Inactive Orders???

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I've given a Kestrel a long queue of ordres. After returning to it, I saw it just standing there, doing nothing. On the Behaviour Tab it says"Inactive Orders below", and next to every order there's an orange " [disabled] " mark. Clicking on it does nothing... Any ideas as to why my orders went disabled, and how to recover from these disabled orders?

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Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

eMYNOCK [developer] 2 hours ago
This behavior is more common than one might expect, especially when the Map Filter shows all Ship Commands.

You would not believe how often i have dragged one of those lines out of the Map, resulting in all commands after the invalid Command becomming "Disabled".

Easy "fix":

Just move the disabled Orders back into the active Queue, just click the tiny "up Arrow" in the Inactive List.

Oh, thank you very much dear eMYNOCK. I now remembered, there was a report "last order could not be completed" when I was busy doing something else. This must be it...

According to Steam, so far I have put 807 hours into X4, and there are still things I don't know... WOW!!! Of course I could go back into the logbook and search for the source of the "last order..." report, but it's time consuming. In my opinion, you should:

1) Let the pop up report window open until I dismiss it by pressing F and the order I wish. For example, I may be in the middle of something impostant, say, building something, and may skip the pop up window. I can't quit the building process, go check the pop up window, and then resume the building once again, every time a pop up window (message) from one of my Captains appears! If you have a large Fleet, this could be a nightmare... Let US (the players) dismiss each window, while putting a note in the Log Book as well...

2) As the Log Book is time consuming, you guys should put a search option in it, so we don't have to scroll down page after page untill we find the correct entry. Berndt, said the Log Book and other map related info will change. I hope, the change to be practical (user friendly) and not just a nicer (more beatiful) display of information...

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

I seem to have a variation of this problem that popped up yesterday, and I'm perusing the comments here to see if anything in particular needs to be messed with.

My problem seems to stem from two things:

1: A docking order that is in the 'critical' state, that I cannot get the pilot to execute. Nor can I delete the order manually. It just sat off the side of a paranid station for over an hour before I finally went 'what are you doing?'. I ended up flying over, boarding, and manually landing at said station to complete a trade. I still can't get it to obey a command or clear the docking order.

2: Something is causing it to wipe its 'Default Orders' condition that I set up for auto-trading. I set the order, set the wares list, set the sector, hit confirm... Ten seconds later, it resets to 'hold position'.

Scratchin' me head here. It's almost behaving as if it got kicked onto an AI scrip that does nothing but set the docking command flag, but never executes.


EDIT: Okay, just tried flying to another sector and firing the captain... And the dock order is still queued. It's stuck. I may have to flat out sell/delete the Sputtery Tater. That captain was up to four stars too...

[kever]

Happened to me for the first time with this new beta batch. Was wondering why a ship was takin 2h to move a couple sectors, found it had stopped in mid flight and was just idling. Deleted order and gave same order and continued, was just a simple "fly to" order. Was building new station near the order that got stuck so maybe it herp derped and decided it can't fly anymore there because a station is being built close to it's fly to order and got stuck.