Fleet not attacking but is being shot at?

[AnAngryYeti]

One of my fleets is not attacking the target I want it to. I give it the order to attack the enemy fleet and they go to it but they will not engage. They're just sitting on TOP of the enemy fleet while they get shot at and lose health but will not fire back at all. I can even warp them to another system while being shot at as if the ememy fleet wasn't even there. This has got to be a bug of some kind right? Anyone know a fix for it?

[Athmet]

Known bug. Move your fleet away it will stop at some point (not too long). It is certainly annoying.

[Elitewrecker PT]

It's a known bug. Move them away. Some have had success by changing the aggression stance of the fleet.

[annaliseh]

I haven't investigated this but I have had this on numerous ocassions. The only solution I could get was to white peace before you lose the system. I think enemy fleet has either triggered a false neutral or a false invincible to your fleet.

[AnAngryYeti]

You may be right. I've now had two different fleets do this to the same one fleet of theirs. I have like tripple their power but I can't do anything to them.

[Maht]

Exiting to menu and loading back in fixed it for me.

[Jagothegamer]

Yep, I had this same bug awhile back, ruined my whole run, but I was told if you exit to the menu and then go back into the game it should fix it.

[AnAngryYeti]

Yep exiting to the menu then loading the save again seems to have done it. Thanks!

[harozuken]

I found another work around if you don't want to reload a save. take the broken fleet, select transfer ship, then transfter every ship into a new fleet. the "new fleet" will reset and begin attacking as normal.

[tulle040657]

The real question is why is this still a bug in the game after a year and a half?

[Nightmyre]

Because it's likely about as difficult to find as your long-lost missing single socks, and occurs in a very sporadic and not-reproducible fashion.

[tulle040657]

Originally posted by Nightmyre:

Because it's likely about as difficult to find as your long-lost missing single socks, and occurs in a very sporadic and not-reproducible fashion.

The longest it ever took me to find a bug was six weeks, it was a good one, it would happen from time to time, but when I put the emulator on it it would not happen at all. I finally had to drag out the logic analyzer and clip it on the processor chip to track it down. I turned out to a misplaced = sign in part of the code that had nothing to do with the effected part.

It took about 10 seconds to fix. So no I will not give them a pass on this on, it happen often enough to track it down.

[The Bored Chairman]

Exit the game and reload the save to fix it. It has to do with the status of the invincible fleet not updating, since the bug only occurs with fleets that have gone MIA. The game improperly identifies them as MIA while they are not, resulting in the issue.

[Aragottix]

I had hoped they would have done something about this bug by now. Just got my run ruined by this bug where my fleet would not engage the enemy. I was able to get in a status-quo peace in before they could get too much of their space back with my fleet utterly destroyed though. Went to war with the same enemy, and the same bug happened, in the same system, and i got wiped again... On Ironman mode. Fun times!

[Jagothegamer]

Originally posted by Aragottix:

I had hoped they would have done something about this bug by now. Just got my run ruined by this bug where my fleet would not engage the enemy. I was able to get in a status-quo peace in before they could get too much of their space back with my fleet utterly destroyed though. Went to war with the same enemy, and the same bug happened, in the same system, and i got wiped again... On Ironman mode. Fun times!

When you see it happen, save and exit to the main menu then load back into the game and they will fire as normal. It's annoying but as long as your paying attention you can avoid it.