The enemy AI controls your ships too?

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The Drengin were attacking from the "north", and I had a stack of six constructors heading that way on autopilot. I tried clicking on them to divert them. But those ships were bound and determined to rush "north" to their death.

I think the Drengin empire had some sort of tractor beam that was pulling those ships toward it. No matter how hard I tried, those ships were pulled, pulled, pulled north. I think I did convince one of them to turn away. But the others rushed to their death!

Wouldn't it be awesome if the game would wait until you had finished giving orders for the turn (and had pressed some sort of button) before moving all the ships on autopilot?

Most of the time, I really do feel like the enemy AI is controlling my ships instead of me. :)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The problem with stacked units on auto-pilot, if they aren't grouped into a fleet, is that once you try to select any but the top unit, they will execute their auto-pilot orders before giving you control. In order to avoid this problem, you can either group your units into a fleet to cancel the auto-pilot, or always remember to move the first unit manually and let the game cede control of the next unit in line (keep some other units with movement points to delay onset of the auto-pilot phase). This UI could use some improvement of course ;)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for the fleet tip! I grouped my six constructors in a fleet and was able to cancel their autopilot orders. Thanks!
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