Can\'t rejoin split fleet?
 

62 ships attack a planet with 15 mines in orbit, get message 14 mines were swept, had enough sweepers to sweep hundreds. Rout the planet easily, apparently took no damage. Fleet splits, like it often does after a combat, regardless of whether I win or lose. (rolls eyes) The past 3-4 times this has happened I've been able to move one or the other split fleets back ontop of the other and they magically merge again. (You get a free fantasy game with this scifi game!)

This time, no dice, I've renamed fleets, spun a couple turns by, can't move the fleet over the planet (named WTF for obvious reasons). The fleet trapped planet should have forty ships in it but shows up empty when right clicked. Whatever defense they used, I want it. Make people think twice about attacking you if you get to magically whisk away 60% of the attacking force after they splatter your planet!

I'd read about the fleet splitting bug when you retreat, there is also a splitting bug when you win.

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No, the splitting bug is when you retreat. Your non-combat ships are *retreating* during the combat, to avoid getting shot at. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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OH, OK. Have you had any luck reforming them? Because this time the fleet left on the planet is stuck, like with crazy glue. It's funny to watch the game react. I moved the free fleet back to the neighboring system and the game does a double take on the warp sound. I rename the fleet still stuck on the planet and tell it to move to the wormhole and bada-bing, the fleet I warped out the previous team warps back in, with the new name I just gave the fleet over the planet. Frankly, if you can't rejoin the fleet, it's a game breaker. The other thing I noticed was once the free fleet left the system I could once again SEE ships in the fleet stuck over the planet. This is a pretty nasty bug.

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The fleets breaking up in the first place is the problem.

Retreat opens up such a can of worms, eh?
I wish I could leave the border on and also prevent retreat (steel cage match battles)

Re: Can\'t rejoin split fleet?
 

Its more or less random, as far as I can tell. At least until the bug gets fixed. :/

Have you tried removing all the ships from both fleets and making a new one?

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Great, WWF Fleet Battles!

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That's worked in the past, not this time though.

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Isn't it possible to alter the 'Don't get hurt' strategy to, say, have the ships stay a certain distance away from the enemy, instead of retreating completely?

Well, nevermind that, looks like whatever strategy you set up it'll be overruled for some reason. I gave two ships with weapons and two without the exact same strategy, i.e. no retreat. The ships with weapons went straight ahead, the weaponless retreated at once.

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There's another setting that determines if weaponless ships retreat, Raapys. You have to alter that as well. Its set in the strategies themselves, near the top.

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Yeah, I tried that. I actually put all the TRUE/FALSE toggles to FALSE. Doesn't make any difference at all O_O

I think the setting you are refering to is the Retreat When All Weapons Damaged thing, but it only seem to matter if the ships had weapons in the first place.