I am SICK of my ships undocking after I dock them.

[The Nameless]

My capital ships, for some unfathomable reason, keep just undocking on their own while I work on their equipment mods or talk to Boso or whatever I was going to do! What the HELL is with this? (Only happens when I dock them manually then leave for a little while; if I give an order to dock, they stay docked.)

[Nucklesamich]

Do they have default activities they are going to do? Patrol/Trade/etc?

[Dexinition]

.Dont set them in your fleet with a follow order because it will be taken in first wichever order you give after.
create a fleet appart and give what order you want

[Lapo]

There is an easy way to prevent that. Always, ALWAYS delete the orders queued (in the behaviors tab) for the ship BEFORE you leave the pilot seat.

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

My capital ships, for some unfathomable reason, keep just undocking on their own while I work on their equipment mods or talk to Boso or whatever I was going to do! What the HELL is with this? (Only happens when I dock them manually then leave for a little while; if I give an order to dock, they stay docked.)

You answered your own Question already, this only happens when you manually Dock those Ships.

The very moment you leave the Controll Station the Captain will resume his previous Orders and, should you not have defined it explicit, will undock on his own.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Lapo:

There is an easy way to prevent that. Always, ALWAYS delete the orders queued (in the behaviors tab) for the ship BEFORE you leave the pilot seat.

I already know that, and do it. It doesn't help a bit.

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

My capital ships, for some unfathomable reason, keep just undocking on their own while I work on their equipment mods or talk to Boso or whatever I was going to do! What the HELL is with this? (Only happens when I dock them manually then leave for a little while; if I give an order to dock, they stay docked.)

You answered your own Question already, this only happens when you manually Dock those Ships.

The very moment you leave the Controll Station the Captain will resume his previous Orders and, should you not have defined it explicit, will undock on his own.

That would make sense if it HAD previous orders. It doesn't, and I want ships with no other orders to stay where I PUT them.

[Daddy Shark]

It could be that the dock is needed for another ship. It's not like a S/M dock where it can just store your ship if the dock is needed. You have to get out of the way or you're jamming up the whole station.

[Zloth]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

That would make sense if it HAD previous orders. It doesn't, and I want ships with no other orders to stay where I PUT them.

They resurrect previous orders. I take it from the posts here that it isn't a "known issue," though. I'll see if I can make it repeatable and post something tomorrow.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Star Trucker:

It could be that the dock is needed for another ship. It's not like a S/M dock where it can just store your ship if the dock is needed. You have to get out of the way or you're jamming up the whole station.

You may very well be right. (grumble) but it's MY ship, and it's MY station, and the other ships that want to use MY dock are also MY ships. So if I want my personal battleship to take priority at the dock, the mining ship waiting to dump a bunch of rocks can wait its turn or use the next dock. There's a reason I built the station with 9 of them. Not counting the L construction bays.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Zloth:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

That would make sense if it HAD previous orders. It doesn't, and I want ships with no other orders to stay where I PUT them.

They resurrect previous orders. I take it from the posts here that it isn't a "known issue," though. I'll see if I can make it repeatable and post something tomorrow.

(sigh) Bugs. We should make some kind of satirical song about game bugs. Hmm, you're not allowed to harm any animals making youtube videos, but do cockroaches count? Can we shoot cockroaches out of a paintball gun?

[trooperrob]

in the default orders, check the docked box (stay docked? cant remember the wording) Capital docks are few, so I have always accepted capitals get thrown off the docks to let the next one dock, but that shouldn't happen at your docks.

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by trooperrob:

in the default orders, check the docked box (stay docked? cant remember the wording) Capital docks are few, so I have always accepted capitals get thrown off the docks to let the next one dock, but that shouldn't happen at your docks.

I can't find that

[Inforiel]

Originally posted by The Nameless:

Originally posted by trooperrob:

in the default orders, check the docked box (stay docked? cant remember the wording) Capital docks are few, so I have always accepted capitals get thrown off the docks to let the next one dock, but that shouldn't happen at your docks.

I can't find that

It's a checkbox at the very bottom of ship behaviour screen, as shown here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2473539807


Under the default behaviour / order dropdown list.

[Thrangar]

Originally posted by Zloth:

Originally posted by The Nameless:

That would make sense if it HAD previous orders. It doesn't, and I want ships with no other orders to stay where I PUT them.

They resurrect previous orders. I take it from the posts here that it isn't a "known issue," though. I'll see if I can make it repeatable and post something tomorrow.

This /\ can confirm 100% as said ALWAYS delete orders!

[The Nameless]

Originally posted by Thrangar:

Originally posted by Zloth:

They resurrect previous orders. I take it from the posts here that it isn't a "known issue," though. I'll see if I can make it repeatable and post something tomorrow.

This /\ can confirm 100% as said ALWAYS delete orders!

You're lost at sea.

What he means is that, even if we DO delete previous orders, it still goes back to them.

I'm not sure why so many people keep going on with this particular piece of beginner advice. We're WAY past it.

[Zloth]

Better answer myself so I don't leave bad info in the topic...

Originally posted by Zloth:

They resurrect previous orders. I take it from the posts here that it isn't a "known issue," though. I'll see if I can make it repeatable and post something tomorrow.

And I did, and I got an answer.

The problem is that "fly and wait" and "dock and wait" are commands that go on forever. The ship doesn't move on to its default behavior once the destination is reached (hence the "and wait"). Because the command never ends, jumping into the pilot seat and back out again just results in the ship going back to its home position to wait some more.