very strange combat behavior -- please help

[Captain Kwok]

Seeking parasites can't target satellites, but I'm surprised none of the other ships with direct fire weapons did not fire. If possible, I'd suggest running the combat again as a test and have the strategies set so that all ships break formation...

[Dogboy]

My ships were set to break formation. But, thanks for the suggestion. I would like to rerun that battle and see if it was just a fluke, or can be fixed by changing orders. I'd hate to think that I'll run into the same bug next battle. How can I re-run the turn from PBW? Can I download the files and play around on my own machine?

One friend suggested that the "point blank" engagement order might only work when the ships are really close. But, if I have "point blank", won't they fire at longer range, but just try to move closer?

Thanks,
DB

[capnq]

Dogboy said: I would like to rerun that battle and see if it was just a fluke, or can be fixed by changing orders. I'd hate to think that I'll run into the same bug next battle. How can I re-run the turn from PBW? Can I download the files and play around on my own machine?

You'd have to be the host of the game to download the necessary files, and even in that case, you could only change your own orders to experiment with changes.

I'd suggest setting up a similar battle in the simulator, except that I don't trust the simulator's results myself.

capnq
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