"Command: None"

[spacecoyote99]

Hi, loaded up my savegame today and I noticed none of my trade ships were moving. I checked my ships and all captains have status "Command: none" Previously I saw this in occasional NPC ships here and there, but looking around now I see many, many NPC ships immobile with the same status. Both capital and S/M trade ships.

I do have several mods installed from the workshop which influence ship behavior (Miscellaneous Combat Tweaks and Save Trading seem to be the only ones that affect AI, the rest are non-ai related tweaks I think.)

This game has been running (with these mods) for about 48 hours, until now without issue.

I saw several older threads on the forum with this issue, but none that offered any idea of why and how this can be prevented.

My question: is there any way to "reboot" these ships? Can you clear any existing order and go back to default behavior, maybe by editing the save?

edit: even stranger, now I can't open comm with any of my affected ships. The captain's portrait appears briefly in the monitor then immediately closes again

[UniTrader]

sound to me like you removed a mod and the Scripts they were executing is now gone. the same for the Dialogue Tree.

[spacecoyote99]

I didn't do anything to the mods as far as I know. Is it possible something updated in the workshop causing this? Does this mean if I load an older savegame the same thing will happen after a while? (older savegames, at least initially, seem to work fine)

[UniTrader]

if the author made some changes to the Script/Cue Names - yes. save would still refer to the old names which are now gone.

[spacecoyote99]

But if that were the case it would be the same result for older saves using the same mods right? The older saves seem to be working alright.

[tijcker]

No, I have the same issue, have no mods fitted,, lots of ships everywhere with no orders, some blocking up ports.

noticed it half way though the campaign, that a lot of ships did not move, defend or attack,,


Just had to board a RoC cap ship that was blocking a warehouse port that had no orders,, Didnt defend himself and no one came to his aid.. would be nice if you could demand them to move aside.

The game really needs some fail safes, something like every ten minuets it runs though all the cap ship that have no orders and makes them do something.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Thread moved from Tech Support to modding forum since OP had used some - Sparky

No, I have the same issue, have no mods fitted,, lots of ships everywhere with no orders, some blocking up ports.

Saying "no mods fitted" is unfortunately ambiguous in this case because it could theoretically mean that you've unsubscribed from or deleted mods, but that wouldn't mean they couldn't have an effect in the future.

If you have never used mods or save game edits with your game, please create a new bug report thread in the beta forum, providing the info request here. Thanks.