Auto-Retreat, what does it do?

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Can someone tell me what the auto-retreat option on ships actually does? I never noticed any effect, there is not a word about it in the manual, and there is nothing about what it does in the forums either.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It... auto-retreats?

My guess is it returns your ships to your nearest planet. Try it out and report back here.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My guess is it returns your ships to your nearest planet. Try it out and report back here


Nope. Nor does it retreat them from combat.

My latest suspiciion is that it makes exploring ships stay out of other races territory or away from enemy ships or something, but I haven't tested it yet.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It seems I can't even enable it anymore in 1.1, it goes right back off. At least in 1.0X it showed 'Auto Retreat' under the ship on the map. Didn't do anything else either though.