fleets not attacking colony ships

capnq · #1 August 10th, 2002, 07:50 PM

"Don't fire on ships with no weapons" is another possibility.

Kimball · #2 August 10th, 2002, 08:07 PM

I have check those possibilities and that does not seem to be the case. However, I do have some ships in those fleets that are set as "Don't get Hurt." I wonder if for some reasons the settings of those ships are overriding the fleet settings.

Kimball · #3 August 11th, 2002, 02:45 AM

All right, I think I figured it out. It just now dawned on me that the fleets guarding the warp point are sitting on the warp point in a nebulae system. Does that make sense to anyone?

Taz-in-Space · #4 August 11th, 2002, 02:49 AM

Yea, It sounds VERY familiar. I have also done this same thing, not realizing that the nebula itself provides cloaking.

Phoenix-D · #5 August 11th, 2002, 02:50 AM

Yep. They may not be able to see the ships to attack them. If that's the case you might as well pull them out of the nebula; they won't be of any use there.

Phoenix-D

dumbluck · #6 August 11th, 2002, 12:29 PM

If one puts MINES in a nebula/storm system, will they attack enemy ships? (assuming that sufficient sensors aren't present)

Kimball · #7 August 11th, 2002, 05:31 PM

My hyper optics allow me to see the ships, and cloaked ships, that are in the nebulae. I would think I would be able to attack them too. Oh, well, I will plop a sensor ship down in there so I can at least see them coming.