Why don't the lazy bastards attack?

geoschmo · #1 August 1st, 2002, 08:08 PM

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 · #2 August 1st, 2002, 08:19 PM

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 · #3 August 1st, 2002, 08:24 PM

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

Baron Grazic · #4 August 2nd, 2002, 12:57 AM

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 · #5 August 2nd, 2002, 03:18 AM

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.

Ruatha · #6 August 3rd, 2002, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:
Hum,

Last time I had this problem, I started yelling and insulting the game until I discovered th

hmm, Haven't discovered "Th" yet.

The Shifting in and out of fleets solved the problem!

[ August 02, 2002, 12:11: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Unknown_Enemy · #7 August 3rd, 2002, 01:10 AM

Hum,

Last time I had this problem, I started yelling and insulting the game until I discovered that my just retrofitted warships were some "Charles De Gaulle carrier types". IE I forgot to put engines on the design.

Just an idea...