Bug or feature - Ships lose orders when damaged?

MegaTrain · #1 October 8th, 2001, 11:16 PM

(Got swallowed inside another thread, I'll ask it here...)

I command a ship to fly through a black hole system with damaging warp points to a system on the other side. The ship is equipped with sufficient armor, shields and a repair component, so I'm not worried. It also has enough range to fly completely through the system and out the other warp.

HOWEVER! As soon as the ship enters the system and is damaged, it clears the orders! (I'm sure it was just the armor that was damaged, although it fixed it before I could verify there was nothing else damaged)

And if the warp point was even 1 square closer to the center (warp points appearing anywhere in system), it would have sucked my ship down before I had the chance to give it new orders! (PBW game)

All ministers are off, empire options are set to NOT clear orders when entering another system.

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-MegaTrain-
Athlon 1.3 GHz running at 1.6 GHz on an iWill KK266

Intruder13 · #2 October 9th, 2001, 12:59 AM

Hmm... featured bug?

"All ministers are off, empire options are set to NOT clear orders when entering another system."

-Seems like a bug to me, but it could be stupidity (of the AI)...

If it was a feature, the settings should override it.

[This message has been edited by Intruder13 (edited 09 October 2001).]

Verigen · #3 October 11th, 2001, 05:31 PM

I believe that this is a feature and I hate it!!! It makes things very hard in the Ultimate mod due to any attempts to cross a pulsar or any other aria of space that consecutively damages ships. You constantly have to give the ship new orders just to cross a void aria of space. I can't stand it!!!

MegaTrain · #4 October 12th, 2001, 06:29 PM

If this IS truly a bug, do I need to report it to someone? Or do the "powers that be" read this forum?

To me, it at the very least needs to be an option that can be turned off. Maybe a "Ships lose orders when damaged" option in the same section with "Ships lose orders when entering a system with an enemy presence".

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-MegaTrain-
Athlon 1.3 GHz running at 1.6 GHz on an iWill KK266