Autoturn fails if last ship attacks a planet.

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After attacking a planet with a star fighter the ship still had a move left (normal?). After moving the ship it showed
still selected with 0 moves. TAB and FIND did not find another ship to move (there were two others not in orbit), so I
assume all of the ships had moved this turn. This is inconsistant with anything else I have ssen, but perhaps this is a
good thing. It allows one to decide whether or not one wishes to change any destinations given to other ships. But...

Cheers,
Jack
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Same behavior after attacking a ship.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Interesting. Thanks John.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Jack, did you move the ship with auto-pilot? Were the other ships on auto-pilot? Do you know if the other ships had (or should have had) destinations?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
The attack and the move afterwards was manually directed using the number pad while the ship was adjacent to the planet or ship I am attacking.

Also, I have noticed that after attacking a ship the empty space previously occupied by the distroyed ship can not be entered during the same
turn. This is similar to the report I made about not being able to land a transport on a planet in the same turn after destroying all of the
enemy ships in orbit. Are these problems related?

Cheers,
Jack
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Interesting,
how can you attack a planet with a transport on the same turn that you destroy all ships in orbit? When I have a transport beside a planet it gets destroyed if you attack ships in orbit. Transports only move one space per turn. So if you cannot have a transport beside the planet (or it gets destroyed) you cannot possibly capture the planet on the same turn anyway.
Or am I missing something?

Paul.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Um...I'm not sure about the transport problem. It's true that if you're targetting a ship and it gets destroyed, you can't move into its space immediately.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Paul,
Why is your transport getting destroyed when you are attacking a planet with, what I assume is, a ship with
attack capabilities? This has not happened to me, but I may have been protecting my transport by moving it with
my attacking ship (always in the same place). Next time around I am going to put my transport next to a planet
in a space by itself while attacking an enemy planet or enemy ship to see what happens.

Cheers,
Jack