Ships didn't ram

Ed Kolis · #1 July 3rd, 2003, 01:56 AM

This is odd... One of my fleets was damaged and out of supplies and I was losing money on maintenance, so I set their fleet strategy to kamikaze, trying to solve a few problems at once

Well, only a few of the ships actually tried to engage the enemy... the rest just moved back and forth in the corner... any idea why this happened?

Slynky · #2 July 3rd, 2003, 02:08 AM

It could be the default strategy defined to the ships IF you had the ships break formation.

Ed Kolis · #3 July 3rd, 2003, 04:45 AM

Even some of my armed ships with "Optimal Firing Range" strategy sat around... of course, maybe their weapons were damaged...

Fyron · #4 July 3rd, 2003, 04:53 AM

A ship with no supplies can not fire it's weapons. Maybe the ships thought they could not ram because they had no supplies? If so, you may have found a bug.

[ July 03, 2003, 03:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Stone Mill · #5 July 3rd, 2003, 03:54 PM

I've seen this... I think ships out of supply can't move at all. Perhaps some of the ships that were able to move had a fraction of supply left.

I've lost entire fleets like sitting ducks when they lost supply.

Suicide Junkie · #6 July 3rd, 2003, 04:46 PM

Ahah!

You had the fleet set to Kamikaze, but the ships with damaged weapons broke formation, and followed their own orders which involved running away since they have no weapons!