Why don't the lazy bastards attack?

[Ruatha]

In single player I can select a ship/fleet, press attack and it will kill the designated target!
But in simultaneus PBEM the ship/fleet totally ignores my order and just sits put, pacifistic bastards.
Why don't they obey my command?

[Phoenix-D]

You are ending the turn right? Remember that in simultanious all your orders are excuted *by the host* at the end of the turn. You don't see any immediate movement or attacking.

Phoenix-D

[Ruatha]

Nope, they still sits on their lazy butts when the gamefile arrives. No movement has taken place whatever, their movement is non-existant, they are glued to their position, they are quite frankly annoying!
It doesn't matter if I want em to attack a ship or aplanet.
Can it be some configuration check-box in my client?

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Nope, they still sits on their lazy butts when the gamefile arrives. No movement has taken place whatever, their movement is non-existant, they are glued to their position, they are quite frankly annoying!
It doesn't matter if I want em to attack a ship or aplanet.
Can it be some configuration check-box in my client?

Hmmm... You are unzipping the new files into the Savegame folder right? Because if you don't unzip your new turn into that file the game will just use that Last turn thatwas unzipped there. That's only think I can think of right now.

[Ruatha]

We don't use zipped files, and yes, other move commands, build etc worx as usual, strange things are a happening in deep space!

[geoschmo]

I have had this happen to me occasionally. Not all the time though. You can't ever get them to attack? Or is this just intermitant.

Geoschmo

[capnq]

I've often made the mistake of giving an order to a ship on Sentry duty without clearing the Sentry order first. That's probably not what's happening here, though, assuming you're attacking an enemy in the same system, because the enemy's presence will clear the Sentry order.

There have been reports of things like this before on PBW, but the cause has never been found. One thing that sometimes clears the problem is shuffling the affected ships in and out of a fleet.

[Ruatha]

It's an in-system fight, and persistant. I'll try the fleet shuffling.
Thanx for the input.

[Baron Grazic]

Same thing happened to be Last turn in a PBW game.
I took over a ship via intelligence that was parked on an enemy planet, I ordered it to attack the planet it was sitting on and next turn - Nothing.
It still had the orders to attack however.
This turn, I've ordered it to 'Move' away from the planet & then move back. I'll see what happens next turn.
Another strange thing was by intelligence I took over a SS and the following turn it was attacked by a ship with Phased & Null weapons. At the end of the fight, the SS had been 'Taken' and is now back to their control.
Any noticed a bug like this with Ships taken over by intelligence?

[Skulky]

Something like this might have to do with the fact that, like in making new designs and immeadiatly retrofitting to them, the game indexes the ships wrong and for some reason it caused a glitch, but im just guessing, nothign hard.