Colony assault bug

feskslo

I've started playing only a couple of days ago so not sure if this is a bug or not.

I spied out a colony, it had tons of resources and no garrison. I go to assault it, but as soon as my fleet arrives at the colony it just returns to base. Just to make it clear: this is not on a starter planet.

barbily

Hi feskslo, if you assult someone's colony, and you win. your fleets will garrison in his colony. You can take some of his resources or establish trade routes. But if your fleets return to base, i am afraid you fleets may be defeated without your notice. did you check?

feskslo

Reply 2# barbily

Hi.

Thanks for the response.

There was no garrison at the colony in question (checked before and after the assault!). There was no fight, I received no message with battle report. My fleet just turns and heads home when it arrives at the colony, no ships lost. They did not garrison the colony. I checked to make sure that I had room for more trade routes at my colony.   I also sent a different fleet to check if my first fleet was bugged. Same problem. Also, both fleets could garrison different colonies afterwards. So it seems the colony was bugged. I can PM you the name of the bugged colony if that helps.

barbily

could you tell me the buggy colony location? so i could have a check

feskslo

Reply 4# barbily


    I PMed you the location, dont want to announce it in here.

barbily

thanks. got it

LatexIdo

That's what happened when a player use a shield on a colony after you give order for an assault.

Did you try to assault another time ?

feskslo

Reply 7# LatexIdo

With a shielded colony, the "assault" and "obliterate" buttons are greyed out, and you can't send the assault to begin with. Also, there's a countdown timer above the colony showing for how long the colony is shielded.

LatexIdo

Reply 8# feskslo

Yeah, I know that.

But if you send assault, and THEN the player assaulted use a shield, it happens what you described. As I don't know exactly what happened, and that this "shielding" thing happened to me, I just though maybe it was the same for you. Or maybe a bug related to this.

GKZhukov

This is a serious bug.

At least two of us have had fleets automatically returning to base instead of assaulting. No shield has been activated in this case.

One possibility is the target was in an alliance with a 5 day fort - perhaps there's some old coding left over from when the forts afforded protection?

Whatever it is needs fixing ASAP since disreputable types can make use of this to raid nodes whilst being un-attackable...