Damned artificial idiot!

[CW]

Just lost another 3 of MY ships to the AI by the AI. Is it even fighting on my side?!? Lesson learnt here: don't give a fleet the "don't get hurt" order, the ships will really run like the end of the world without any order. I emphasis the Last three words - "without any order" - it managed to leave behind a ship for the "other side" of the computer to shoot up while "MY" (supposingly) other ships, the really powerful ships, ran for ANOTHER corner! I believe I told them to "don't get hurt" not "don't defend"!!

[tesco samoa]

Ouch.

My don't get hurt is always max range.

Now if I could get the ships to attack as quickly as they run on the don't get hurt mode.

[geoschmo]

"Don't get hurt" means "Get as far away from the enemy as possible, as quickly as possible". It will fire on a ship if the ships gets in range. But when one side is jukeing in and out of firing range, and the other side is climbing the corner like a lobster trying to get out of an aquarium, well, it's easy to see which side is going to land the most shots.

[CW]

&$&@$@^%!!!!! Just lost another 3 ships to the AI! I told my ships to get out but they ended up ATTACKING the planet!

[dogscoff]

I suggsted this a whil back, can't remmeber if it was feasible or not...

Could you mod the components so that hulls had a weapon ability, huge range (20 squares or something like that), 1 damage at all ranges. Then, instead of giving the "don't get hurt" order to unarmed ships, tell them "max weapons range". Then they will stay at the maximum range of their hull weapon instead of running for the corners. Might be more effctive.

WOuld this work?

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[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by CW:
&$&@$@^%!!!!! Just lost another 3 ships to the AI! I told my ships to get out but they ended up ATTACKING the planet!

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I learned this one the hard way: If you told them to attack the planet and they got beat up doing it but they are still there, they still have the order to attack in their command queue. When you tell them to leave, they think they have to attack the planet first. You have to clear their existing commands before you tell them to leave.

And no, I didn't learn this by watching a lone carrier that had lost all of its fighters, repeatedly attack a planet, then sit in the corner since it couldn't actually do anything.