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Offline triggerman602

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Ships not targeting properly
« on: August 08, 2010, 10:54:47 pm »
In my current game all of my ships are having extreme difficulty targeting. Of my fleet of 1000, less then 100 ships are actually shooting yet they all have targets in range.

It has stopped me from playing for the time being.

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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 08:47:18 am »
Hmm, Keith, can you take a look at this? It's probably some sort of edge case with this specific scenario or ship mix. I was playing on Friday with the latest beta, and it was doing great then.
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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 09:43:32 am »
Triggerman, to fix the issue:

1) Select your ships on that planet.
2) Zoom to the AI's Radar Jammer.
3) Right click it.
4) Wait a bit.

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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 10:11:01 am »
That would do it! :)

Happens to the best of us.
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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 08:50:20 pm »
Oh so thats what radar jammers do :-[ Iv never seen them in action and was under the impression that they wouldn't affect ships with targets at point blank range.

Not to mention i didn't even notice it was there.

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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 09:06:49 pm »
Yea, when I tested your save it wasn't actually affecting the ships at really-point-blank range, but it was only 100 or so at the edge of the big blob that got to fire, etc.
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Re: Ships not targeting properly
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 09:46:30 pm »
If you put them in FRD mode they'll move closer, and attack-move might also work, but otherwise if they're just on standby there isn't anything in their range, which is why they act like they can't shoot at anything (and they can't).  Anyway, no worries, happens to the best of us!  It's definitely a big game, eh?
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