Cannot heal wounds

[jamiegrover1973]

Hi,

 

I recently flew a PWCG Single Player Hawker Hurricane ground attack mission on the Moscow Map and was bounced upon by an Bf109 half way through the mission. I managed to fly home and landed successfully although my VR vision was blurred. On the combat report it claimed I landed successfully but that I was injured. However, when I press 'Mission' and press the 'heal wounds' tab nothing happens and I cannot advance to the next recoverable stage when I can continue flying again. Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance. 

[No105_Swoose]

When I have a PWCG pilot wounded I go to Activity and then Request Leave.  The program will tell you how many days of leave you need to request in order for your pilot to recover from his wounds.  I request that number of days, sometimes adding a day or two, and PWCG processes the request.  It returns me to the pilot roster as healthy and operational.  Events will take place within the squadron during the time my pilot was on leave such as planes destroyed, enemy aircraft shot down, pilots killed or seriously injured, etc.

[PatrickAWlson]

Pressing "Heal Wounds" should take you to the Leave page.  is it not doing that?

 

[jamiegrover1973]

@No195_Swoose Thanks mate for taking the time to help. It worked!!

 

@PatrickAWilson I am honoured that you are messaging me. PWCG is amazing and I love it. Keep up the great work Sir!! Now, going back to topic- No, unfortunately, when I press the 'heal wounds' tab nothing happened, however, I requested leave as No195_Swoose suggested and it allowed me to take the days required to heal as part of the leave system so I was happy to workaround this problem. Thanks again and keep up the great work.   

[PatrickAWlson]

Thanks for the report.  That's a bug that I need to fix.  The reason that button exists is that people didn't realize that they had to take leave to heal. It's doing more harm than good if it is broken.

 

Taking leave to heal is not an obvious game mechanic.  Quick explanation as to why:

PWCG didn't do that at first.  It just advanced time until you were healed.  Some time ago PWCG was changed to support coop and then to support many pilots even in single player.  it would be most upsetting if somebody was running a coop campaign and PWCG suddenly advanced time by a few months because one guy was seriously wounded.  So I just leave as a way to advance time if the player(s) want or just let the injured pilot sit in reserve and heal whenever the campaign caught back up while other pilots fly. 

[jamiegrover1973]

Pat,

 

I'm glad I could have been of some assistance. Thanks for the update and explanation. Kind regards.