I've had the game for quite awhile now but yeah first time posting thought i had an account guess not.
i was building turrets and i had a group of type 1 and i think 3 engineers (the ones that teleport) the type 3 engineers wouldnt auto-assist on the turrets untill the others arrived in system even though they where in range. i had max crystal and metal so it wasnt a resource issue and as i said they started assisting as soon as i brought the other engineers into system.