Patrol command is useless!
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Patrol command is useless!
The "patrol" command is completely useless!
The behaviour of the ships is incomprehensible. They patrol calmly, while not far away pirates or even the Khaak cheerfully thins out my mining ships! (destroying one after another)
Why can't they find out what's going on in this sector?
Even from the satellites in the sector! Or even the ship under attack could give a distress signal. And then they could come to the aid of the attacked ship!
As it is, they're just wandering around the sector like idiots!
I know it's too late, because this game doesn't matter anymore. But perhaps more thought could be given to this in the future.
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The behaviour of the ships is incomprehensible. They patrol calmly, while not far away pirates or even the Khaak cheerfully thins out my mining ships! (destroying one after another)
Why can't they find out what's going on in this sector?
Even from the satellites in the sector! Or even the ship under attack could give a distress signal. And then they could come to the aid of the attacked ship!
As it is, they're just wandering around the sector like idiots!
I know it's too late, because this game doesn't matter anymore. But perhaps more thought could be given to this in the future.
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Re: Patrol command is useless!
You are correct. The only thing that works is to give your patrol ships, orders to protect until further notice, a station that you place near the "hot spot" where the Kha'ak tend to appear. Another way to make the patrol command to be more useful is to order 1 ship to patrol and others to mimic the commander (I use 1 Katana on patrol and 9 others to mimic), that achieve a better sector coverage. Also, give up all your M miners and replace them with L miners. L miners will stay alive, until the patrol ships, finally, stumble across the Kha'ak. Even so, more often than not, I find myself giving atack targets in range to the patrol ships, but, at least, L miners will not die.
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Where did you get this idea? The devs are still releasing new features and DLC, improving the AI, fixing bugs, etc. We had a massive DLC 8 months ago, and at least another one to come.Szines Geza wrote: ↑Tue, 23. Nov 21, 19:28I know it's too late, because this game doesn't matter anymore. But perhaps more thought could be given to this in the future.
Sure, there are some places that still need improvement. Patrol feature is one of them, and not the only one. But considering all that's been added to and fixed in the game so far, I'd say they will eventually get to that.
If you take a peek at the changelog for the next patch, this here is listed:
Not exactly the patrol feature, I know, but it may be related enough to be affected.Improved coordination between multiple free-flying police operating in same sector.
In my game, I have a couple of squads in Frontier's Edge that are in charge of protecting my miners from ka'haks and xenons, and they do a moderately decent job of it. They still need a bit of babysitting here and there when distant miners are in trouble, but they will hunt down any enemy ships within radar range and assist close-by miners. I'm tempted to just add 2-3 wings of fighters and see if it does the job.
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Re: Patrol command is useless!
They can only see things within their own radar range. It would be nice if we could give them access to specific satellites or something, or perhaps give us a new type of satellite that can relay information to patrolling ships. And a station module perhaps too.Szines Geza wrote: ↑Tue, 23. Nov 21, 19:28The "patrol" command is completely useless!
The behaviour of the ships is incomprehensible. They patrol calmly, while not far away pirates or even the Khaak cheerfully thins out my mining ships! (destroying one after another)
Why can't they find out what's going on in this sector?
Even from the satellites in the sector! Or even the ship under attack could give a distress signal. And then they could come to the aid of the attacked ship!
As it is, they're just wandering around the sector like idiots!
I know it's too late, because this game doesn't matter anymore. But perhaps more thought could be given to this in the future.
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Re: Patrol command is useless!
There is a radar range ship mod, green i believe, for basic nanoweave. Does anyone know how much of a radius increase it gives? Perhaps patrol ships would operate mich better with an increased range.
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5 - 20%. So its not going to make much difference.
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I would suggest not to let them patrol. From military point of view, patrol is not seeing what really is important, just be a dumb-ass(when I was in the military) and walk the fence until coffee break! But this is not real life, this is a game. I also let big carriers with loads of behemoths and whatnot patrol a sector, but when it comes to mining areas, I always appoint at least two little fighters at their side to protect them, that helps.
Maybe you made this mistake, cause I also saw that patrol is not always 'seeing' the enemy and I had to step in to made them aware.. I find this not a flaw, just something we can overcome...
I hope you try this....
Maybe you made this mistake, cause I also saw that patrol is not always 'seeing' the enemy and I had to step in to made them aware.. I find this not a flaw, just something we can overcome...
I hope you try this....
Ps. Computers can make errors, they are made and programmed by error-making humans.
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Yeah, patrol isn't a command I use anymore. - What I do is have small fleets or even individual ships with the leader set to 'Repeat' and then right click on a few areas of concern with the command 'attack targets in range.' - It works well, especially against Kha'ak, but is best employed with multiple small fleets with overlapping 'attack targets in range' commands.
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I also let my carrier patrol the sector. However I also set a global order to give an alert when khaak is detected in the sector. This way when I hear the alert, I can manually deploy fighters from the carrier to take care of the khaak.
I know this means manual intervention, but it does work quite well!
It would be really cool if NPCs (but als your patrols) would react on distress signals. That would make the game much more dynamic and immersive. If someone is in trouble, then law-abiding citizens and law enforcement should respond. Not completely ignore the ship in distress and let him be destroyed.
I know this means manual intervention, but it does work quite well!
It would be really cool if NPCs (but als your patrols) would react on distress signals. That would make the game much more dynamic and immersive. If someone is in trouble, then law-abiding citizens and law enforcement should respond. Not completely ignore the ship in distress and let him be destroyed.
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If Protect Position could be given a much larger radius, that would probably go a long way towards solving the issues... because ships do react to threats inside the protect position radius.
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Re: Patrol command is useless!
I remember a statement that the ships using its "default" radar range, so with this in mind ship mods are useless.
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Its ok, but not if the mining area is too large. In combination with the "Sector Patrol" mod you get decent results. Or just skip RF and just use SP and kill any suspect in the first place. Less immersion but also less trouble.Jaskan wrote: ↑Thu, 25. Nov 21, 09:47Maybe you should try reaction force instead
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