Why don't the lazy bastards attack?

[Phoenix-D]

You are ending the turn right? Remember that in simultanious all your orders are excuted *by the host* at the end of the turn. You don't see any immediate movement or attacking.

Phoenix-D

[Ruatha]

Nope, they still sits on their lazy butts when the gamefile arrives. No movement has taken place whatever, their movement is non-existant, they are glued to their position, they are quite frankly annoying!
It doesn't matter if I want em to attack a ship or aplanet.
Can it be some configuration check-box in my client?

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Nope, they still sits on their lazy butts when the gamefile arrives. No movement has taken place whatever, their movement is non-existant, they are glued to their position, they are quite frankly annoying!
It doesn't matter if I want em to attack a ship or aplanet.
Can it be some configuration check-box in my client?

Hmmm... You are unzipping the new files into the Savegame folder right? Because if you don't unzip your new turn into that file the game will just use that Last turn thatwas unzipped there. That's only think I can think of right now.

[Ruatha]

We don't use zipped files, and yes, other move commands, build etc worx as usual, strange things are a happening in deep space!

[geoschmo]

I have had this happen to me occasionally. Not all the time though. You can't ever get them to attack? Or is this just intermitant.

Geoschmo

[capnq]

I've often made the mistake of giving an order to a ship on Sentry duty without clearing the Sentry order first. That's probably not what's happening here, though, assuming you're attacking an enemy in the same system, because the enemy's presence will clear the Sentry order.

There have been reports of things like this before on PBW, but the cause has never been found. One thing that sometimes clears the problem is shuffling the affected ships in and out of a fleet.

[Ruatha]

It's an in-system fight, and persistant. I'll try the fleet shuffling.
Thanx for the input.