Hi all, I'll do the TLDR version first and add details later.
Has anyone else experienced when your fleet just never starts or randomly stops autoattacking? You can focus fire a target but once that target is dead (or sometimes even before), every ship goes on a strange and unexplainable move command somewhere in the gravity well? I had this last night and it was very frustrating and difficult to play with, but I don't have a ton of Sins experience so I don't know if it's a thing with Rebellion or not.
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-I verified I had loose fleet cohesion and auto attack enabled. I reverified by selecting every ship in the well and disabling then enabling auto attack. The first time I did this it worked briefly, the second time it didn't work at all.
-I tried several times to disband and recreate the fleet which seemed to work partially at least for all fleet functions I needed besides the auto attack thing. This may be a function of me not understanding how fleets work. I've never had trouble in the past, but I don't think I've ever had such a large single fleet after losing my Mothership (usually my fleet leader). Also consider I've only played maybe 30-40 sins games ever, so no vast experience. It's also the only time I had the titan as fleet leader.
-When I say weird move orders I don't even mean following the fleet leader. I mean one second they were attacking a target, and the next they got a random move order on the other side of the planet, and my whole fleet just started moving in the midst of a giant battle. This ONLY happened in battle. Outside of combat, everyone just followed the titan around as usual. I should also mention the titan didn't seem to have this problem, only the other ships in the fleet. Come to think of it, maybe it WAS the titan being fleet leader that was the problem?
-The game was laggy (HUGE friendly MP/AI game with lots of ships) but I wasn't issuing orders on accident. This was happening fairly consistently in every battle and I was getting aggravated. Even when I tried to micro commands, those commands would be overridden or just not happen at all sometimes. It was like my fleet was both mutinous and suicidal.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and has ideas on what causes it, as it was really frustrating and something I'd like to avoid in the future. I couldn't find any other posts after a cursory search.
Thanks