Escaping the 5 sec increment

[Zeebie (OP)]

I recently delivered a surprise attack on the other race that started in Sol, and shattered their naval strength right away.  After the big battle was over, though, I was still being forced into 5 second increments.  So I hunted down all their ships, in case there was still some target acquisition going on. But I'm still in 5 second increments, and has been for three in-game days now.  The only hostile forces in the system are their ground forces. None of my ships have targets  or fire orders.

So I'm not sure what's going on:
- There could be some hidden ships responsible for the "imminent action" warning.  Any suggestions for finding them? I used SM to disable sensors, with no effect
- Extrasolar NPRs started fighting at the same time as me, and are still doing so. This seems an unlikely coincidence, and three days seems like a long time
- Something else?

[vorpal+5]

Run Aurora overnight on auto until the first interrupt which will hopefully be past the 5 seconds? Pragmatic approach here ... You can't change the current system, so deal with it 

[SpikeTheHobbitMage]

If even one of your fire controls was accidentally left on then it will lock the game in 5 sec intervals.

[Zeebie (OP)]

I can confirm that every single fire control is off.  I've let the game run on 5 sec increments for 12 IRL hours, no change.

[vorpal+5]

Make a copy of the DB, then delete all your ships. If you don't have a 5 secs increment, then the culprit lies within your navy. If you do, then that's a NPR and there is nothing you can do.

[Zeebie (OP)]

Ok, I think I found it!  A ship with a destroyed fire control somehow still had a target, and was mucking everything up.  Unassigning every weapon in the fleet fixes the problem. Thanks for everyone's help.

[Mark Yanning]

I had the same issue... after a while in "5 seconds increment", I went on forum and thanks to this post I managed to find  out that 2 fighters fire control were still on...

 

[GrandNord]

Just in case this happens again to someone else and it's not a fire control that has been kept on (remember the Cease Fire All button in the Miscelaneous tab!!) (I had this happen recently with a star swarm FAC hitting a space pirate slave ship over and over with microwave weapons), here is what you can do:

- Save and quit your game
- Make a backup of the database
- Open the Database with something like SQLite
- Look in FCT_Gamelog and try to identify what is happening each increment to cause the issue. Find the ships resonsible, try to identify them in FCT_ship and FCT_fleet. Write their raceID and the name of the fleet.

You could try to manipulate the database directly to remove the offending fleets but you might introduce errors in the database, what I advise instead is:
- Go in FCT_race and change the NPR value of the race you identified from 1 to 0
- Save the database and open the game, you should be able to change your player race to the one you changed the NPR value of. Careful with spoilers!! (the regular kind of spoilers I mean, not the spoiler races, you'll be able to see everything from the selected race, as if it was the player race)
- Look in the fleet management, find the fleet or fleets with the issue and delete them the normal way.
- Save the game, quit, go change the database back and save it.

This should eliminate eternal 5sec increments and avoid causing any errors or corruption of the database.