Fleet Formation

tictoc · #1 March 26th, 2001, 07:43 PM

I reloaded up a previous savegame and built the ring world construction ships with every minister disabled, but i got the same results so the prob does not appear to evolve from that. There is probably a simple answer to this, but going through the motions logically it doesn't happen.

tic

mac5732 · #2 March 26th, 2001, 08:28 PM

I haven't had fleets disappear but I have had ships disappear in Tactical mode. They were not in range of any weapons nor were they hit. They didn't go over to the enemy, nor could I find them anywhere on the regular map or anywhere else in tactical.
For exmple, had 10 ships all types, vs 15 crystal dreds, my 2 middle ships just disappeared. After action battle reports showed they had been destroyed. They never fired nor took any hits, enemy fleet not even in range..... mac

AJC · #3 March 27th, 2001, 01:54 AM

Did you have fast tactical combat going? Reason I ask is because the only time I have seen this phenomenon is when tactical combat is set to fast, the hits are happening - they just dont display correctly ... especially when the ships are near the edge of the tactical combat screen.
Although you said the ships were not in range.. weird, I have never seen this happen.

As for the fleet disbanding - it seems to happen when one or more ships for one reason or another are removed from the fleet by the game like and event or intel. Its been something I have been sending saved games to MM about several times myself.

[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 26 March 2001).]

tictoc · #4 March 27th, 2001, 11:56 AM

My fleet was formed in peacetime, there is no engagement, i can see the ships grouped together on the main display where they ended their movement turn, if i click on the fleet the individual ships that make up the fleet are displayed, but the fleet is not displayed in the ships/units window only the individual ships that make up the fleet are there. So i have to assign each individual ships new orders and not as a fleet.

tic

mac5732 · #5 March 28th, 2001, 08:08 PM

AJC combat was in normal tactical mode, i don't usually use fast speed. This has happened to me on at least 3 different occasions and all during the tactical combat phase, however, it is always the middle ships as I normally use a battle line depending on numbers of ships/ftrs involved.
At first I thought they were being stolen, but after checking, this was not the case.
?????? mac

AJC · #6 March 29th, 2001, 02:29 AM

It would be good to get a saved game to send to MM. it would be helpful if you start saving before battles - once it happens again, then save the game again under a different name and send both of the games to Aaron and describe what happened. I have not seen this happen -ever- and my opponent I having testing with when we play our hotseat games has never seen it - But I will start watching for it in the beta code.