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Auto-colonization?

Why?

December 16, 2008 10:18:19 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I just started a game as vasari, and got the colony capital ship, with the colonization ability. I turned the colonization abillity OFF auto cast yet it appears to do nothing. I made the capital into a fleet leader and whenever the fleet arrives at a neutral well it rushes to colonise the planet. anyone else experiance this?

 

EDIT

re-toggleing the ability made no diffrence either

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Reply #1 December 16, 2008 10:42:00 PM
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I tested with auto-colonize disabled on the Advent capital and it was fine. Sure you didn't have another ship there?

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Reply #2 December 16, 2008 10:48:37 PM
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I've had this problem with TEC. I haven't tested it with any other race yet.

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Reply #3 December 16, 2008 10:49:30 PM
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nothing but some assailents and skirmishers, i'll see if it happens again

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Reply #4 December 17, 2008 12:30:22 AM
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Quoting ,
quoting post

I just started a game as vasari, and got the colony capital ship, with the colonization ability. I turned the colonization abillity OFF auto cast yet it appears to do nothing. I made the capital into a fleet leader and whenever the fleet arrives at a neutral well it rushes to colonise the planet. anyone else experiance this?

 

EDIT

re-toggleing the ability made no diffrence either

 

I've noticed the same thing. After a bit though, for me, it seems that using the auto-cast stops working completely and the ship'll just sit next to the planet until I tell it to colonize.

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Reply #5 December 17, 2008 12:54:16 AM
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well after i stoped the order to colonize(after it jumped) it didn't colonize the planet, so it's not the actual auto-cast

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Reply #6 December 17, 2008 1:03:23 AM
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Yes, I have same problem as Vasari player. Even though it is turned off, my egg still auto-colonize the planets with three neutral siege frigates XD

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Reply #7 December 17, 2008 10:21:05 AM
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I found this happening as well so I did some testing.  What I have found out is that if a ship with the colonize ability is the lead ship(it's portrit at the bottem center of the screen) of a group it will leave the reast of the fleet behind and only it will make the phase jump to try to colonize the system that the FLEET was supposed to jump to if your last intel says its unknown or uninhabited.

Going hand in hand with that bug is the one where the ship with the colonize ability automaticly tries to colonize when first ariving even if auto colonize is turned off.

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Reply #8 December 17, 2008 11:55:16 AM
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It's not a bug. Directing a ship to move to an uncolonized planet directs it to colonize that planet.

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Reply #9 December 17, 2008 12:52:08 PM
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It's not a bug. Directing a ship to move to an uncolonized planet directs it to colonize that planet.

This IS A BUG, and I have already reported it.  It's absolutely annoying and it NEVER happened before Entrenchment.

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Reply #10 December 17, 2008 2:23:56 PM
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Quoting Howdidudothat,
reply 9

It's not a bug. Directing a ship to move to an uncolonized planet directs it to colonize that planet.
This IS A BUG, and I have already reported it.  It's absolutely annoying and it NEVER happened before Entrenchment.

 

The Akkan at least tries to colonize neutral planets, even if they happen to be defended, so long as no hostiles are within immediate engagement range. This is with grav well engagement range set...

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Reply #11 December 17, 2008 2:33:09 PM
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the weirdest part is that the colonize order gets issued even fi theres not enough antimatter

 

so it just sits at the max range of the ability until the antimatter charges up

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Reply #12 December 17, 2008 7:10:22 PM
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This also happened to me as TEC.  When I added another ship to the fleet (originally just the one) it seemed to work correctly though.

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Reply #13 December 18, 2008 12:52:43 AM
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My Vasari cap ship did the same thing despite having autouse turned Off. It *is* a bug - simply telling a cap ship to travel to a system should not imply anything beyond travelling to that system. Failure to rectify this entails a step of micromanagement whenever you deploy Colony cap ships.

Mind you I have no doubt this will get remedied.

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Reply #14 December 18, 2008 8:12:23 AM
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The issue is not with colonizing exclusively. I launched a TEC game last night and built a Marza w/ Raze Planet. Jumped into an enemy system, and the Marza made a beeline for the planet, ignoring an enemy capital ([e digicons]-_-[/e] ) and an enemy starbase ([e digicons]8O[/e] ) to use Raze Planet.

 

It almost looks like they tried to change the "ships stop bombing when scout enters the system" thing most of us came to strongly dislike by bumping up the planet-target priority, but it seems to be a little bit too high!

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Reply #15 December 18, 2008 9:06:37 AM
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The issue is not with colonizing exclusively. I launched a TEC game last night and built a Marza w/ Raze Planet. Jumped into an enemy system, and the Marza made a beeline for the planet, ignoring an enemy capital ( ) and an enemy starbase ( ) to use Raze Planet.

I think this bug is specific to ANY ability that has to do with cap ships and planets.  I got my lvl 6 egg and it imediately wanted to suck the planet dry of an enemy when I jumped in, even though the auto-cast is turned off.

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Reply #16 December 18, 2008 9:19:13 AM
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I think this bug is specific to ANY ability that has to do with cap ships and planets.

Yup.

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Reply #17 December 18, 2008 3:30:56 PM
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I think it goes for ANY ship that has an ability that targets a planet.  I do know that the bug affects the little colony ships also.

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Reply #18 December 18, 2008 9:29:19 PM
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This happened to me as TEC. The Akkan was in the well with colonize on, but when i realized there were nuetral siege ships, I clicked colonize off, but it still proceded to colonize.

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