PBW: My ships can't move

Gorgo · #1 September 13th, 2001, 07:19 PM

Thanks for all your replies!

To Geoschmo: The game is Gorgos First. Would be appreciated if you could have a look at it!

This is a game where no player uses any intelligence until the next patch (by agreement).

The game is standard 1.41, so no special movement modding is involved.
Some of the ships had a movement of 6/6, some 0/6 (retrofitted and new one, I think).

After I dissolved the fleet, still the ships wouldn't move, even those with the 6/6 movement.

They were frigates and destroyers. I think I had not moved the destroyers before, yet they were properly constructed (6 engines, no warnings).

Puke · #2 September 13th, 2001, 07:51 PM

are your other orders being carried out? i presume that your turn file is being accepted and processed correctly. if you are using a mod that the server is not, it could be concieveable that while your turn is being processed, something about the way those ships are handled conflicts with your mod and that bit is ignored.

Rich04 · #3 September 13th, 2001, 08:23 PM

When it happened to me (I was the other instance). My Fleet veered off course and parked over an allied planet. I tried over several turns to make it move to various places (even just one space away). I even changed which ship was the leader several times. It never budged. Everywhere else my empire functioned perfectly. Including other fleets. It finally moved when I split off about a half dozen ships into a second fleet. Suddenly both fleets moved with the correct orders. The original fleet was only around 20 ships and was fully supplied.

The game was Standard SE4.
No Ministers were on. (Though just before they moved I turned them all on and then off again. So this could have also helped.)
No Intel was being used (by mutual agreement)

Gorgo · #4 September 14th, 2001, 08:53 AM

This game I've created is turning against me...
Next turn, fleet that started the problem dissolved, tried to move ships into different directions - nothing moves!

Puke: I don't use any mod, just standar 1.41 for which I've created the game.
I have the impression that I also can't launch satellites at the moment, yet I could be wrong at that. Building stuff works.
I run another game on PBW with the same install where no problems of that kind occured, and this game is in the year 2410.

Rich04: I have the problem in two different systems. Both fleets are 3 - 5 ships, it's about the year 2404. Right now I'm trying what you suggested, turning all ministers on and off again. I had to make peace with my neighbour I had just started war with - depressing if you're playing a psychotic and bloodthirsty race!

Puke · #5 September 14th, 2001, 06:34 PM

sounds wierd. id be willing to take a look at it, if you wanted to give me access to the file. otherwise, i would recommend sending a copy of the savegame and a problem to description to MM with a note that says you stumped everyone here.

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Gorgo · #6 September 14th, 2001, 07:04 PM

Appreciated, Puke!

Just mail me at vradke@gmx.net and I'll send you the gamefile plus password.

Gorgo

Suicide Junkie · #7 September 14th, 2001, 08:04 PM

That seems to remind me of a "change orders" intel op, which has gotten stuck.

If you haven't tried this, you may want to now:

quote:
dissolved the fleet and then made two seperate [fleets], they moved after that

It may be the fleet creation step that gets you past the bug.