Automation Follies: Full Tanks Fleet wait for tanker instead of attacking

[100thMonkey]

Platform: Steam
Build version: v1.3.4.3.1 Beta (started with v1.3.3.6) + all Expansions and DLCs
Severity: Medium
Annoyance factor: High
Saved game:

The Culture - Quameno - 2785-01-01.7z

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1st Fleet (automated in attack mode) has plenty of fuel, and is nearby a Gravillex that it could easily defeat (in the UC278 system). But instead of attacking it, it has deciced to stop and needlessly wait for a tanker!

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Automated fleet needlessly wait for tanker.png (116.72 KiB) Viewed 752 times

Seems to me that solving this type of problems should be a priority. Automation is touted as one of the game's selling point, but what's the point of automation if one must constantly check what it does...

[Xmudder]

Seems to me that solving this type of problems should be a priority. Automation is touted as one of the game's selling point, but what's the point of automation if one must constantly check what it does...

Seen this a lot as well, very annoying. Fleets shouldn't stop and wait for tankers until they are almost empty. They should complete their mission, and then refuel locally.

[100thMonkey]

I think even better would be a fleet tactical setting allowing to specify at what level of fuel it should go for refuel (or wait for tankers). And a notification when a fleet, automated or not, needs fuel.

[100thMonkey]

Same problem again, in the same game, but even worse !!!

Automated 1st Fleet was still having a mission that I just cancelled in control center. And instead of taking on the next queued mission in control center (in Dangerous Locations), it decided to wait for tankers, even though its tanks are all full !

This makes the automation pretty much unusable.

Then I decided to manually assign the 1st Fleet the mission I wanted it to take on. And even then, after the fleet having switch to manual mode and been ordered to go to Astra 1 (where I want to create an outpost), IT'S STILL WAITING FOR TANKERS!!!

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Wait for tanker even after manual order.png (553.29 KiB) Viewed 487 times

Save file:

The Culture - Quameno - 2786-08-22.7z

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N.B.: The save was done before I gave the manual order to 1st fleet.

[100thMonkey]

Additional info about the problem: I gave a manual order to 1st Fleet to go to Astra 1. The first screenshot below shows that it's flagship is indeed moving, at hyperspeed, toward Astra 1. But as the second screenshot shows, the fleet's selection panel still says that it's waiting for tankers !?!

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Save file:

The Culture - Quameno - 2787-02-20.7z

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