Ship Movement Issues

posted on May 8th, 2011, 6:22 pm

Are you having issues with ship movement for example the ship returning to fight after you give it a repair order and put it in another group or even sent it off somewhere else in the minimap and still return??

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I believe this is caused by lag(?) as the teutoburg was able to fire 561484789456489+E5464898 number of torpedoes because of lag and this movement issue is 10x worse than ever before....

posted on May 8th, 2011, 6:24 pm

I haven't actually had these issues myself, but I saw them a lot in a match between ButterBread and Boggz I observed. There were 2 other observers, so there was definitely some lag.

posted on May 8th, 2011, 6:45 pm

I've had lots of issues with getting individual ships to repair.sometimes the rest of my fleet will swirl aroun dit and escort it without any order being given isntead of sticking it out in the fight.

posted on May 8th, 2011, 6:55 pm

I've had lots of issues with getting individual ships to repair.sometimes the rest of my fleet will swirl aroun dit and escort it without any order being given isntead of sticking it out in the fight.

yup ive had that in previous patches too.

posted on May 8th, 2011, 7:34 pm

It seems worse now in this version of flops. I never had this issue untill the next patch.
i.e. I told a borg scube to retreat/move to my starbase so it wouldn't get destroyed, but a second or so later it turned around and went back in the fight. So I order it to move away again and again. Finally it did what it was told to do. Also it seems to me that this also happens when the game doesn't lag, or it is minimal anyways. Why does it do that? I didn't have this problem in the previous versions...
It does it with all races it seems. So what causes this odd behaviour?

posted on May 8th, 2011, 7:48 pm

i.e. I told a borg scube to retreat/move to my starbase so it wouldn't get destroyed, but a second or so later it turned around and went back in the fight.

yeah i had exactly the same problem ... also lost 2 scubes during a fight cause they just stand still and do nothing ... they dont even shoot back -.- ( and yes they were on red alert )
a friend of mine also had the problem during a fight that when he retreated his ships one or two vessels just head back into my fleet ... and this happend during a 1vs1 without any lag

posted on May 8th, 2011, 9:27 pm

I've also had cloaking issues where my ships refuse to cloak when I tell them to (after the cooldown is over ofc).

posted on May 8th, 2011, 9:30 pm

I had the no-cloak one twice...

posted on May 9th, 2011, 7:15 am

Devs, any insights on this?

posted on May 9th, 2011, 11:20 am

we are working in improving ship movement. The work-in-progress actually lead to some undesired side effects in the latest patches. One of the next patches will increase your control over ships again Thanks for your patience

posted on May 9th, 2011, 11:26 am

we are working in improving ship movement. The work-in-progress actually lead to some undesired side effects in the latest patches. One of the next patches will increase your control over ships again Thanks for your patience

thanks for this too my valiant warriors are dying cos their kbq was getting a little too frisky.

posted on May 9th, 2011, 12:09 pm

You can't blame them for having a *Insert klingon voice here*Thirst for battle!! :guns:*klingon voice*

posted on May 9th, 2011, 12:37 pm

You can't blame them for having a *Insert klingon voice here*Thirst for battle!! :guns:*klingon voice*

more like thirst for wasting my already precious supply

posted on May 9th, 2011, 11:35 pm

As I said in the bugs thread its also just built ships aswell.