[FIXED] Attack order queues are ignored + steps to recreate

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There have been a few scattered posts about this, but to my knowledge nobody had it completely figured out.

Basically, what happens if if your ship is auto-attacking a target and you try to add to the queue of targets, that queue will be ignored and the ship will continue to auto-attack.

How to make it not work:

- Build a cap.

- Send it to one of the neutrals with more than 2 ships.

- After it picks an auto-attack target, hold shift and queue any number of other ships.

- When the original auto-attack target is done, the ship will continue with auto-attacks and the target queue will be completely wiped.

 

How to make it work:

- Repeat the first 2 steps above.

- Instead of holding shift, first manually select an attack target. Then hold shift and queue other ships.

- The queue will now execute normally.

 

Bug in a nutshell: You have to manually target your ship(s) before queuing targets, else it will continue auto-attacking.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, its possibly slightly more generalised than this, ie: if you make a move order to another well and then add an attack order at the end of the queue, they will intead see it as a move order.

Basically, attack order via clicks in a queue is never recognised as such unless preceded by a manual attack order via button.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Bloody machine. When do you sleep?

 

:fox:

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I've been seeing the FIXED tag in a few threads.  My guess is that the 2 week marathon of reading the forums is coming to an end and they are starting to get into fixing the bugs.  If I were to guess, he doesn't sleep.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Has anyone fixed the wacky way the Akkan works now? It will jump ahead of the fleet it's attached to, leaving the rest of the fleet behind. It also ignore's the colonize button, you can tell it to not colonize, but it will anyway.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

It's not just the Akkan, it's any ship that has an ability that targets a planet. Right clicking on the planet will queue the ability use instead of a move order. Been plenty of posts on it, so I'm sure they've seen it.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 7
It's not just the Akkan, it's any ship that has an ability that targets a planet. Right clicking on the planet will queue the ability use instead of a move order. Been plenty of posts on it, so I'm sure they've seen it.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Blair, reply 2
Fixed.
Wow. A bug fix that threatens to be a "First!" post. That's pretty epic.