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Offline Vinraith

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About combat stances
« on: July 25, 2010, 10:23:44 pm »
I understand the basic principles behind attack-move and FRD, but I'm learning there are some quirks. For example, having placed some ships in a hostile system on attack-move, they (very rapidly) blew up the enemy command station (which I didn't actually want blown up, and didn't explicitly target). I'm curious, does attack-move negate the normal ship behavior of waiting for an ok before attacking targets of this sort? How far does that go? That is, would they do something absurd like blow up an uncaptured advanced factory?

Anyway, I suppose I'm asking what I need to know about these stances that isn't covered in the basic description in the manual, so as to avoid unpleasant surprises in the future.

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Re: About combat stances
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2010, 10:27:48 pm »
Attack-move isn't supposed to change the auto-targeting behavior.  Can  you confirm on another command station that it's doing so?
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Re: About combat stances
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2010, 10:37:30 pm »
Ah, yeah I'll double check and make sure I didn't accidentally click on it after all. I'm new at this, so I just figured it was something I didn't know about!

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Re: About combat stances
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2010, 10:45:55 pm »
OK, I tried to reproduce it a few times and got nothing. I must have accidentally clicked on the command station after all. Very sorry about the confusion! :-[

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Re: About combat stances
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2010, 10:52:40 pm »
No problem, thanks for retesting and letting me know, we'd certainly want to know if there was a bug like that swimming around ;)
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