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[TheHappyFace]

whenever i am on my own fighting a single ships.
the ships flees at the end of the battle and due to it being faster it can out-run me.
this is not the problem i am talking about.
the problem or maybe better called glitch is that when this happens i can just simply press "esc" ,leave battle and end up disabling the enemy ship,
while otherwise it would have simply out ran me and retreated before i could destroy him.

[Faiter119]

When you Esc you autoresolve the battle with the remaining ships. Not taking position into account.

[TheHappyFace]

therefor giving me a glitch

edit: which i am abusing atm

[Alex]

Does this *always* happen, or do the ships mostly end up retreating, and only occasionally get wrecked? Regardless of how the battle ends, retreating ships on the losing end take some free shots - so there's a chance of this happening even if you don't auto-resolve.

[Faiter119]

Happens all of the time. If you autoresolve when there is just afew fleeing ships left, they are just about always destroyed. I think ive used it afew times in my LP.

[Alex]

Ah, thanks. That's not supposed to happen, then - the game is supposed to track that stuff was retreating and not stuffing it back into an autoresolve battle. I'll take a look when I get a chance.

[Cosmitz]

Alex, let me shed some light here since this is an issue on both sides.

First, if you put a retreat order and autoresolve before it actually shows you the prompt that the ship left the battle, autoresolve counts that ship as an active participant in the battle. Same in the issue said above, if there are damaged fighter wings left and fleeing for example, a common occurrence start-game, you can auto-resolve and you'll almost certainly get them even if you could not do it otherwise. Same for example can happen when you have a super slow ship and cannot get in range of say a Hound. If you auto-resolve and you're in a sufficiently powerful ship, the game just assumes you'd win while in fact, you'd never be able to touch it.

[Alex]

Thanks. Yeah, definitely sounds like the code that's supposed to keep retreating ships out of the subsequent autoresolve isn't working rght.