Fleet templates

[GeeBee]

Hi. I have a fleet template set up for 5 escorts. I select this template but only have funds to buy 3 so 3 are built and become my fleet. I have the option "Fleet Ship Management" set to auto so I expect that when I have enough funds, the other 2 escorts will be built automatically and added to this fleet but nothing is building. If I manually build 2 escorts then they are getting added to the fleet automatically but why are these ships not being built automatically to top up my fleet to 5?

[Primus Pilus]

It's possible the AI is reserving money for other items, like facilities or troops. What are your funding levels set for ship building? Do you have enough money that would allow the AI to build those additional ships?

[GeeBee]

Originally posted by Primus Pilus:

It's possible the AI is reserving money for other items, like facilities or troops. What are your funding levels set for ship building? Do you have enough money that would allow the AI to build those additional ships?

Thanks. I started a new game and ran this forward for 20 years and still no ships were autobuilt so pretty sure I had enough cash. Was able to build 8 manually and 2 of these did immediately join the fleet but I had to trigger the building of these manually.

[Primus Pilus]

Hard to say what's going on. Do you mind sending us a save with steps to reproduce?

You can send these items to this email at [e-mail] or by sharing a link through a file-sharing service such as WeTransfer or Google Drive.

Saves you can find in this location: \Distant Worlds 2\data\SavedGames

[GeeBee]

Hi - Save at this link. Three fleets set up via templates. Fleet 1 and 2 should have 5 ships each. Fleet 3 should have 7. If I manually build ships or select "Top up" button then missing ships are built but this is not happening automatically? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-JcBjM4XGCZYFy1usrrTLmQh1uPozI48/view?usp=sharing. As discussed I am selecting these templates to be built when I dont have enough cash so only some of the ships are built and added to the fleet. I then expect the missing ships to be built automatically to complete the fleets

[Primus Pilus]

Looking at your save it seems your economy and resource availability seem to be in good enough order for the AI to build more ships. It is possible that the AI isn't topping up your fleets automatically since there's no threat for it to respond to. Have you played far enough that you've met another faction or hostile pirates? Did you notice if your fleets get topped up then?

[GeeBee]

Originally posted by Primus Pilus:

Looking at your save it seems your economy and resource availability seem to be in good enough order for the AI to build more ships. It is possible that the AI isn't topping up your fleets automatically since there's no threat for it to respond to. Have you played far enough that you've met another faction or hostile pirates? Did you notice if your fleets get topped up then?

Hi - thanks for the response - no I had not got that far but let me run the game on a bit and see what happens! Thanks again

[GeeBee]

Hi - ran game to year 2772 when first pirates arrived - they started boarding my mining stations but still no ships are being autobuilt and added to Fleets

[GeeBee]

If I order a new defensive fleet then it is being built fine as I have enough cash for the 5 ships needed to create the new fleet but for the fleets I ordered previously it still wont automatically top these up unless I manually build ships which then get automatically added or I click on the "top up" button

[GeeBee]

Ok - did some more testing. Under Fleet Templates the default is "Latest Design for Largest Hull for Role". With this selected, the missing ships are not being built automatically. If I change this setting to "Latest design for Hull Escort" then ships are auto built and then automatically added to the fleet so this appears to be a bug?