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It's worse than that... no orders are overrided, no conflicting commands. The hotkey simply does nothing at all, no matter the circumstances. Searching on Google to cover other forums, I've discovered it's a pretty common problem, too. Figure it will be solved in a future patch. As for your suggestion about removing the ship from its fleet and all... doesn't it already do that?
For an often-used order like Retreat, I'd prefer to just click F then R instead of having to manually click the Retreat button once I'm in the right screen. Problem is, once I'm in the Fleet order screen, with the Retreat button that confirms it's mapped to R and all, [B]pressing R will not do anything[/B]. I tried changing the key mapping and pressing R in various situations and with different ships. Other hotkeys seem to work. Anyone had the same problem?
