Repeat Orders

You need to give it orders say to one place then orders back to starting position. Then you tell it to repeat orders and it will go from one end to the other. In a simultaneous game you just give it orders for the next turn and so on. In a turn based game it has to have run out of movement or it'll just do what you tell it straight away before you issue repeat orders.

Probably related to how you can't tell a ship to go pick up units then drop them somewhere else since you can't give orders to drop units if you haven't got them loaded yet.

Are there any enemies in the area? Do you have Empire Options set to clear orders upon contact with other empires?

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I do not know if this is related, but I do not seem to get repeat orders to work for fleets. For me, repeat orders works fine with single ships, but if I create a fleet containing transports and some escorting combat ships, I can not get the repeat orders to function.

I'm having the same problem trying to move populations. I set up the orders, then do repeat. everything looks fine, but a few turns later, I see my ship moving to the destination planet, and it is empty, when it should be full of population.