How to hold position?

[FatalError]

When I tell ships to hold position, many types of ships will just start attacking and moving anyways no matter how many times I tell them to stop. Mostly siege ships but some others as well. Is this bugged or wtf are you supposed to do? It's extremely annoying.

[Jambie Lionheart]

Are you sure it's on hold position, or is it on attack close enemies? I've only seen cap ships and titans outright ignore a hold position order.

[FatalError]

Originally posted by Jambie Lionheart:

Are you sure it's on hold position, or is it on attack close enemies? I've only seen cap ships and titans outright ignore a hold position order.

its on hold position yes. I even double checked selected all again and set them to hold position, still the same thing. Also the siege ships will try to auto attack the planet as soon as they enter the system, running right into the enemies defenses. I have to set them on a queue of move orders or jump out of the system to stop them from suiciding.

With the Marza Dreadnought it will try to engage defenses even if on hold position and out of weapons range, and not only that, when the marzas missiles are in range, it will still move closer to get in Autocannon range, suiciding into starbases etc. Can't stop it. Abilities autocast was off as well.

[NzFox]

hold position seems to work for me but I admit I don't use it that much, what is missing is a 'hold formation', I am tired of carriers or missile frigates leading the charge into the middle of the enemy formation

[Zane87]

Especially the Marza is infuriating. Very likely a bug, but one the devs are aware of and probably will be fixed soon

[BooMan]

I have that problem also, especially with the Marza and "support" Capital ships. My Kol Battleships will happily stand back and watch the Dunov charge into a starbase and get slaughtered. It would be really nice if the default behavior of support Cap ships was to assume formation behind battleships and titans.

[Brulikrax]

Originally posted by FatalError:

When I tell ships to hold position, many types of ships will just start attacking and moving anyways no matter how many times I tell them to stop. Mostly siege ships but some others as well. Is this bugged or wtf are you supposed to do? It's extremely annoying.

Even with the "Hold Position" command on when jumping in the default attack behavior of some ships will bypasses your commands, as long as the main fleet ship is not there.

[Jambie Lionheart]

When you guys notice the issue, is it entire clusters of ships ignoring the hold position order or is it just one out of a group? Because I've noticed a pattern and the one ship that seems to be ignoring the hold position order is always the lead ship of a fleet, just charging in solo (the one with the visible fleet icon hovering over it). The rest don't tend to follow. I've seen every single type of Tec capital ship do it except for the Kol battleships. The titan also does this. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this pattern? I'm gunna try setting the orders for the lead ship individually and see if that helps.
The Sova's, the Marza's and the Titan seem to be the worst at it. If anyone else wants to test this then let us all know the result.

[Hurricane]

Yeah hold position is annoying and its defo linked to certain ships like the marza. No matter what i do that thing will lead the charge...

[Brulikrax]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Yeah hold position is annoying and its defo linked to certain ships like the marza. No matter what i do that thing will lead the charge...

But why I don't have this issue?

[RaozSpaz]

Originally posted by Brulikrax:

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Yeah hold position is annoying and its defo linked to certain ships like the marza. No matter what i do that thing will lead the charge...

But why I don't have this issue?

Do you have his second ability? Thats the troublemaker

[Brulikrax]

Originally posted by RaozSpaz:

Originally posted by Brulikrax:

But why I don't have this issue?

Do you have his second ability? Thats the troublemaker

No.