Escort orders not working

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selterloom
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Escort orders not working

Post by selterloom » Mon, 10. Dec 18, 01:30

For this example there are 2 ships. Ship A and ship B. I assign ship A with the defend role to ship B. Ship A gets the default command of "escort ship B". This is as I expect however, ship A doesn't stay with ship B. It flies far ahead of ship B to the place ship B is going leaving ship B far behind and undefended. This means I can't properly protect my trade ships. I feel like this is a bug but I don't know if I'm just not doing something correctly. Anyone else have this issue and know how to fix it or can tell my a detailed procedure for getting the effect I want? Thanks in advance.

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TheIrishAce
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Re: Escort orders not working

Post by TheIrishAce » Mon, 10. Dec 18, 03:09

I'm also getting this behavior, my fighters are not defending my cargo ships at all.
In my case they seem to be to far ahead but then at other times they stop dead in a random system and don't move.
To fix this (in my situation) I have to constantly recall subordinates to "reassign" them to their orders that they should be following without my input anyways so there has to be some sort of bug or glitch here with the AI ships.

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Re: Escort orders not working

Post by ravisoul » Wed, 12. Dec 18, 14:58

This is a bit of frustrating behavior. for me it makes all the difference if i pilot or of my Subordinate Pilots.

1st Recall subordinates does not work when i pilot. but as soon as i stand up and give the AI captain the same command all Drones dock (not S ships just the drones)
then i give a move command to the ship the S ships dock and the Pilot starts moving

the other thing is when i Fly and do Recall subordinates, that does not work (already established) so i have to get the S ships to dock manually. click ship and click dock
but then when i get attacked or want to attack i first have to go into the menu click docked ship, select Both S fighters go back to the map and tell them to attack
once the 2 S fighters are out of the Bay and are in the open, the Drones start coming out

its because they have a dock and wait command at the top, so they are just waiting, i could also just remove that command and if they are set to the Ship defense option they will undock and start the sequence

So my ask is, make a right mouse button attack command on the map that cancels out all previous orders, or just puts the Attack command at the top of the order list.
also Please make Recall subordinates work :)

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Re: Escort orders not working

Post by labj » Wed, 12. Dec 18, 16:10

Escorts are completely bugged any eta on a fix egosoft ?

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Re: Escort orders not working

Post by ApoxNM » Wed, 12. Dec 18, 16:31

Escorts only work well if all the ships are in the same sector and have the same speed (engines).

Else I agree, completely useless!

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