Strategic combat has more bugs than my backyard!

[CW]

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In all fights their are random things that can happen

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Do you guys even read my Posts? I'm talking about the UNPREDICTABLE BEHAVIOUR that's driving me mad! It has got nothing to do with randomness! Just tonight my ships behaved TOTALLY differently in the simulator in strategic vs tactical mode, resulting in some totally abnormal results. The only thing that moves on the enemy's side is a ship that doesn't shoot back so the problem is with my own ships. When I ran the simulator in strategic mode (repeated 6 or 7 times) they performed ok, all the ships followed orders, headed for the planet and ignored the enemy ship. But when I switched to tactical mode all hell broke lose! The ships spreaded out, some headed to who-knows-where, one of the DN somehow chased after the enemy ship when it was ordered not to. What's even more amazing it fired ONLY its shield depleter at the ship! The ships that actually reached the planet shot at the sats first, when they were told to hit the planet and forget everything else. THEN the whole thing went crazy - I switched back strategic mode, but the ships started to behave exactly as they did in tactical! What if I want them to actually follow my orders again? Just quit the simulator and re-enter it, then everything's back to normal.

Doesn't it need fixing??? SHOULD I EXPECT THEM TO FOLLOW MY ORDERS OR NOT???


[This message has been edited by CW (edited 29 August 2001).]

[geoschmo]

You are right CW, the simulator does have some issues. My suggestion would be to document everything as completely as possible, and send an email to Se4@malfador.com. Including a .gam file.

My point, and I think Puke's point, although I am not trying to speak for him, was that although the simulator may be a bit buggy, actual in game strategic combat pretty much follows the rules, once you understand them.

I was responding more to the title of the thread and the comments related to that than I was your comments about the simulator problems.

Geoschmo

[Puke]

beats me man. i dont think anyone else has been seeing the same problems that you have, or else they would be jumping to your defense. Without actually seeing what you are doing, i cant really guess at what is going wrong, aside from my earlier comments.

The only problems I have with the simulator are those that I mentioned earlier. The only poor results that it gives me are based on its poopey handling of fleets, and the fact that I often do not know the stratagies and target priorities that enemy ships are using.

other than that, it seems to work fine. granted, some of those problems I mentioned really suck and need to be fixed, especially the fleet thing that you brought up as well, but the other problems that you are mentioning I honestly have not noticed. and its not for a lack of using the simulator.

[CW]

Maybe my language was a bit too strong, I apologise. Just discovered that my "auto-disbanding fleet" problem may be related to the simulator or ship building screen. When ever I finished with the sim I would discover that this fleet of 4 is disbanded, cancelling all orders I gave. Anyone know what's going on?

[CW]

Maybe it is not the simulator and ship building screen, since I can't reproduce the problem again.

[tesco samoa]

Ahh I have now figured out how to add units.


But I still want *hope* them to completely rewrite the combat engine.

Who wants to be a George C. Marshell when you can be a Desert Fox.

The simulator as it stands now is next to useless.

And Strategic Combat only makes me shake my head and wonder why the computer decided to have Marvin the robot take over all my ships and help them commit suicide.

Oh well. Make do with what ya got.



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[Lemmy]

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Originally posted by CW:
That's because you chose populsion expert as your racial tech, all of your ships get an extra movement point.

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uhm..no i didn't, sometimes i get 5 movement, sometimes 6.