Auto-Attack

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I'm running the current 1.15, however i'm having issues with the autoattack. I have never had all of my ships engage automatically. For example: Another group of enemy ships jumps to a planet where my fleet is stationed. The ONLY units that auto attack are the capital ships. Sometimes the heavy cruisers will, but not consistently. I have tried changing the engagement range, but it does not do anything. What gives?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

most strange. I'd say you need to check, if auto-attack is in fact activated, it's something else than the engagement distance, in the normal unit menu, not the tactical submenu. but I figure you probably already checked that and it would be unusual for it to be screwed up unless you played around with it. most strange.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I have it under "engage units in gravity well" and it has the swirly arrow to indicate auto attack is on.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

This effect becomes most noticeable when lots of ships become involved (not just visible ones, but trade ships milling about off-screen, for example). My guess is that the capital ships are programmed to acquire their targets first, and heavy cruisers near the bottom of the list.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

ships that are in a fleet (other than the flag ship) will not auto aquire targets until the fleet stops

caps and a few other ships can however atk without targeting and while reforming the fleet

but im assuming you already knew this so the problem is something else

that being the case id say corrupt files therefore you should just reinstall

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I guess I might have to reinstall. I will have a cruiser stopped basically running into other ships and it just sits there unless I tell it to attack.