"protect ship" more like "sight seeing while watching ships get blown up

[tigar]

So i watched in sadness as halfway across the galaxy my trader(who mind you is protected by 3 ships) got destroyed over the course of 5 minutes as i tried to race over there by 2 small pirate ships while my traders escorts just sat there and looked pretty and laughed as 2 million cred worth of items got blown up

Like what is the point of having fighter ships worth 1.4m cred x3 protect ships when they dont do anything

Add in slow autosave timers made me have to decide either rebuy a 2m ship(and loose a big chunk of money) or roll back 40 minutes of exploration all that because 3 fighters cant take care of 2 tiny pirates

And best part this is the 2nd time its happened to me now

[BlackRain]

So i watched in sadness as halfway across the galaxy my trader(who mind you is protected by 3 ships) got destroyed over the course of 5 minutes as i tried to race over there by 2 small pirate ships while my traders escorts just sat there and looked pretty and laughed as 2 million cred worth of items got blown up

Like what is the point of having fighter ships worth 1.4m cred x3 protect ships when they dont do anything

Add in slow autosave timers made me have to decide either rebuy a 2m ship(and loose a big chunk of money) or roll back 40 minutes of exploration all that because 3 fighters cant take care of 2 tiny pirates

And best part this is the 2nd time its happened to me now

add the ships to the squad of the trader and they will protect it properly

[reqw]

No they don't as they fly away

[Net-FX]

No they don't as they fly away

Don't forget, your escort vessels will only be as good as the pilots/captains piloting them. If they are low level, well, they'll pretty much be newbies, learning on the job. As their experience grows [their stars go up] the better they will be.

Consider 'training' them by adding them to your own squad. Go hunting, get some combat going and be sure to protect your squadmates and watch them slowly improve with each kill.

[BlackRain]

No they don't as they fly away

Hmm, I have some ships escorting another ship, seems to work. Maybe skill of pilots matters here?

[reqw]

The problem that is the ships that are suposed to defend fly far in advance.

example.

my trader with 2 assigned defende ships go to station buy the were and set out to the station to sell.

the defending crafts fly ther first and wait and not actualy escorting the ship leaving it undefended. whats the meening of that if the trader gets attacked the defending crafts might or might not try and return to defend but it will be far to late to defend the ship by that point .

a defending craft shoud fly in formation with the trader and intercept any and all ships trying to impead the trader.

so you dont have any defence what so ever when they defending crafts fly of to god knows were thinking that o well that trader will make it here we did dident we.

sure i myself whant that egobeer as mutch as the next guy but you do need to think of the next one at the next station.
your not going to be able to buy more if the trader cant make some cash .

[TempestZ]

Formation flying is not working. When the wing gets a move order, all ships head there individually. Fighters are faster so they leave the miner alone. Quite sad

[reqw]

thats what i meen. no defence what so ever for the trader

[Grudd]

Formation flying is not working. When the wing gets a move order, all ships head there individually. Fighters are faster so they leave the miner alone. Quite sad

+1.

Seeing the same problem.

[Warnoise]

Same problem. I think this is an AI bug because　behavior it reminds of 1.x Xrebirth where flight formation AI was bugged.

[tigar]

Guess for now we will just have to deck out our freighters as war machines

[Kamiyoda]

Guess for now we will just have to deck out our freighters as war machines

Im using Corvettes as freighters