Unwanted Fleet Retreats |
I have a 41 ship fleet and I am attacking a 20 ship enemy at a ringed planet. My ships all start in a single line near the border. I have only one task force and it is set to Optimal Firing. When the tactical combat begins more than half the fleet turns and flees immediately. Ver. 1.44
I installed the new patch, ver 1.58 set a good ship with full ord and sup to Leader and it still happens. The attacking part of the fleet also seems to stop halfway to the enemy.
I changed to point blank, seems to be better. I have read about setting "retreat Options" but see no way to change these settings. They seem to go with the Attack/Defense Strategy setting with no way to adjust.
Anyone else dealing with this? I have never had this happen before and I have had about a dozen battles so far.
Help!
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Dralmar
Thank you. That makes some sense as to the reason but how can it be overcome?. Now how do I get my fleet to NOT set up at the border and end up "retreating"? I haven't seen this problem stated in any other posts, so how is it being avoided?
This could be very problematic with large fleets and task forces.
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Have the fleet break formation as soon as the battle starts -- annoying, but better than having half of it retreat.
Hoped this was fixed with 1.58 (actually, thought I had seen something about it in the patch notes, but must have been a different bug). Since it isn't, I'll have to make sure to report it next time I encounter it, hopefully we can get it fixed for the next patch.
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Dralmar
Thanks for your help. I will break formation each time I have a fleet line up at the edge until it gets fixed.
I am new to the forums. How does one go about reporting a problem like this?
Dralmar, be careful where you type your text. You were putting it in your sig quote, and messing up the forum's formatting. 
You can go to the Projects section, then under Space Empires V there should be a bug reports section. You can also email the developer at .
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Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Dralmar
Sorry, but I can't find where else to type my text. I hit reply, but this is the only place to put my text. It says "Comment" with a red asterisk - "Required Field"
I read the "Input format" but I don't see any instructions to help me.
What am I doing wrong? I don't want to mess anything up or do anything wrong. And thanks for the reporting email address.
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Test
Ok, I think I got it. Somehow my quote has been listed at the top of the box and all my text has been in the quote box.
Does this format it correctly now?
Sorry to all about this little mess - I did send an email to report the fleet retreat/formation problem.
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That's weird. I don't see a sig box at all -- of course I think sigs are as disruptive to the flow of the thread as having a Yahoo ad right in the middle of an e-mail. Avatars are better -- they let you know who is posting at the start of the post, not the end, and they don't get less and less funny every time you see them.
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
Make sure the task force and fleet leaders are ships with weapons on them.
Re: Unwanted Fleet Retreats
If they're in a line at the border, they're not retreating, they're just getting into formation and accidentally crossing the boundary, causing them to retreat. I've had this happen a few times, not sure why it happens some times and not others.