Where do we see the countdown timer on a pending battle?

[HBizzle]

?

[Xavier]

How do you mean?

[HBizzle]

SO an ally just got attacked and we would like to jump to it.  However, our jumpship will not be ready to jump for 8 hours, want to make sure I am not jumping to this planet to arrive late.

[Xavier]

Understood. Right now you have to do mental time-arithmetic (the battle-launched time is in Eastern), but I had thought about that the other night, too -- it would be nice to have something that just told you "there are this many hours and seconds before lockdown". I'll work on that.




Also know that the 18-hour window is not absolute; whether or not reinforcements can jump in or not, is currently based on the battle status, which is not set until I run the forcedecs (which is manual, at this time, but will be automated soon). So the 18-hour window is a minimum; if someone were to launch an attack right after I ran the forcedecs on, say, a Friday, then you could jump in reinforcements until I run them again on Saturday (so it could possibly be as much as 24 hours in reality).

I will announce the change to an automated forcedec-generation system once I have one working, but for now, it's still manual.

[HBizzle]

There is currently a battle on illushin in Taurian Concordant, if I jump around 10 PM EDT tonight will our unit be able to get forces to this battle in time to assist our ally?

[Thumper9669]

Since we just got our warning today if you jump in 8 hours you should be good still. As it was said there is an 18  hour window +/- to get troops in.

[Xavier]

Added -- when you click Battle Reporting in your automation UI, the list should show (under the Attack Date) the time remaining until forcedec is "eligible" for generation. For example, "T-13:53" means "13 hours, 53 minutes remaining".

[BanditB17]

good add! Would be nice to see it for battles we don't own yet, but this is better than nothing.