Help my ships won't attack

[capnq]

If you have a treaty higher than Non-Interaction, they aren't your "enemy", and you can't attack them.

If you can give a ship the Sentry (hotkey Y) order, and it doesn't immediately clear in a sequential game, or on your next turn in a simultaneous game, they're allied ships.

[ November 25, 2002, 05:03: Message edited by: capnq ]

[Ruatha]

But if they aren't enemies they shouldn't even go into combat mode, now they go to conmbat mode but don't close, just sits there for 30 turns.
Have I understood the problem?
What strategies have you tried for your ships/fleets?

[Suicide Junkie]

we are closing with them and remaining in the same space but no combat happens.

Since you can't get into the same combat square without ramming, I take this to mean that they are sharing a system sector, and are not getting into the combat mode/window.

[PvK]

There also won't be a combat if your own ships are cloaked, and they can't see yours.

PvK

[ShadeD1]

DOH!...my ally had captured them the turn before and they both have the same race icon...I had to open his turn to figure it out...thanks for all the suggestions guys

[Grandpa Kim]

Actually all you had to do was right click on the empire icon in the top left corner of the ship screen. This opens the empires details telling you, among other things, the name of the empire.