How to avoid "Proceed with Current Orders"?

[Azrael]

I really didn't know, how to title this one, I hope it becomes more clear with the post itself:

When I'm present in one of my ships, it seems to get "highlighted" as main ship (basically like every aircraft that the US President is on becomes "Airforce One").

However that has the negative consequence that when I tell the captain, while the ship is docked, to go dock on another station, he mostly everytime tells me that he will proceed shortly.
However he doesn't seem to proceed until I either speak to him personally and tell him to do it or go on the map, right click on the ship in question and click "Proceed with orders".

It is only always the "Main ship", which I currently use, that shows that behaviour, all other ships in my as of yet small fleet don't behave like this, they follow orders without question.

It is annoying me that I everytime have to do command "Proceed with Orders" on the main ship.

How can I turn this off?

[MEG]

Oops... THAT sounds like one issue i had once.
Its a bug...so the captain got stuck into "something" and will NOT do anything else, but undocking and beeing busy! So fankly... he just got stuck.
I sware, i tried everything...the ship is lost, and it is on the screen. Thats it.

So forget it, buy a new one, and make this to your "Airforce One! ;-)

Kind regards

Max

[Azrael]

No, it isn't that severe luckily, when I tell him to Proceed with orders, he does that, however, I'm sick and tired of ordering my captain everytime to proceed with orders so he undocks from a station.

If I tell my captain to dock on another station, he simply should undock, no questioning needed.

[MEG]

You know, that you can give "Standard-orders"?
So, if there are no orders at all...and you select for exaple "patrouille" it will appear as a standard-role-order.
Nevertheless, if you assign your ship to a station.
Is you ship assigned to a station?

[Azrael]

No, so far I only got the HQ station and a single, very basic solar station.

None of my ships are assigned to any station, I command all of them manually.

So the Standard Order for most of my ships is THE standard order "Hold Position".

[Worzel]

it's because there is a built in 'wait for signal' if you get involved on the ship

its so you avoid being left at a station while the ship you jumped on goes to deploy satellites the other end of the universe

handy if you stay on one ship, less handy if you teleport around a lot to command the ship you are on

i remove all orders and then give the order, or i let the captain sit then tell him what to do. I believe that tehre is a mod to remove it too


basically it had a chain of instructions, which you interrupted by taking the chair or getting off at a station or using spacesuit. it needs a command to start the chain of instructions again

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Worzel:

it's because there is a built in 'wait for signal' if you get involved on the ship

its so you avoid being left at a station while the ship you jumped on goes to deploy satellites the other end of the universe

handy if you stay on one ship, less handy if you teleport around a lot to command the ship you are on

i remove all orders and then give the order, or i let the captain sit then tell him what to do. I believe that tehre is a mod to remove it too


basically it had a chain of instructions, which you interrupted by taking the chair or getting off at a station. it needs a command to start the chain of instructions again

Well but then obviously once the chain of my "main" ship ends and he has nothing to do and I give him new orders? Then it shows the same behaviour?

Imho that shouldn't be the case, that my pilot ask to proceed with orders when he just received his orders from me and I'm present on the ship, then he just should take off and follow the order given.

[Worzel]

were you on the main ship at the time? - edit your comment implies you were

mine proceeds with new orders without asking me if im on the ship and the captain is in the chair.

if i give the new order and then the captain takes the chair, he asks to proceed

if your behaviour is dfiferent, it implies a bug


i have 'got up', given the order on the map and been confused, because the captain was stuck behind me and not in the chair when the order was given before. he is then arriving at the seat to an existing order not a new one

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Worzel:

were you on the main ship at the time? - edit your comment implies you were

mine proceeds with new orders without asking me if im on the ship and the captain is in the chair.

if i give the new order and then the captain takes the chair, he asks to proceed

if your behaviour is dfiferent, it implies a bug


i have 'got up', given the order on the map and been confused, because the captain was stuck behind me and not in the chair when the order was given before. he is then arriving at the seat to an existing order not a new one

I rarely sit on the chair myself, I mean, what do I hire captains for if not for flying the ship? :D

So no, it doesn't only happen after for whatever reason I sat on the chair.

[Worzel]

that implies a bug then

for me, if they are in the chair (with no 'wait for signal' in the orders list) they will do the new order without being told to proceed.

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Worzel:

that implies a bug then

for me, if they are in the chair (with no 'wait for signal' in the orders list) they will do the new order without being told to proceed.

Well in that case I hope for a fix by the devs.

[Chris]

How long are you waiting? When you're present on a ship (as a passenger), the captain waits for about 10 seconds before undocking, just to give you the player the time to get to the airlock & exit your ship if you wanted to do something on the station. You can eliminate that 10 second wait by telling them "Proceed with Orders", but if you take no action they should still go ahead & undock after 10 seconds.

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Chris:

How long are you waiting? When you're present on a ship (as a passenger), the captain waits for about 10 seconds before undocking, just to give you the player the time to get to the airlock & exit your ship if you wanted to do something on the station. You can eliminate that 10 second wait by telling them "Proceed with Orders", but if you take no action they should still go ahead & undock after 10 seconds.

Well I didn't wait 10 seconds so far, maybe I was too impatient? I'll take a look for that, since I was just about to start another session of X4.

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Chris:

How long are you waiting? When you're present on a ship (as a passenger), the captain waits for about 10 seconds before undocking, just to give you the player the time to get to the airlock & exit your ship if you wanted to do something on the station. You can eliminate that 10 second wait by telling them "Proceed with Orders", but if you take no action they should still go ahead & undock after 10 seconds.

well tested that out, for me it was about 25 to 30 seconds, but then the pilot proceeded on his own.

[Playbahnosh]

Try unassigning your captain (so the ship doesn't have one) and assigning them again. That should reset their command cue completely and maybe break the bug.

[Azrael]

Originally posted by Playbahnosh:

Try unassigning your captain (so the ship doesn't have one) and assigning them again. That should reset their command cue completely and maybe break the bug.

Well as hinted at by Chris, this seems to be no bug at all, the time the captain gives the player until he takes off is just very long...