I've never seen this either, interesting.

As for carriers, well, the way fleets are set up is that every ship in a fleet follows the leader in formation

I don't have a picture of it, but it has happened to me as well. Usually, it occurs after I remove a ship from one fleet and add it to another, or cancel the auto-join fleet order. The ship will hang out at the edge of the gravity well, as if it is trying to rejoin its previous fleet. When I give combat orders to the new fleet, the ship will join with its new fleet for the action, then move back to the distant position.

Im wondering, if you try to phase somewhere else, and you have it on group phase, do they just sit there then and wait for that guy? or do they ignore him like he doenst exist?

I had this happen multiple times in my most recent game. It's even more annoying when the guy hanging around the edge is a cap ship. Sometimes disbanding the fleet and reforming it would take care of it, but what really seemed to do the trick was changing the fleet formation to loose. I never ran into the problem again after switching them all over.

I don't know if it's related or not, but I've also had a few instances of a fleet getting stuck on the edge of the grav well trying to reform or something similar... the whole fleet jumped in and then just sat there and did nothing, despite several enemies being in firing range.

Flashy effects: 1
Practical Strategy: 0

(although as I said, it isn't really that big of a deal strategy wise, i'm just a smart ass)



Idk, it just happens, usually after I build a frigate in a grav well, sometimes they auto-fleet, sometimes they don't, seems random but once one fails, the any subsequent ones will as well.

am i doing something wrong here? or would this be something that needs to be addressed in patch? i dont want to have to make half my fleet "leave fleet" just to be strategic with it...

Email it to support@ironcladgames.com and add a note what they should be looking at. Thanks

Thanks for the addy. It's sent.

Lemme know if they want more information. I just played a game and saved at the exact point when it was happening. Hope it gets fixed in the next patch.

I've seen this same sort of wierd behavior with some ships in a fleet, and usually it was with ships that I had added to an exisiting fleet (perhaps by merging two fleets together or pulling them from another fleet).

Anyway, what it looks like is happening is that the newly added ships are not inheriting the original fleet's settings, so their move and attack settings don't match the rest of the fleet's, so they act wierd. You can then easily fix this behavior by:
1 - right-clicking on the move button to cycle through the choices, back to your preferred (ie: move as full group)
2 - click through all the engagement options to cycle back to the one you want (ie: gravity well)
3 - click through all the fleet separation choices to cycle back through to the one you want

So now when I add new ships to my fleet, especially if merging from another fleet, I do the above, and I haven't seen any of these problems since.

This happens all the time. Selecting your fleet and then clicking "create fleet" again usually fixes it.

Yeah. If you're curious, the bug was incredibly obscure - if you put a rally point and the last ship to join the fleet did not reach it before you gave the fleet a jump order, that ship would always want to go back to the rally point. It was always the last ship to join the fleet.

Took over half a year to finally track down, and 5 minutes (literally) to fix. Awesome