Author Topic: Neinzul ships retreating during attacks.  (Read 850 times)

Offline Mazza

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Neinzul ships retreating during attacks.
« on: September 06, 2011, 09:37:54 am »
I have been noticing that with Neinzul ships that they are automatically retreating to a nearby planet that has a Neinzul Regeneration Chamber when their health drops below 30% during combat. Reading the information about the regeneration chamber it states that any Neinzul ship will automatically seek shelter inside the chamber when, "...their health drops below 30% if they have no other orders." However, this has not been the case in my current game.

While attacking a nearby planet I ordered a squad of Neinzul Commando ships to attack a command post while they had below 30% health. I thought this would force them to attack the guard post and attempt to retreat after it was destroyed. However they still attempt to retreat through the wormhole (They can't on this planet, Black Hole Machine.) before reaching the guard post. They will travel anywhere from a third of the distance to reaching the target and then instantly turn around in an attempt to retreat. I usually accepted this during an attack move or FRD move but this is also happening with direct attack orders.

I was wondering if there is a specific command that counts as an "order" or if it was just a bug. As of right now they will cluster around the worm hole unable to retreat and deal no additional damage while they slowly die. The only way to combat this so far has been to just spam the attack order on the command post to ensure that they keep attacking it until it is destroyed. I haven't submitted this as a bug as of yet because I was unsure if this was an isolated issue with Neinzul Commandos, (They don't state that they behave any differently.) an issue with Black Hole Machines messing with their pathing or my lack of knowledge of how Neinzul ships and Neinzul Regeneration Chambers work.

Any insight would be appreciated.

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Re: Neinzul ships retreating during attacks.
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2011, 10:15:25 am »
It's a bug.  Could you post the save file so I can examine the behavior?  You can either attach the .sav file to a post here (under "Additional Options" under the post-typing-box) or to a mantis bug report.
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Offline Mazza

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Re: Neinzul ships retreating during attacks.
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2011, 10:44:59 pm »
It's a bug.  Could you post the save file so I can examine the behavior?  You can either attach the .sav file to a post here (under "Additional Options" under the post-typing-box) or to a mantis bug report.

Sure thing.

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