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stormbringer951

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Ending combat when retreating from a fight involving allies
« on: January 19, 2021, 10:19:53 AM »
When a player has retreated from a battle with allies, the game should have an option to end combat when all your ships are off-field.

The most common case where this can become really annoying is in extremely large/multi-fleet fights such as Nex invasions, where you might plausibly be defending a friendly station with large numbers of friendlies and enemies present but have to retreat your fleet because of PPT/CR, there needs to be an option to end combat so you don't need to spend a lot of time watching the AI fight it out.
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Re: Ending combat when retreating from a fight involving allies
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2021, 10:33:42 AM »
Just double checked - this looks like it's actually fixed for the next release! That is, if you "full retreat" in this situation, combat will end.
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Re: Ending combat when retreating from a fight involving allies
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2021, 10:42:49 AM »
Quote from: Alex on January 19, 2021, 10:33:42 AM
Just double checked - this looks like it's actually fixed for the next release! That is, if you "full retreat" in this situation, combat will end.

Would it be possible to add some sort of prompt to battles with allies? Similar to the "you have nothing deployed, do you want to leave" esque prompt that you get when you've retreated all your ships in a regular non-ally battle?

Someone on Discord told me right after I posted the thread that setting "full retreat" solves it in the current version, but I and another long-time player on Discord both weren't aware that was a thing, so it may need to be indicated more obviously in the UI somehow.
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Re: Ending combat when retreating from a fight involving allies
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2021, 11:07:56 AM »
Ah, funny! Yeah, good idea - let me do that, that is, allied deployed ships will no longer prevent the automatic "order a full retreat" prompt that comes up.
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Re: Ending combat when retreating from a fight involving allies
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2021, 11:17:20 AM »
Awesome!
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