Can't rejoin split fleet?

StarJack · #1 December 7th, 2006, 10:18 PM

OH, OK. Have you had any luck reforming them? Because this time the fleet left on the planet is stuck, like with crazy glue. It's funny to watch the game react. I moved the free fleet back to the neighboring system and the game does a double take on the warp sound. I rename the fleet still stuck on the planet and tell it to move to the wormhole and bada-bing, the fleet I warped out the previous team warps back in, with the new name I just gave the fleet over the planet. Frankly, if you can't rejoin the fleet, it's a game breaker. The other thing I noticed was once the free fleet left the system I could once again SEE ships in the fleet stuck over the planet. This is a pretty nasty bug.

Suicide Junkie · #2 December 7th, 2006, 10:33 PM

The fleets breaking up in the first place is the problem.

Retreat opens up such a can of worms, eh?
I wish I could leave the border on and also prevent retreat (steel cage match battles)

StarJack · #3 December 7th, 2006, 10:35 PM

Great, WWF Fleet Battles!

Phoenix-D · #4 December 7th, 2006, 10:34 PM

Its more or less random, as far as I can tell. At least until the bug gets fixed. :/

Have you tried removing all the ships from both fleets and making a new one?

StarJack · #5 December 7th, 2006, 10:37 PM

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Phoenix-D said:
Its more or less random, as far as I can tell. At least until the bug gets fixed. :/

Have you tried removing all the ships from both fleets and making a new one?

That's worked in the past, not this time though.

Raapys · #6 December 7th, 2006, 10:54 PM

Isn't it possible to alter the 'Don't get hurt' strategy to, say, have the ships stay a certain distance away from the enemy, instead of retreating completely?

Well, nevermind that, looks like whatever strategy you set up it'll be overruled for some reason. I gave two ships with weapons and two without the exact same strategy, i.e. no retreat. The ships with weapons went straight ahead, the weaponless retreated at once.

Phoenix-D · #7 December 8th, 2006, 01:47 AM

There's another setting that determines if weaponless ships retreat, Raapys. You have to alter that as well. Its set in the strategies themselves, near the top.

Raapys · #8 December 8th, 2006, 10:03 AM

Yeah, I tried that. I actually put all the TRUE/FALSE toggles to FALSE. Doesn't make any difference at all O_O

I think the setting you are refering to is the Retreat When All Weapons Damaged thing, but it only seem to matter if the ships had weapons in the first place.