Fleets pass each other by??

[DavidG]

Has anyone else notice this annoying fleet behavior? in a multi simultaneaous game I see an enemy fleet approching. So I give my fleet attack orders and then during movement replay next turn I watch as they sail past each other often occupying the same spot. Espcially annoying one time as the planet my fleet left got glassed by the other fleet.

[Bman]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Has anyone else notice this annoying fleet behavior? in a multi simultaneaous game I see an enemy fleet approching. So I give my fleet attack orders and then during movement replay next turn I watch as they sail past each other often occupying the same spot. Espcially annoying one time as the planet my fleet left got glassed by the other fleet.

This happened to me once, costing me 2 colony ships.
When I played the movement replay, my ships would move first, then the enemies. So, my ships would move into his sector, then his ships would move out (towards my colony ships). Then my ships would move into his sector, then his ships would move out. This repeated until his ships moved into my colony ship sector. There was combat which killed my colony ships. Then my attack ships again moved into his sector, and since his ships had no more orders they sat there and combat occured and I killed his ships. It was real annoying.

[Suicide Junkie]

Were they both moving on the same turn-day?

[Baron Munchausen]

If your fleet and his had the same speed, that is how it's supposed to happen. Don't look at the fleet positions on the screen, look at their relative speeds. It might have looked like your fleet was catching up due to turn order, but if speed was the same they were not.

[Bman]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
If your fleet and his had the same speed, that is how it's supposed to happen. Don't look at the fleet positions on the screen, look at their relative speeds. It might have looked like your fleet was catching up due to turn order, but if speed was the same they were not.

We moved at the same speed but in OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. My attack fleet was between his fleet and my colony ships. Since we had the same speed, I naturally assumed that when I gave my ships the attack order, they would intercept him, not just fly by and then circle around and chase (and never catchup as you are saying).

[Gryphin]

BMan,
Is it possible that your fleet went to the point the enemy fleet was when you gave the Attack order and then turned to follow it??
If so, that makes for a very nasty "issue"

[ June 14, 2002, 20:51: Message edited by: The High Gryphin ]