Behaviour Bugged? I'm getting worried...

[Studders]

Anyone else think the behaviour of ships is bugged? I have a miner going about its business on automine and seems to be fine. I have another ship I set the behaviour to protect the other ship. After about 2 hours I just went to see what they are up to and the ship I set to protect is over 5 sectors away and just moving really slowly across the sector it's in. I have looked at the behaviour for the ship and it is definitely set to protect. It was definitely working at first, not sure if when the miner docks the other ship just seems to forget and stops following the behaviour.

I'm also noticing that there are no enemies anywhere, pirates threaten and then don't follow up when I ignore them. When I engage they don't fire back and just take the hits. I'm getting worried that too much seems broken at the minute. Im really enjoying myself but these things are starting to pile up and I feel like a beta tester =/. Just read on another post that if enemies arent fighting then my save is corrupted and I have to restart? After 10 hours I would rather not have to do that.

Someone tell me everything will be okay

[Ashtronaut]

Honestly I've been wondering the same. When i tell a ship to follow it tends to sit where it is and then after a few jumps it will move in the exact path the target ship travelled. When i tell them to defend nothing happens.

I managed to get 2 ships in my own wing by opening comms and telling them to join my squad but whether they actually follow me or not is hit and miss, they don't seem to like jumpgates or highways. Often i'll spot them on the map 3 sectors behind me trying to catch up extremely slowly. Or they've decided to just hover outside a station i docked at idling.

I cant tell whether the AI is bugged or if I'm just using the wrong commands, there isn't any in-depth explanations as to how it all works. Chances are I'm just being stupid. I do that a lot.

[Studders]

Yeah exactly. It's like it hasn't been tested properly at all. Mine seem to follow orders up until the point the ship they are protecting docks and then they stop and just float about not checking to see if the target ship has undocked.

On top of that nothing is attacking me at all. Xenon, Khaak, pirates...I'm a ghost to these.

[Ashtronaut]

Oh man, I read something about the enemies not attacking needing a fresh start, something about a bugged save. I'm a little nervous now because I've been assuming I've just been going too fast for the enemies to attack... Damn

On the upside at least we know this will be a real decent game once the the devs iron out the bugs

[Studders]

Yeah I read that too a few mins ago. I feel like I should start again to find out.

This really will be a quality game, I didn't even realise it was coming out until a couple of weeks ago. I just wish it had been tested further before release because paying £40 with this many things broken seems a bit unreasonable. I don't mind paying it but fundamental things like "Follow ship" and enemies attacking the player should not be broken and cause us to restart.

[bl3ek]

Is it something to do with crew stats?

When I ask my small vessels to follow or defend a freighter they lag 2-3 jumps behind. Moving slowly and sometimes stopped.

I lost a freighter last night to pirates, the escort was just tip-toeing along in random space.

Now what I did notice is that when I set to defend, there were 0 stars next to that behaviour. So, is that the problem - rubbish pilot?

But that then bes the question, how do we get them to improve or hire better? This part is really not clear or explained.

[Studders]

If it's crew stats then fair enough but I wouldnt expect them to be so bad that they stop and sit there. But yeah there is no explanation to any of this. Is there even a manual??

Annoyed because I'm really enjoying this game so far but now apparently I need to restart because nothing attacks me.