Ya, it's been there since I can remember. If you reselect the fleet, and tell it "Form Fleet" again, it seems to solve the problem. And luckily, it's just one ship that get's homesick   

I've never had that happen...

I've never had it happen either.

But I have to note that I abanndonned using fleets. I got so sick of giving one ship in the fleet a special mission and having the whole fleet jump after it, that I just use the number groups now and avoid all fleet buttons. Things work much better without fleets. Especially having more than 1 fleet in the same gravity well.

just because you didn't notice one lone ship sitting on the edge of your star well is meaningless since it obviously happens quite frequently. I can make it go happen any time I want its easily replicable.

Here is what I don't get about fleets. I always select the Move together option so my fleet supposedly will jump at the same time, but that doesn't always happen. Once I start getting larger fleets they won't all jump together.

What I mean by this is that when I tell a medium to large fleet to jump together the majority of the fleet will get into position and then jump, but will leave 5-15 ships behind and those ships havn't even started to charge up their jump. This can be annoying when the ships left behind are mainly Cap ships and the majority of my fleet jumps straight into the enemies fleet. So then I have to wait for the Cap ships left behind to get into position, charge the jump, and then make the trip to the planet while the enemy fleet is enjoying themselves as they attack my Cap shipless fleet.

I know that in a collective jump, ships jump at different times for a nice visual effect that looks awesome, but my fleets aren't jumping collectively. I would prefer that my fleets wait until every ship is in ready position to make the jump before they start their jump.

I highly doubt it, but if you wish to claim that one of the most prevailant bugs in the game is not present in yours good for you.

You do know the only way you see it happening is if a ship autojoins your fleet that is in the gravwell that the ship was made in, and already has a move order issued to the fleet to a different system, and that the new ship adopts this move order? Those are the exact things that have to happen for the bug to replicate itself. Give the ship a move order after that and it fixes itself.

But then again your copy is perfect and has no problems. *rollseyes*

Ya, Kit is correct about the group-jump: They purposely changed group-jump so only 90% of the fleet needs to be ready to initiate a jump. Before that, just ONE little ship that could not get into formation would always hold up the enitre fleet from jumping. Beleive me, it's much better this way   

How the game is patched can make a big difference to some of these bugs.

In past expereince, I've seen bugs in the early versions continue into later versions, but those who installed the later versions instead of upgrading from the original using all the patches, didnt have have the same problems.

In this case, it could be that upgrading each patch, doesnt actually fix the issue, where going disc version straight to 1.05 does work. That would account for why I havent seen it, since thats what I did.

I've seen an example in another game, where the devs claimed that they had fixed a problem with a patch, and yet the problem remained. But when I uninstalled the patch, things actually improved dramatically. Which led me to suspect, that the patch should have deleted the existing code and installed the new code, and because it wasnt deleted, something of the original problem still existed and was sabotaging the patch. These things happen.

As a game gets older and more patched, sometimes its best to reinstall it from scratch, and patch to the latest version, bypassing all other patches.