Ships not repairing

[Justin Sellers]

Ironman custom game. Playing Portugal(ish). I had an exploration fleet which got beat up and ran into a colony under build to repair. All of the ships were below 15%. My fleet slider was at max. I could not move them to another area, could not remove the leader, could not move ships out of the task force, could not cancel the mission. Eventually, after 2 years of waiting, I just deleted the fleet since it was only 3 ships. Any thoughts?

[kaiyl_kariashi]

were you out of sailors? You need sailors to repair.

did you mothball them?

[Shampagen]

First of all, your ships don't move because they're on an exploration mission still, and won't cancel out of it until the entire region is explored. Second, I think they couldn't move because paradox made sailors act pretty much like manpower for boats, in that it recovers the farther away from country. Also boats take attrition for no reason now, so that might also have drained your sailor pool. It's dumb, I know.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

ships don't suffer attrition on exploration missions except for Circumnavigate the World.

They also haven't changed the attrition rules any recently, it's still the same as always.

in-supply suffers no attrition except in Open Ocean titles, but will slowly build up attrition since the last time they docked that'll suffer any time they are out of supply just due to the ship itself needing regular maintence in Dry-dock periodically for careening and pitching.



It's possible your repair threshold was set too low so the ship returned mid-mission to repair but there weren't enough sailors so it's sitting there waiting for enough to repair.

[Justin Sellers]

That was the case, I was out of sailors. Thank you.

[Shampagen]

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

in-supply suffers no attrition except in Open Ocean titles, but will slowly build up attrition since the last time they docked that'll suffer any time they are out of supply just due to the ship itself needing regular maintence in Dry-dock periodically for careening and

I wasn't saying that it was the exploration fleet suffering attrition. I was saying it possibly could have been other fleets, because since the Hungary patch I've had ships take attrition because apparently you need to reinforce ships now. I still don't know how that happens, but if you reinforce more sailors than you gain per month, you'll go down to zero in no time at all.