Bug? Capships not autocasting

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Got a few games in today on the new patch (Entrenchment).  Got an egg to level 6, and had it accompanied by a desolator.  The egg had suck planet set to autocast, and the desolator had siege platorms set to autocast.  I'd send them into a planet, they'd start bombarding, but neither one would autocast.  I had to manually suck planet and drop siege platforms.  Don't know why.

Anyone else seen this?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I haven't seen this yet, but I haven't played Entrenchment in a while either.  =P

I do notice that the Devestator seems to autocast the Weapons Jam ability even when nothing is happening in the gravity well.  It keeps draining the antimatter D=

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I know that the egg often won't autocast drain planet, but I've never seen the Vulkoras fail to autocast its siege platforms.

The Devastator autocast issue was supposedly fixed in 1.181, strange that it would be back.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Yes, Kortul Autocast issue still exist. And yes, Vulkoras fail to autocast siege platforms.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

just curious, did you have the ships set to hold position? I've seen this happen that way as the autocast range can be just outside their bombing range.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

ya... the kortul is spamming jam weapons like nothing else.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

To me, the Kortul constantly autocasting Jam Weapons only appears in Diplomacy, I just tried it in all 3.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Okay... so somehow the Entrenchment fix wasn't carried over into Diplomacy.  Go figure :|

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

I haven't had any problems with the desolator in either entrenchment or diplomacy, and I use it quite a bit.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

I've actually started to notice this problem with both the Vulkoras and the Marza, but only sometimes.  It's not consistant.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Same Problem with Marza, for them to Autocast, the need to be in range of the planet, (much closer for an ability to bomb the planet than normal bombing).

Hover the mouse of the ability, the range should than pop up, move it closer to the planet, set it on auto cast. problem sorted 

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting TenebrousNight, reply 6
To me, the Kortul constantly autocasting Jam Weapons only appears in Diplomacy, I just tried it in all 3.

 

 

same problem here.

 

Also noticed the siege platforms dont autocast now as well - they did just fine prior to dip being released (and that 'lets screw everything up' patch.)

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

My skinatra won't autocast the nanites, even if friendly craft in the radius have hull damage.  If I set scramble bombers to autocast, it DOES autocast it but not how I would expect.  It autocasts it occasionally, but if it has remaining antimatter when the cooldown ends it won't do it.

I was invading the pirate base with a pair of skinatras, they both failed to autocast nanites and once the fleet was dead and I wanted them to spam bombers to kill the turrets, they failed to execute the skill multiple times in quick succession, despite having 150+ antimatter.