Can't Kill Pirate Shipyard

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I had two pirate shipyards relatively close to one another. I sent out a fleet and destroyed one of them. I then proceeded to the second shipyard and tried to destroy it, but I wasn't able to engage it. I right-clicked on my fleet and left clicked on the shipyard but nothing happened, and no I wasn't out of moves. I tried for two or three consecutive turns without success and then gave up. I left a fleet there to pick off the pirate ships as they were created. Is there a reason why I couldn't destroy that second shipyard, or is this a bug?

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Umm, you're supposed to left click on your fleet to select it and right-click on the shipyard to target it, unless you have some funky mouse with the right and left buttons reversed.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Excuse me, my bad, but the problem remains.

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top


I had two pirate shipyards relatively close to one another. I sent out a fleet and destroyed one of them. I then proceeded to the second shipyard and tried to destroy it, but I wasn't able to engage it. I right-clicked on my fleet and left clicked on the shipyard but nothing happened, and no I wasn't out of moves. I tried for two or three consecutive turns without success and then gave up. I left a fleet there to pick off the pirate ships as they were created. Is there a reason why I couldn't destroy that second shipyard, or is this a bug?

 
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I encountered this too - but while testing out some mods, I thought something must be interfering. 

 

Do you happen to have a save of the situation?

 

Edit, turns out I saved a situation where it happens myself: it turns out if I order a ship to attack the pirate shipyard, it works OK, but if I hit cancel I become unable to attack the shipyard anymore.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I've seen this problem. A pirate shipyard was leftover from a defeated AI player, and I could not direct fleets to attack it. However, one of the other AI players came by and attacked and destroyed it later on.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've submitted a support ticket: #GKK-975-48500

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting TurielD, reply 3
it turns out if I order a ship to attack the pirate shipyard, it works OK, but if I hit cancel I become unable to attack the shipyard anymore.
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Being unable to attack after canceling the first try happened to me too. However, I was able to attack after reloading the saved game.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

From the 1.03 patch notes:

 

Fixed bug where if a battle against a shipyard or starbase was aborted, the shipyard/starbase didn't reset its battle information, so it thought it was still in a battle and couldn't be attacked again or interacted with by the owner
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