Drones restrict ships from firing |
| Project: | Space Empires V |
| Version: | 1.74 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Attachment: | 1.gam (2.46 MB) |
Description
In this ongoing game, there is a fleet right by Cygnet I. I tried to take both the fleet and the drones into combat, but there seems to be a bug. The ships and fighters will engage, but a short while into the battle my ships stop firing at the enemy. They will swarm around them as if trying to engage, but will will not actually fire. I tried the game again, sending in the drones first, and then the fleet when the first battle was done, and my ships engaged perfectly. I have no idea why the drones prevented my ships from firing before. I am using balance mod 1.14b.
Updates
I have seen some strange things happening in the presence of drones too, though in my case in the opposing force.
In my case, I had two classes of fighters, one intended to chase down fleeing ships, with a modified attack strategy that prioritized faster targets and put "has undamaged weapons" as a low priority tiebreaker, and one using the "maximum weapon range" strategy.
Sometimes one or the other class of fighter would fail to attack anything, heading out for the edge of the map immediately. Sometimes nothing at all would chase the drones when they were alone. I don't think these problems ever occurred when there were no drones in the battle.
