Will they ever fix the port blockade bug?

**Agent Smith** · 04-03-2007, 18:47

Originally Posted by rvg

Ships are free to leave the blockaded port without having to fight the blockading fleet, unless the port is completely surrounded.

Oddly enough, I just noticed this the other night. I was able to move a fleet into my blockaded port, too.

At the same time, I've been playing RTW and MTW for some time, and the first time I noticed it was a few days ago. Maybe it really isn't that important

**Csargo** · 04-03-2007, 20:24

Never noticed it probably never would have if you wouldn't have pointed it out.

**IrishArmenian** · 04-03-2007, 22:22

Same with Ichigo.

**HoreTore** · 04-03-2007, 23:22

I really, really cannot see how this makes "an entire strategis element of the game redundant"...

Ok, an enemy can leave his port with a ship? The only instance I can see this important at all, is when he has loaded an army onto that ship. And it can be fixed by simply having a second ship blockading the port at another angle...

**Nebuchadnezzar** · 04-04-2007, 02:55

I don't think this was a confirmed bug. Didn't ships run blockades?

Strange how this can be affecting the entire strategy of the game and other more important things are not.

**Whacker** · 04-04-2007, 03:27

Doubtful I'd classify this as a bug, but I support rvg's position. If you've got a blockade going, the only way that ships made during the port siege should be able to get out is by lifting the blockade through battle. If unsuccessful or a draw the blockade stands and the ships stay in port, if successful then it's lifted and you can go your merry way. As for "drastically impacting gameplay" I gotta disagree, but in principle I support rvg's stance.

**Temujin** · 04-04-2007, 08:34

I too agree that this is a problem for the strategic game. Since patch 1.1, the AI is happily conducting naval invasions, and this brings the problem to the fore.

I'm currently playing a game as Milan, and fighting a war against Sicily over Sardinia and Corsica, and enemy armies are everywhere over the islands. Even though my fleet is vastly superior to the Sicilian, I cannot use it to prevent them reinforcing their invasions, or conducting new ones. Even sinking everything bearing the Sicilian banner, and blockading the port of Palermo, the Sicilians will simply build a single boat in that port, load it with a stack of troops, and sail straight through my blockade to land those troops near Cagliari, in a single move. Splitting my fleets up in smaller chunks is no solution, as the pirates or the French (Sicilian allies) would then take it apart with ease. The florins I paid to build that fleet now seem wasted. *sigh*