First a short preamble: I've read the forum rules and this seems to be the appropriate place to post, although I don't come here often. If I've stepped on toes, or broken rules, I apologize in advance. That done, I've noticed that on a couple of the revised (official) maps, like Cyclopean or Snowbound that starting (i.e. pre-built) refineries often cannot be replaced. For example, I know for a certainty that if the refinery of the main NF base on Snowbound is sabotaged and dies, you cannot place a new refinery in it's place. (I've tested this a few different ways.) I have not personally tested every other pre-built refinery on every other map, but I've seen this work on Cyclopean, Snowbound, and even Escort so it stands to reason that this is a map builder oversight or other programming bug. (Not that I'm blaming map builders, this is meant to be helpful, not an attack.) pickled_heretic, axeman, and maybe others have mentioned that this might be fixed via duplicate placement of a "real" refinery under the prebuilt one, (or somesuch) but I myself am rather ignorant of both mapmaking and programming, so I brought it here in the hopes that someone else might shed some light on the problem and maybe fix it.
Oops! Sorry, I should have been more specific: it's the Vehicle Factory on Escort that never comes back if it's sab'd. Anyway, it's the same principle, I think.
I think this is code-related, as the prebuilt refineries are set up to act like the commander has placed, but they are not exactly the same. The vehicle factory not respawning may be due to the way it's set to respawn, it uses the "OnKill" output, which may not trigger if it's sabotaged. That's something that only a coder can really give us the full answer to, though.
