Fleet Ship Bug when Leaving Battle

[Vangeroth]

So I don't know if this is a bug or a new feature (if it's a new feature then it's not been made very apparent as I spoke with several people in the US Nation chat box and no one knew what was going wrong), but apparently when you leave a battle, the Fleet Ships that you have sailing with you lose a Durability point. I realize this was causing it until I spawned outside of battle (after leaving the battle) and my Fleet ship was no longer in my UI that normally shows up on the left hand side of the game screen.

I double checked and triple checked, and after still not seeing it I went to the closest port to find that the ship was in fact gone.

So unless players are now being punished for leaving battle (in hopes to save their ships), then this seems like a really big bug to me. I last played NA last Sunday, so I don't know it the Devs can see the game logs anymore from that day, but I stopped playing right after this happened (due to frustration) and haven't played again since.

 

Anyone have any insight on this? Is it a bug? Or is this now in fact a feature? To which I say is a pretty low joke if I ever have known one.

[Angus McGregor]

I am guessing that you mean you 'escaped' a battle by getting out of range and leaving when the 'Press Esc to leave' prompt came up.

If yes, I also had this problem but was advised in nation chat (not US) that you must order your fleet ships to retreat and wait for them to successfully exit the battle first before pressing Esc yourself. I was given the impression it's always been this way.

[Vangeroth]

40 minutes ago, Angus McGregor said:

I am guessing that you mean you 'escaped' a battle by getting out of range and leaving when the 'Press Esc to leave' prompt came up.

If yes, I also had this problem but was advised in nation chat (not US) that you must order your fleet ships to retreat and wait for them to successfully exit the battle first before pressing Esc yourself. I was given the impression it's always been this way.

There was a point (at least to my knowledge/memory) that you could leave a battle and your Fleet would Auto-Follow you out, and their Durability points would not be affected. Maybe I just haven't used fleet in a while then.

Wasn't aware you had to order then to leave though. Any idea how this is done?

[Angus McGregor]

Press 'M' in the battle screen to get the battle map and select the 'Retreat' option for your fleet ships.

If you haven't seen that screen, there's other commands in there too. Any command you give will apply to all your fleet ships. Afaik you can't give them separate orders.

General orders:

• Follow Me (this works)
• Hold Fire (mine won't)
• Free mode (do what you want)
• Retreat (run away!)

Specific enemy ship (click one)

• Demast (never had this succeed yet - sometimes damages sails)
• Destroy (focus fire here)

[Vangeroth]

38 minutes ago, Angus McGregor said:

Press 'M' in the battle screen to get the battle map and select the 'Retreat' option for your fleet ships.

If you haven't seen that screen, there's other commands in there too. Any command you give will apply to all your fleet ships. Afaik you can't give them separate orders.

General orders:

• Follow Me (this works)
• Hold Fire (mine won't)
• Free mode (do what you want)
• Retreat (run away!)

Specific enemy ship (click one)

• Demast (never had this succeed yet - sometimes damages sails)
• Destroy (focus fire here)

The more you know I guess. Never knew that menu even existed. Thanks!

[Ink]

9 hours ago, Vangeroth said:

So I don't know if this is a bug or a new feature (if it's a new feature then it's not been made very apparent as I spoke with several people in the US Nation chat box and no one knew what was going wrong), but apparently when you leave a battle, the Fleet Ships that you have sailing with you lose a Durability point. I realize this was causing it until I spawned outside of battle (after leaving the battle) and my Fleet ship was no longer in my UI that normally shows up on the left hand side of the game screen.

I double checked and triple checked, and after still not seeing it I went to the closest port to find that the ship was in fact gone.

So unless players are now being punished for leaving battle (in hopes to save their ships), then this seems like a really big bug to me. I last played NA last Sunday, so I don't know it the Devs can see the game logs anymore from that day, but I stopped playing right after this happened (due to frustration) and haven't played again since.

 

Anyone have any insight on this? Is it a bug? Or is this now in fact a feature? To which I say is a pretty low joke if I ever have known one.

Captain, this is not a bug, since we've brought fleet ships back you have to command them to retreat, if you left the battle before your fleet ships, they lose a durability point

[Vangeroth]

While on the topic of controlling fleets, can you (while in a Fleet Mission) command the AI Fleet ships? Meaning not ones within your own personal fleet? Ones that spawn with the mission.

[Angus McGregor]

8 hours ago, Vangeroth said:

While on the topic of controlling fleets, can you (while in a Fleet Mission) command the AI Fleet ships? Meaning not ones within your own personal fleet? Ones that spawn with the mission.

No