How to tell my ship to stop attacking ?

[Kirshak]

I'm in Gestsu Fune, I want my Corvettes to move away so I can capture a ship, but the enemy ship turrets keep on shooting at my AI ships, my AI ships cancel my "Dock and wait" order and keep on coming back to attack the enemy ship.

What can I do to have my ships obey their order given by me directly, no matter what happen ?

[Wolfsblut]

click the needed ship with left mouse button then right mouse button. ther should be something like "stop all command and mission" sry its translated from german but should be similar to that.

that will reset all comand you had given and things like standard behaving.

[Mavi]

You can either change the global behaviour of all ships to achieve this or you could click on the ship and change the behaviour in the last tab of their information screen. There you can tell them how to respond to attacks and other things.

[Metradon]

Give them the "Flee" order in either ship behaviour or directly (sometimes a drop down option under attack). Then queue the docking command. That should put them out of range of being attacked again as long as where they are docking is not within range of the enemy.

[Wraith]

If your ship is being override by an attack it in global command

Put the default reaction from use judgement to ignore

[Kirshak]

Gosh, that's hella complicated, I don't want to go into each of them to do that, or go into the mess of the menu to go into the global orders (I'm not even sure if I understand correctly where is that option that tells a ship to not shoot anymore)

And I HATE the flee option as the ship will often just stop, do a 360 turn and fly towards the enemy, classic X4 AI moment.

Thanks for the responses guys

[Wraith]

Global command is in the personal tab
It where you create trade rule and stuff
You don’t have to do it individually
It better to not have them be at used judgement anyway and continue it original command

[Daddy Shark]

Originally posted by Kirshak:

Gosh, that's hella complicated, I don't want to go into each of them to do that, or go into the mess of the menu to go into the global orders (I'm not even sure if I understand correctly where is that option that tells a ship to not shoot anymore)

And I HATE the flee option as the ship will often just stop, do a 360 turn and fly towards the enemy, classic X4 AI moment.

Thanks for the responses guys

Agree here.

The problem is the game has so many options that making a slick and intuitive UI is basically impossible. If you tried to simplify things any more than they are you'd be taking away options from the players.

A voice API like Google Assistant or Alexa could help tremendously. Just say what you want your squad to do. Easy.

[Wolfsblut]

Originally posted by Kirshak:

Gosh, that's hella complicated, I don't want to go into each of them to do that, or go into the mess of the menu to go into the global orders (I'm not even sure if I understand correctly where is that option that tells a ship to not shoot anymore)

And I HATE the flee option as the ship will often just stop, do a 360 turn and fly towards the enemy, classic X4 AI moment.

Thanks for the responses guys

the game can be overwhelming at times but stick to it.
will be worth if you later control everything at ease!

i was at that state too.

[Mavi]

Originally posted by Kirshak:

Gosh, that's hella complicated, I don't want to go into each of them to do that, or go into the mess of the menu to go into the global orders (I'm not even sure if I understand correctly where is that option that tells a ship to not shoot anymore)

And I HATE the flee option as the ship will often just stop, do a 360 turn and fly towards the enemy, classic X4 AI moment.

Thanks for the responses guys

The option for the global orders is on the screen which can be accessed by pressing the human-symbol on the top row on the map screen. There you can get into global orders on the left side of the screen by clicking on the globe icon. It's worth checking them at least once anyway. Because you can stop all the ships asking you on what to do when something happens (like pirates wanting their wares). You can choose a default action for all those events there and don't get bothered as much anymore.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by Mavi:

The option for the global orders is on the screen which can be accessed by pressing the human-symbol on the top row on the map screen. There you can get into global orders on the left side of the screen by clicking on the globe icon. It's worth checking them at least once anyway. Because you can stop all the ships asking you on what to do when something happens (like pirates wanting their wares). You can choose a default action for all those events there and don't get bothered as much anymore.

I actually very much advice people to turn off ship asking for your instruction.

Will save your ships on multiple occasion.

When they ask you for stuff they actually stop and wait for your signal.
If you turn that off they will continue on their way or react much faster to pirates saving you alot of ships.

[Mavi]

Originally posted by Wraith:

Originally posted by Mavi:

The option for the global orders is on the screen which can be accessed by pressing the human-symbol on the top row on the map screen. There you can get into global orders on the left side of the screen by clicking on the globe icon. It's worth checking them at least once anyway. Because you can stop all the ships asking you on what to do when something happens (like pirates wanting their wares). You can choose a default action for all those events there and don't get bothered as much anymore.

I actually very much advice people to turn off ship asking for your instruction.

Will save your ships on multiple occasion.

When they ask you for stuff they actually stop and wait for your signal.
If you turn that off they will continue on their way or react much faster to pirates saving you alot of ships.

Yes, that's another good reason to go into the global orders at least once per playthrough :-)

[EddieB]

Originally posted by Daddy Shark:

A voice API like Google Assistant or Alexa could help tremendously. Just say what you want your squad to do. Easy.

A Paranid Ship's AI called Kromanclackolcokolockamok, and it only responds if you say the name exactly right.

Player: "Kromanclackolcokolockamok, make those ships stop trying to destroy that target."
AI: "Understood. Activating purge protocols. Unworthy ships are now initiating Self-Destruction command."
Player: "No! Wait, abort that!"
AI: "I did not hear you say my name properly. ... Stars guide you."
Player: Kromanclakooooooly sh-! Welp, there they go."