Fortress not attacking

[deadbeat259]

Hello, this is my first time posting. I got the game a few weeks back and I am working my way solo through an 80 planet map. So far, I'm having a great time. I ran into an issue last night I hope someone can clarify for me. I was trying to take a planet that was two jumps from a planet I already owned. Because I didn't want to raise the AI Progress, I left the AI command station on the intermediary planet alone and just flew my ships across that one to the planet I actually wanted to take. I built a fortress on the intermediary planet to deal with any AI reinforcements that would show up from time to time. The planet I was trying to take was a Mark IV and the intermediary planet was a Mark II. The fortress would consistently ignore the Mark II reinforcing ships that turned up at the command station, forcing me to manual select each enemy ship. But when some Mark IV ships chased my fleet back into that intermediary planet, the fortress attacked them without my prompting it. Is this suppose to happen? Do fortresses have settings for what tier of ships they will engage automatically? Thanks for any help.

-Oli

[RCIX]

this is quite odd. Offhand, the only reasons i can think of are:

 * Range was an issue (was the targets in range?)
 * Shields were preventing shots from hitting (but then you said it targeted MkIV ships just fine)

[Minty]

Also, if the reinforcing mkII ships have insanely high shields, such as Space Tanks (30,000 iirc), then the fortress will need to get VERY close to actually hit them. You've not specified that it's on FRD mode, so if it's not, and just sat on a wormhole, it'll ignore stuff that's out of effective range, whilst merrily splatting anything that comes close enough.

[orzelek]

As for shields - fortress has the shields ignore flag so this can't be the reason.

Question is what game version you have since targeting was updated few times recently?

[deadbeat259]

I don't think range is the issue, since the fortress was parked as far away from the ships it did automatically engage as the ones it didn't. As for shields preventing hits, the problem was the fortress wouldn't even fire on the Mark II ships reinforcing the system without me mouse clicking on each and everyone. But it would fire on the Mark IV ships coming in without having been told to do so.

I will check the game version tonight when I get home.

Thank you all for the help.

-Oli