Fleets pass each other by??

[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.