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Setting a fleet role to Defend and letting it then guard a base and its vicinity does nothing.

In the save file attached, a "Defend" fleet hast the orders "Defend targets withn 50% fuel range of base". There is a pirate raid at another base in the same system. The "Defend" fleet does nothing.

Also: you cannot set fleets to patrol a system, only individual ships.

Thank you for this. Initially, your fleet is set to an automated defensive role but it also has orders to "Guard" the spaceport, meaning it won't move away. However, I spotted another issue there where once I resolved that it was only reacting if I as a player agreed to the advisor suggestion to react but since you had it set to ship tactics overriding, the ships should have been willing to react on their own too. It could be that they didn't think they were strong enough to take on those three pirates unless moving in as a fleet, which would require an automated, manual or advisor military order. We'll work on this as soon as we've resolved the critical issues preventing some customers from playing DW2 at all.