Ship/ships trying to leave combat on there own?

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Hey there people.  I've been noticing this in my past few games i've played recently.  When I start a fight I usally tend to end up having 1 or 2 ships that decied they would rather try to jump out of the fight, instead of actully fighting.  I don't tend to notice it tell the fight is 1/2 way over most times.  

I was wondering if anyone else has been seeing this as well, and if so if they have an idea why it happens. 

Normaly I get a fleet grouped togeather, set them on group jump, send them to the planet I plan to have a fight at, let them auto pick there targets, go work on upgrades or what ever else I have going on, check in on the fight and find that 1 or 2 ships is at the edge of the well trying to leave.  Typicaly I just select them and send them back into the fight, but its started to become more common and for the life of me I can't figure out what I'm missing when I send them in.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Yes I noticed this too. It might be a bug associated with fleet pathing. I also have seen ships that ignored my group/fleet move orders and attempt system jumps, even though the group obviously included the misbehaving ships
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah it happend to me again, this time I was watching the fleet to see what it would do. Seems that right after one ship in the fleet i'm attacking dies 1 or 2 of mine try to jump out of the well. It seems to only happen when I'm attacking neutral ships though. If i'm going after an AI or an Humans fleet it doesn't happen.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Hmm. Never had this.

What type of ship is trying to jump out?

Any chance they're part of a fleet that's in another system?
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I hate it when support ships decide "You go fight the good fight, I'll just chill out here with my pals" and just go away..
Plus, I noticed that for some reason, after entering a system, fleets tend to go to one corner of the planet circle and just... park themselves there, as far away from anything as possible... WTF is with that?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Hmm. Never had this.What type of ship is trying to jump out?Any chance they're part of a fleet that's in another system?
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It doesn't seem to matter what race I'm using really. It seems that when I have 1 cap with 3-5 light frigs. At least 1-2 of the frigs will try to leave the area once 1 of the neutral ships has been destroyed.

Its really strange, cause they don't actuly leave the system. They just hang out at the edge waiting for the rest of the battle group.

And for the other question, there just grouped into 1 fleet when it happens.