Lost in Space!

Where is that fleet???

from Sins Forums

Just discovered a weird, but unfortunately game busting glitch in Diplomacy 1.21. When you build a fleet and leave it to its own devices in a gravity well the whole fleet 'wanders off' into deep space (moves out of the gravity well). I've notice this happening about mid game when large fleets of 350-400 supply or bigger are built. The fleet can usually be found loitering somewhere on the map. When ordered to move they just stay quite happily in deep space and never return to a gravity well! This is frustrating as it means that your fleet capacity is technically crippled. Any ideas what causes this and why? By the way Entrenchment runs fine without this problem.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I have this bug too. There seems to be no way to avoid it, and it seem to happen when ships jump by other ships still moving into position. You can order the "lost" fleet to jump to the planet they're supposed to go to again and they will right away, though.

 

Alternatively, you can just salvage them (Click the ship, click the orange/black bar at the bottom of the screen under the middle picture, or do shift + S) to regain some materials and fleet points.

 

While that's not a fix, it's at least something to make the game playable again.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

This has been observed to happen since the beginning of the game actually, but no one has been able to reliably recreate this issue. If you can hopefully the Devs will see this and request a save/replay so they can see what actually causes it.

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