Moves truncation when TURN is pressed » Forum Post by insomniatrist

erischild

Join Date 01/2012

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This is not my experience. When I hit TURN, any ships with partial moves do those partial moves, and then I get IDLE SHIP prompts until I deal with all ships that have partial moves left. Then I get a second TURN button that actually advances the calendar, production, diplomacy, etc.

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lyssailcor

Join Date 02/2004

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Quoting erischild,

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This is not my experience. When I hit TURN, any ships with partial moves do those partial moves, and then I get IDLE SHIP prompts until I deal with all ships that have partial moves left. Then I get a second TURN button that actually advances the calendar, production, diplomacy, etc.

I seem to remember that it was so in earlier versions, but I experience the same behaviour as insomniatrist: when a ship or fleet has a target that it reaches with some movement points left those are lost. When I get control back over such a ship or fleet, it has always full movement points. There is no such thing as an "interim turn" anymore that is just for those cases that ships reach a target without having used up all movement points.

Indeed that's annoying and another reason for more micromanagement. If that is not easily fixed, make it at least so that the player can set a path for ships or fleets by ctrl-clicking or whatever to set waypoints, because at least I do often not set a path for a fleet or ship from start to intended target, but break it up in smaller parts to avoid flying through enemy territory or to make sure some fog of war is cleared.

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Quoting erischild,

reply 1

This is not my experience. When I hit TURN, any ships with partial moves do those partial moves, and then I get IDLE SHIP prompts until I deal with all ships that have partial moves left. Then I get a second TURN button that actually advances the calendar, production, diplomacy, etc.

Interesting.

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Quoting lyssailcor,

reply 2

Quoting erischild,

reply 1

This is not my experience. When I hit TURN, any ships with partial moves do those partial moves, and then I get IDLE SHIP prompts until I deal with all ships that have partial moves left. Then I get a second TURN button that actually advances the calendar, production, diplomacy, etc.

I seem to remember that it was so in earlier versions, but I experience the same behaviour as insomniatrist: when a ship or fleet has a target that it reaches with some movement points left those are lost. When I get control back over such a ship or fleet, it has always full movement points. There is no such thing as an "interim turn" anymore that is just for those cases that ships reach a target without having used up all movement points.

Indeed that's annoying and another reason for more micromanagement. If that is not easily fixed, make it at least so that the player can set a path for ships or fleets by ctrl-clicking or whatever to set waypoints, because at least I do often not set a path for a fleet or ship from start to intended target, but break it up in smaller parts to avoid flying through enemy territory or to make sure some fog of war is cleared.

Bingo

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