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0003844AI War 1 / ClassicGameplay IssueAug 24, 2012 10:58 am
ReporterTechSY730 Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Severityminor 
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Product Version5.017 
Summary0003844: Ships in FRD not always regathering at FRD point
DescriptionThe intended behavior of ships in FRD is when that there are nothing for them to do (attack stuff for military things, repair or build stuff for engineers), they should return the point where the FRD move command was centered on. Sometimes, they don't.

The trigger seems to be either they were targeting a ship that just died or targeting a ship that left the system. Even then, it only seems to happen sometimes.
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TechSY730

May 21, 2012 8:19 pm

reporter   ~0024549

Sorry to bump, but this is still an issue in 5.035

Wingflier

May 22, 2012 10:02 pm

reporter   ~0024648

Got a replay? I'm not sure I've experienced this

TechSY730

May 22, 2012 11:07 pm

reporter   ~0024659

Hmm, shouldn't be too terribly hard for me to get a save; it happens all the time in my game. But thanks to the way that units tends to reprocess from scratch "what should I do now" on game load, it might "fix itself" upon load.

TechSY730

Aug 23, 2012 11:20 am

reporter   ~0027918

I apologize for this, but BUMP.

Hearteater

Aug 23, 2012 11:56 am

reporter   ~0027920

The weirdest instance of this I see is if I FRD ships into an AI system, their FRD point is the wormhole they enter through. But if I build a Command Station, suddenly they all move over to the Command Station.

keith.lamothe

Aug 23, 2012 12:49 pm

administrator   ~0027922

There's a limited amount I can do without steps to reproduce, though I do understand it may be hard to get it to reproduce across saves.

I can investigate it without steps, but it generally takes hours, and I don't have them right now :)

TechSY730

Aug 23, 2012 1:24 pm

reporter   ~0027924

Last edited: Aug 23, 2012 1:26 pm

The best I can think of doing is to just have your ships on FRD on a planet when a wave comes in, deliberately allow some of the ships of the wave to retreat, and then see what happens after all the ships are gone or dead. Moderately often, you'll see at least some ships not retreating back to the FRD point.

Yea, but like many intermittent bugs involving state that might get messed with during load, this is a tricky one to reproduce reliably.

IIRC, in the debug view, the current orders for the "stuck" ship was still to attack a ship that has already left the system, if this helps any.

EDIT: By this token, I think I have seen this sometimes when my ships try to take out an Astro turret train, but the train escapes before my fleet can do so.

Toll

Aug 23, 2012 1:48 pm

reporter   ~0027925

I've mostly seen this when I have lots (1000+ ships) in the system. It might happen at other times as well, but that seems to be when most of it happens for me. It could be that it's when it's most likely to surface since more ships have orders that can go wrong, I suppose.

platinawolf

Aug 24, 2012 10:50 am

reporter   ~0027938

I thought it was due to parasites and the "reclaimed units rally" flag interacting badly with auto frd ^^* My new toys tend to be spread all over my planet after an AI has attacked but usually just the new units ^^* Especially bad with tackle drones ^^*

Draco18s

Aug 24, 2012 10:58 am

developer   ~0027939

Last edited: Aug 24, 2012 10:59 am

I've noticed that this happens most predominantly with melee units, which might help locate the issue.

I had a blob of viral shredders, and they'd semi-blob around the last target they had, and never re-group at the FRD location.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Sep 13, 2011 3:55 pm TechSY730 New Issue
May 21, 2012 8:19 pm TechSY730 Note Added: 0024549
May 22, 2012 10:02 pm Wingflier Note Added: 0024648
May 22, 2012 11:07 pm TechSY730 Note Added: 0024659
Aug 23, 2012 11:20 am TechSY730 Note Added: 0027918
Aug 23, 2012 11:56 am Hearteater Note Added: 0027920
Aug 23, 2012 12:49 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0027922
Aug 23, 2012 12:49 pm keith.lamothe Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Aug 23, 2012 12:49 pm keith.lamothe Status new => feedback
Aug 23, 2012 1:24 pm TechSY730 Note Added: 0027924
Aug 23, 2012 1:24 pm TechSY730 Status feedback => assigned
Aug 23, 2012 1:26 pm TechSY730 Note Edited: 0027924
Aug 23, 2012 1:48 pm Toll Note Added: 0027925
Aug 24, 2012 10:50 am platinawolf Note Added: 0027938
Aug 24, 2012 10:58 am Draco18s Note Added: 0027939
Aug 24, 2012 10:59 am Draco18s Note Edited: 0027939
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Gameplay - General Complaint => Gameplay Issue