Ships ignoring queued commands after a period of time

anyone else seen this?

from Stardock Forums

I've played a few games of Sins in the past week or two (after not playing Sins for a few months), and seemed to have noticed this bug.  A few times I will queue orders to destroy a few structures to a group of ships, and I'll come back to them a minute or two later and they will be doing something completely different and my command queues are now gone. 

I've definitely noticed it when queuing orders to a subset of ships within a fleet.  For example, I had a fleet nuking an enemy planet.  I ordered the non-capital ships to knock out 5 enemy structures on the other side of the planet.  They got the first structure down to about 20% and then ignored my orders and tried to go back to the main fleet. I had not ordered any new orders to the fleet itself, so this seems like a bug (unless this is a "feature" of fleet behavior)

I'm also 90% sure I noticed this with an a fleet as a whole as well.  I've queued a fleet to take out structures in a specific order, and later it seemed they ignored it and went back to attacking whatever structures or ships they thought was best.

Has this happened to others before?  I've noticed this in both v1.16 and v1.17.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I have noticed this as well.  One time I had a fleet sit there beside a neutral (just destroyed by bombing) planet.  There were still structures to take out so I queued em up and sorta forgot about it.  I came back later and the fleet was still sitting there.  Every time I'd click for them to attack something, they would move toward it for a few seconds then go back to where they were.  I actually had to move the fleet closer (they would follow move orders but not attack orders) close enough so they would auto attack the structures.

(Note: I was vasari with a fleet consisting of Egg, Carrier, LRF, LFs and the first support cruisers)

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

You can queue orders given to ships???

Never knew that. How do you do it?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

hold shift as u give orders

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I've complained about this many times.  Happens under a host of different circumstances.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

It always seems to happen when they're in a fleet.  If they get too far from the flagship they seem to ignore everything to get back in position.

Pretty much why I don't use fleets.