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Disabling abilities on Capital Ships

August 29, 2009 5:54:01 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

From what I've seen so far with these abilties (Ion Bolt, and the like), it's a great ability. However, when I'm making a runb for the cap ships life, is there a way to make the stupid %&#$@*& capital start to run for the edge of the gravity well AFTER it's been disabled. i.e. The disabling ability has worn off.

Have any of you found out that after a capital has been hit with this, they'll start to attack whatever is nearest to them? This isn't my problem however, due to the fact that if it's sitting there unable to move, sure, attack. However, after the ability wears off, it STAYS THERE! Which infuriates me to no degree!

So basically I have to micro-manage the stupid capitals, wasting time that could be spend elsewhere managing something else so I could have a CHANCE to save it.

 

Anyone else out there get annoyed by this?

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Reply #1 August 29, 2009 6:02:04 AM
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so you want actions to que whilst its disabled?

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Reply #2 August 29, 2009 6:12:58 AM
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That would be preferable. Or just take up the last ordered action while it was disabled. I've lost more capitals because I go back to figure out why it hasn't jumped yet, thinking they probably disabled it to find it just sitting there in the middle of 30~ ships and it's fighting back instead of running like I told it to in the first place.

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Reply #3 August 29, 2009 10:21:25 AM
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I gotta agree with this as well. Should continue previous orders.

 

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Reply #4 August 29, 2009 3:55:51 PM
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Units "forgetting" their orders is pretty annoying and happens under far too many circumstances.  The most annoying situation is when you give a move order to another gravity well, but for some reason the computer decides that your order was to follow some random unit in the target gravity well. 

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Reply #5 August 29, 2009 4:19:57 PM
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Ive not encountered this bug, are you running the most current version?

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Reply #6 August 29, 2009 9:56:18 PM
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Yes.

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Reply #7 August 30, 2009 12:48:42 AM
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Quoting Darvin3,
reply 4
Units "forgetting" their orders is pretty annoying and happens under far too many circumstances.  The most annoying situation is when you give a move order to another gravity well, but for some reason the computer decides that your order was to follow some random unit in the target gravity well. 

 

Yup. Or you're retreating your damaged cap, and it decides it needs to kill something in the current gravity well instead.

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Reply #8 August 30, 2009 2:08:40 AM
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it p@%*^#  me off when my lev. 11 cap. with upgraded everthing does that

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Reply #9 August 30, 2009 4:43:37 AM
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it p@%*^# me off when my lev. 11 cap. with upgraded everthing does that
lol

I agree with the OP. Queued orders should stay.

If it is not possible (for some coding reasons), I believe at least the "Retreat" order should be persistent.
I mean, if you order a cap to "Retreat", it should do just that no matter how many times it's hit and with what. That would solve the issue partially.

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Reply #10 August 30, 2009 11:34:34 AM
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I've noticed that sort of thing happening alot of times but not only cap ships.  I've resorted to staying in the gravity well until every ship has jumped.  I've also noticed my groups taking side routes.

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Reply #11 August 31, 2009 4:02:58 PM
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Same here Elonin. Problem is, with the huge SCALE of this game wasting time micro'ing your ships is time that could be spent elsewhere. Attacking on another front, managing your economy, etc. And I dislike having to manage my forces cause they're too stupid to realize when to run, especially after I told them to in the first place.

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Reply #12 February 5, 2010 7:42:19 AM
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Not sure how much this helps, but I've found that turning off the auto attack option for those ships moving is helpful for this.

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