Why are you making the game WORSE for us?

Perhaps... just perhaps... they're busy ruining the game with, say, additional content? a new combat system? So you're saying you don't want the effort of telling a ship to attack something manually, but you have the effort to come here to rant about, ahem, how you

can't believe I paid for this horse crap.

Learn what game breaking means too. Seriously. Insta CTD: game breaking. Overheating bug: game breaking. AI failure to initiate: game breaking. One hot key not doing what you want it to: a minor bug.

The game is constantly getting better. If in your world better means worse, then I would leave before the second expansion and the "nirvana of crapness".

Oh something like that seen before. I ordered a ship to auto-explore and placed it into the orbit. When I pulled it out there, the ship just ran like a cockroach automatically.

Having to reissue orders for 50 ships each and every game turn is hardly a "minor bug", Marcathonas, but it's good to see you're still having fun jumping down the throats of people who are having legitimate problems that you aren't.

I've noticed that Auto Attack doesn't work on mine either. Or that you can't give it two orders like Auto Explore and attack.

Another development that came and went was the really nice coloured flight plan you got when you sent ships out on the main map - I think it was in 1.0X or 1.1 somewhere round there.

I thought it was great, because when I had 20 - 30 colony ships moving about, I knew where each one was going, so I didn't have to rename each one with its destination planet.

I would like to see that one make a comeback.

I've never used Auto Attack before, I'll have to try it in the game I'm in to see if the same thing happens to me. With Auto Explore though, all my ships that I set on it migrate towards the same path and I end up with dozens of scouts all flying in a line like Lemmings. This sort of defeats the purpose of Auto Exploring. The exploration path should be random each time you click w. At least this way some of your scouts would go explore somewhere different.

i think replies like marcothonas' are more in response to the tone of the post - there is nothing wrong with pointing out a flaw/gripe you have with the game but it should be done politely and with respect, and the OP was done with neither.

I'm glad this was confirmed, by more than two sensible posters.

Autoattack used to find enemies like Survey found anomalies. When game first came out, it did, anyway.
Then they patched it. Autoattack took ship to the location of where an enemy was at the time K was issued then toggle itself off.
Now it just doesn't work, at all.

Why are you making the game worse? Instead of 150 thinking captains flying 150 ships, I have 150 dumbwaiters.

For example you, complaining how bad the AI is because it's beaten you with a legitimate tactic you couldn't see.

Or perhaps yourself, for completely missing the real point of the post you are talking about, even after it was explained in excruciating detail? But nevermind my posts, you are deliberately trying to derail this thread to hide the fact that your arguments are inane, because the OP of this thread isn't asking for all other development to cease in order to address his one issue.

ringapromethius just wants a feature that saves a lot of time which worked before to work again, so that he doesn't have to reissue orders for dozens of ships every single turn, but as usual you reduce a valid point to infinitessimal size and expand your own arguments to ridiculous proportions just to make yourself look better than everyone else, a sad tactic that small people have used for time immemorial to boost their low self esteem.

So many reasons for flaming and blaming.

Geez children.

OK the function is now broke. Tell them and ask them to fix it.

and by the way (for those that NEED this) Quit bickering.

(I never knew that there were any "auto" functions)