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Battle commands in ECM

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Hello there,

I started using ECM recently and encountered the situation that I can't choose "select ship" to give a single ship orders in battle. If I select a ship the orders available are: 1. Evade. 2. Retreat. 3. Open hailing frequencies. 4. Hold position.
(I play the Fed and have tried it with fast attack as well as with command ships.)

Can I change this issue? Thats's not really efficient in battles.

Thank you in advance!
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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it would require a simple hex edit

trek.exe at 0xA5B28 change 75 to EB

if you are using All in One with tools installed this can be done using QD's patcher
ECM patches has a patch named;
"proper support "cloak, withdraw & hold" commands in tactical combat disable the command ship solo-targeting restriction"
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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Thank you, Thunderchero.
I found the patch. Unfortunately I couldn't try it out yet because there is some problem with trex.exe stopping to work during the game.
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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Tvrelnec wrote:Thank you, Thunderchero.
I found the patch. Unfortunately I couldn't try it out yet because there is some problem with trex.exe stopping to work during the game.
applying that patch should not cause any crash. I doubt if it would even effect saved games.

so not sure what went wrong for your attempt.

note after patching with "proper support "cloak, withdraw & hold" commands in tactical combat disable the command ship solo-targeting restriction"

the "proper support "cloak, withdraw & hold" commands in tactical combat + the broken command ability" patch will show red, this would be normal since you are editing this patch.
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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The crash log says the destination/origin of a trade route is the reason for the problem.
But I will anyway check whether I applied that patch correctly.
Thank you for all your help!
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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Can I find this "command ship solo-targeting restriction" as a patch?

There is an exlcamation mark next to the patch "General galaxy generation settings". Is this ok? Or does this cause problems?
As far as I remember it already was there when I tried the Botf patcher the first time.
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it will be all the way at the bottom of list not highlighted (not green) the line will read
proper support "cloak, withdraw & hold" commands in tactical combat disable the command ship solo-targeting restriction
select it so it turns purple
click install button, (line will turn yellow)
then click apply
then close qd's patcher and test
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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Thank you. You make this idiot proof.

Unfortunately trex.exe still crashes. The crash report says the following:

ST:BOF Mon Jan 23 21:44:12 2017

Version Under Test: 72
File: ..\..\source\game\solarapi.c, Line: 2792, System is not dest or source of trade route
Initialize State: 31
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1485032429
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2
Turn State: 20
Turn Number: 178
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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was this error there before editing? if so save was already corrupt.

new game should be fine.
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Re: Battle commands in ECM

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It appeared a few turns after editing.
But it doesn't sound like this correlates. I'll try a new game.
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