out of wack with a new superunit. I'd say that carriers easily eclipse the Illuminator as far as unbalanced goes with this bug.

I'm surprised we've not heard a peep from the devs about this. Or did they reply in another thread?

I'm waiting for this bug to be fixed to play the beta...As all the games i've done so far seem to devolve into the losing party abusing this bug to try and win .

-Drexion

i've had that happened to me on my tec carrier capital ship. i thought it was auto fighter that was added for the carrier since it was hence a 'carrier'. but it was when i built a bomer that it came out. i was like cool, i thought my carrier already had a fighter squadron escort for free and then made a choice to whether to stay on fighters or go bomers with my free fighter squadron protecting my new bomer squadron.

if this is an exploit then its too bad for capital carriers, but if it is part of the beta then it would be neat to have a free fighter squadron for a capital carrier. that way your first bomer will have a cover for other fighters just incase or decide if you want to go full fighter spam for someone whos trying to do bomer runs.

actually i just played around with this glitch and it effects everything including the vasari scramble bombers ability.
I literally scrambled 15 bombers and i could keep going that really needs to be fixed.
then again they only last for about 1 min.