try send attacking order to the condor or any similar carrier
you will loose command points but order will not be executed
1'st I thought this is some mod issue but it happend to me on the 1'st Exerelin mod when it use just the vanilla ships
the only way to send an attack order to the carrier is to add more units with the carrier & then send attack order
Seems to work for me. What I did:
1. Start up "For the Greater Lud"
2. Deploy the Condor, nothing else
3. Create "Assault" on any objective, Condor is not auto-assigned (which is correct)
4. Select Condor, right-click on the objective, it's assigned to the "Assault"
Do you have any idea what we might be doing differently?
But I was paused therefore the command channel didn't close. I should have been able to get my points back.
Whether it's paused or not doesn't play into it, it's just the fact that the channel being open let you do something that you wouldn't be able to otherwise. So, at that point, you don't get a refund - otherwise you could exploit that to give orders for free.
In theory, the game could keep track of whatever you did and undo it when you cancel, but that'd likely be *more* confusing ("hey, why did this direct order get revoked when I cancelled an unrelated assignment?").
