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Starmade | fleet on sentry or defend doesn't fight back if enemy is out of weapon range
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I had a fleet of ships with short range beam/cannon weapons. I set them to the sentry fleet command and spawned a pirate Isanth ship with cannon/cannon weapons about 2km away. It kept shooting at them and they never fought back, never moved. I tried switching them to the defend sector fleet command for their current sector. They still did nothing. I destroyed the pirate ships and spawned it within 1km of them, and they started fighting.

It would seem that fleet ships ignore everything outside their weapons range. Even if it is Killing them.

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
Single and Multi
Reproducible
Yes
Category
Fleets
First occurrence (version)
0.19592
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
Windows Only
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
NVIDIA
User/Reporter/Contact
Username on Registry
Kingofanime
Steps to reproduce
  1. Spawn a fleet of ships with short range weapons. Beam/Cannon. (1km Range Weapon)
  2. Set the fleet to Sentry Mode.
  3. Spawn a pirate Isanth with Cannon/Cannon Weapon at a distance of 2km. (2km Range Weapon)
  4. The Isanth will shoot at the fleet ships and they will do nothing.
Serverconfig (server.cfg)
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Clientconfig (settings.cfg)
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Kingofanime updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 6 2016, 6:20 PM
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-Feedback-

It would seem that fleet ships ignore everything outside their weapons range. Even if it is Killing them.

I assume those ships had a range of less than 2KM then? Is it fine if an enemy ends up within their weapon range or isn't that working either?

lancake shifted this object from the S1 Public space to the S3 Starmade space.Mar 6 2016, 6:57 PM
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lancake changed the edit policy from "Task Author" to "Starmade (Project)".
lancake changed Affected Gamemode(s) from none/unspecified to Single and Multi.
lancake renamed this task from Fleet on Sentry or Defend Sector doesn't fight back to fleet on sentry or defend doesn't fight back if enemy is out of weapon range.
lancake triaged this task as Urgent priority.
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Kingofanime added a comment.EditedMar 6 2016, 7:30 PM

If an enemy is within weapons range, it works fine.

If an enemy never enters weapons range, they never react, they just stand there until they die.

Cannon/Cannon Pirate ship (long range) vs My fleet of Beam/Cannon (short range) ships.

Kingofanime added a comment.EditedMar 6 2016, 7:39 PM

One time I was testing the fleet sentry command... my fleet ship didn't respond until it got the beam computer shot off. Which switched the ship from a short range weapon (Beam/Cannon) to a longer range weapon (Cannon). It then began fighting back, but none of the other fleet members helped.

Kingofanime added a comment.Mar 6 2016, 7:53 PM

It's also worth noting, that when you're using the defend sector command, if your fleet ships have short range weapons that are less than the 2km sector size... I think it's possible to have enemies in your defended sector being ignored by your fleet.

lancake added a comment.Mar 12 2016, 7:47 PM

Thanks for the feedback, will check that out as soon as I can use the test server again.

lancake changed the task status from Open to In Queue (Game).Mar 28 2016, 7:36 PM

-Confirmed-

Forgot to move this one around, but the issue was tested and it was fixed. They should engage anything in load range in 0.19624

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Kingofanime added a comment.Mar 28 2016, 10:46 PM

Wow, you're right, this does seem be working.

Now I feel like doing some more AI combat testing, while I observe in my cloak ship.

Kingofanime added a comment.Mar 29 2016, 3:44 PM

The Sentry command is working great now.

lancake moved this task from Backlog / Unclassed to Confirmed fix on the Quality Assurance board.Apr 2 2016, 12:32 PM
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-QA Testing-

Aggros them as soon as they enter load range. They also return to their defend sector if they go too far.

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