[0.981 bug] Explore never switches off.

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One more bug I noticed from my last game (or perhaps just a too subtle UI) but once a unit has been set to explore it can never be switched off again. I noticed the only way to stop a unit exploring (temporarily - read on) was to get it into a group of units that had never been told to explore, but if I ever took it out of the army, off it would go on its own merry way once more, cheerfully ignoring my commands. Placing the unit on GUARD also could not prevent the explore behaviour conquering all... I am guessing this is a bug :grin:

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yea, it's funny, once you set them to explore, they are always exploring until you hit "explore" again to turn it off.  You could move them manually for 10 turns, set them to guard, but as soon as you look away, they are off exploring again.  But clicking explore a second time usually turns it off.  

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Ah, it is not just me then. I think that if you manually set a destination explore should toggle off.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

That would be nice.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I also think that if the unit is on explore that something should be visibly toggled.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

This problem still exists in 1.0.  Very annoying.  Just lost my units to it.

- There needs to be a visual marker on the unit and the icon in the unit list to show they are in "explore" mode.

- Any action on the players part needs to cancel explore.

- There needs to be a "Cancel Orders" button on the unit to also cancel any prior commands.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

This issue still exists in 1.20

Any chance of an improvement to messaging or something? (It is very annoying)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

I believe it still exists.  Needs to be a toggle to turn it off.

 

This bug also existed in GCII.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

I still agree the autoexplore button needs work, at best it takes me the whole units turn to turn off (clicking explore many many times until I am sure it is off).

I wonder how hard it would be to implement... O_o
Until that, meaby I should ask Heavenfall for a mod that removes the explore button and hotkey...
Then again, I can't reaaaally complain about this until my game can run smoothly again :)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Lord, reply 1
Yea, it's funny, once you set them to explore, they are always exploring until you hit "explore" again to turn it off.  You could move them manually for 10 turns, set them to guard, but as soon as you look away, they are off exploring again.  But clicking explore a second time usually turns it off.  
End of Lord's quote

Yep this ^ is the way to turn off explore. I thought everybody knew that.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting willie, reply 10

Quoting Lord Xia, reply 1Yea, it's funny, once you set them to explore, they are always exploring until you hit "explore" again to turn it off.  You could move them manually for 10 turns, set them to guard, but as soon as you look away, they are off exploring again.  But clicking explore a second time usually turns it off.  


Yep this ^ is the way to turn off explore. I thought everybody knew that.
End of willie's quote

The bigger issue is that you can't tell at all whether they are in explore mode or not.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting AlienFromBeyond, reply 10
The bigger issue is that you can't tell at all whether they are in explore mode or not.
End of AlienFromBeyond's quote

Which is basically also the only thing I would have fixed, because its easy to turn off once you know whether its on or off, since clicking once will then just tell you "Autoexplore, off". Instead of having to guess ;)

Sincerely
~ Kongdej