Aurora 4x

New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: trabber Shir on November 13, 2020, 06:49:10 AM

Title: How do you delay orders?
Post by: trabber Shir on November 13, 2020, 06:49:10 AM

I have seen a few places where people have mentioned delaying orders for one reason or another.  I can't figure out how to do that though.  Is that a feature which did not get ported to C# or am I just failing at reading the UI? If it is the latter, what am I missing.

the most recent reference I saw was hxxp: aurora2. pentarch. org/index. php?topic=11615. msg136168#msg136168

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Give it a delayed Move order and a Send Message order, both of which target the fleet's permanent location, and cycle the orders.

Title: Re: How do you delay orders?
Post by: Elvin on November 13, 2020, 07:29:38 AM

When you give an order, pretty much any order, an "order delay" field appears at the bottom of the boxes. Put any number in there and that's how long the order will be delayed by. I think it's in seconds.

Title: Re: How do you delay orders?
Post by: trabber Shir on November 13, 2020, 07:42:48 AM

Thank you.  I had looked down there but somehow not seen that field.  Solved.

Title: Re: How do you delay orders?
Post by: Michael Sandy on November 13, 2020, 10:54:40 PM

I used to use it to ensure that my rock checking probe fighters stopped at each rock they were checking for long enough that a subphase would process, ensuring that detection would be checked for at zero range.