Incorrect behavior in battle with tactical repair ship

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Ok so I'm sure everyone is aware of the bug where sometimes some of the enemy ships in larger battles cruise along side by side with your own ships, neither side firing for awhile as they report as being out of range.

Well when this happens with a ship that has tactical repair, once the battle resumes the tactical repair ceases to function.

I had a ship with tactical repair that handily defeated many ships until I ran up against this, after the battle resumed it sat there and failed to heal at all, it instead slowly died as it pecked away at the enemy finally losing the battle by the difference of a single salvo. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok this just becomes more and more frustrating.

I just watched another battle using a ship with tactical repair.  Facing a much smaller and weaker foe it flew in, completely failed to ever repair itself, and shot its beams off into deep space while being slowly pounded to scrap.  I'm sorry but while I am normally forgiving of glitches and bugs, when my proven successful designs simply fail like this it makes the balance of the game completely nonsensical.  Why not just flip a coin or throw darts at a results board with no acknowledgement of the relative merits of the ships.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

it's quite possible that tactical repair has some glitches, but your description sounds more like the battle viewer doesn't show an accurate representation of how the battle actually played out.  take a look at the ships that are randomly cruising along. chances are that they actually show 0 speed, i.e. they are shown as "crusing" when they are actually sitting in the back, out of range. 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Oh certainly, as far as the not fighting thing goes I just assume that is some kind of stall in the processing of the battle.

The not repairing and not being able to hit the enemy ship more than a couple times happened straight from the beginning of battle in another fight entirely and THAT was extremely annoying.

A consistent battle resolution process is essential to any game that includes combat and conquest as elements of success seeing as there are times winning or losing a single battle can make a huge difference.

When the above issue occurred I used the restart battle option repeatedly and while the margins where slimmer or wider each time my ship never repaired itself and only ever got a few licks in on the enemy ship.