Mercenary Fleets - What Were You Doing?

  • IncendiArry
    IncendiArry
    Potential Threat
    Joined Feb 2013 Posts: 31
    Now they are missing without launching!!!  What the hell are these low education coders doing?
  • skip.j.weinreich
    skip.j.weinreich
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Mar 2013 Posts: 113
    My merc fleets have been vanishing 1 aday for the last 3 days. I'm not even online when it happens. and not receiving anything from friends. This really sucks. It's bad enough I'm a level 51 and get hit by level 60 and 70 bases every day and no real forsaken tech can hold them out. no chance in this game anymore unless you spend alot on coins.
  • kevin.smith.5891
    kevin.smith.5891
    Greenhorn
    Joined Mar 2013 Posts: 5
    i have posted about merc fleets before, 2 weeks ago my alliance jumped to sector 476 and thought id leave the gifts and they started mounting up i posted a pic on alliance page of my delight of havin 2 merc fleets and 2 gifts. never before have they built up past 1 lol and then they dissapear if i dont use them straight away. after i posted the pic went back on to see one merc fleet had gone and the timer was on, went back to alliance page to spread my disbelife and then i come on for the raid and the others gone. i do believe this problem needs sorting as these fleets can gather quite a few points for me and i see pics on other pages of people moaning that they had 72 mercs now they have 71
  • Beware_of_Pets
    Beware_of_Pets
    Potential Threat
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 81
    Kevin this post was started a year and a half ago and it is still going...what does that tell you? I just gave up.
    Signed,
    Beware_of_Pets
  • Harrier 1963
    Harrier 1963
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Feb 2012 Posts: 115
    Although I consider Merc fleets to be almost useless, it is nevertheless bloody annoying when, on the rare occasion that I do want to use one, Im told I cant for another 11 hours or so. I should have in excess of 30 fleets in my collection, but as they seem to self launch periodically, I am surprised I have any at all. It has been going on for more than a year now, so either KE doesn't know why it happens, therefore, how to fix it, OR they cant be arsed. I just wish KE were as quick to fix this sort of thing as they are to promote another raid, or screwing with the game play that doesn't need fixing
    Harrier

    Won: Goliath, BS, SC, BC, BCx, Barracuda, Thresher, Triton, DNx, Mercury, HHA, HHB, Stingray, Vindicator, Berserker and a load of other crappy ships that will never be built. (unless we get a refit dock!!)


    Tell you what, you auto my base, and I wont control my defenders.


    Lvl 67 Sector 318
  • nathan.neogroup
    nathan.neogroup
    Greenhorn
    Joined Feb 2013 Posts: 3
    I dont bother launching mercs anmore because they are too slow with too little fire power.  We should be able to fit them with whatever blueprints we have available to us.  Mercs are obsolete
  • robertg
    robertg
    Skilled Warrior
    Joined Nov 2011 Posts: 564
    can we close thsi threat? we know what is causing it (you send a lot of friends a merc at the same time, the first one who launches one will trigger the rest of this bunch to launch too)
    kixeye knows this but refuges to spend time to fix it. ergo close the **** threat and remove the mercs from the game
  • Drakkenfyre
    Drakkenfyre
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jul 2012 Posts: 1
    Why close the thread? We can still discuss it, can't we? And if you are tired of hearing about it, perhaps don't read it.

    My mercs don't go missing (thank goodness, because my husband never has any, despite and because of never launching them). I have 44 right now because the game just keeps telling me that I can only launch them every 12 hours, despite having not launched one in days. And when I try to launch one, it tells me I have 11:59 left until I can launch one. But I don't have one outside.

    Very strange. So I have lots, they don't disappear, but I have a hard time being able to launch them.
  • Trogar
    Trogar
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Oct 2011 Posts: 13,085
    Here we go again... What was I doing? Driving home from work. And apparently I launched it while driving... Two days in a row.
  • garfield1952
    garfield1952
    Greenhorn
    Joined Feb 2013 Posts: 20
    I can only launch 1 merc fleet every 24 hrs and not every 12 hrs like it said, and it has been like that for a few weeks
    Here is a shot of what i saw this morning
    and some times i launch a merc fleet at night for protection while i sleep and in the morning it is gone and i have not been hit so e=where do they go

  • Christy Richardson
    Christy Richardson
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jul 2012 Posts: 7
    The mercs seem to be randomly dispensing them selves. Every time i go and try to get one it has  timer on it. first time ran out in about 3 hrs this time i have to wait 8 hrs. I would like to use it but I cant seem to get with its timing. Please fix this, for the record it does it when I am not on.
  • RCthePoet
    RCthePoet
    Potential Threat
    Joined Jan 2012 Posts: 73
    I stop playing for 4 months.  During that time I collected about 60 resource crates, and only 24 merc fleets.  I know that not everyone will send me a merc and a crate, but usually I get one of each per day.  There does not seem to be a pattern, and I do not have to do anything for the merc fleets to disappear, including logging in.  If I don't use a merc fleet, it takes it from me.
  • YZFR1
    YZFR1
    Potential Threat
    Joined Jan 2013 Posts: 89
    Over my time of playing.I am wondering if when a rocket is used it trigger's the launch of a merc fleet,though there is never one shown on the map.Only due to the location of the merc tab in base and the rocket launch in battle.Knowing how the game sometime's lag's on ordered task's..Probably mile's off,but just a thought.
    Be-careful  of  what  you  SOW, for  FEAR  of what you shall  REAP


  • iwrk4dedpr
    iwrk4dedpr
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 895
    RCthePoet said:
    I stop playing for 4 months.  During that time I collected about 60 resource crates, and only 24 merc fleets.  I know that not everyone will send me a merc and a crate, but usually I get one of each per day.  There does not seem to be a pattern, and I do not have to do anything for the merc fleets to disappear, including logging in.  If I don't use a merc fleet, it takes it from me.
    I've been at the same count of resource crates for 3 months now.  Right at 400 or so.  I get notifications in FB that many were sent ... but nothing tallys in the base.  Welcome to the gift that is given but never received.
  • Mittens-WP
    Mittens-WP
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Jul 2013 Posts: 167
    Screw problems with the **** Mercs!!!!!!!!!   Kixeye you have more serious problems going on!!!!!!   How about fixing the sideways fleet issue first and foremost. Because if that persists during raid it is gonna suck for us players and possibly for you as well with a crapload of tickets being sent in. So screw the Mercs. Fix the main problems first.  This has been going for over a **** week. Honestly, I normally am happy with you guys fixing problems fast, but come on. This is getting tiring. Fix it.
  • Ewan Borthwick
    Ewan Borthwick
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 126
    Not really fussed about auto launching mercs, how many actually use these underpowered fleets now, they do need a big update however to make them consistent with the tech some high level players have.

    They're handy for the low levels, that is about all.
  • iwrk4dedpr
    iwrk4dedpr
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 895
    Not really fussed about auto launching mercs, how many actually use these underpowered fleets now, they do need a big update however to make them consistent with the tech some high level players have.

    They're handy for the low levels, that is about all.

    Even when at a low level never found them to be useful.  
    Not really fussed about auto launching mercs, how many actually use these underpowered fleets now, they do need a big update however to make them consistent with the tech some high level players have.

    They're handy for the low levels, that is about all.

  • moob 18
    moob 18
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jun 2013 Posts: 1
    send me merc
  • David016083
    David016083
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jun 2013 Posts: 12
    i log on and see that i have a mercenary fleet. if i dont launch it right then, the mercenary fleet disappears and this has happened many times. ive lost like 20 mercenary fleets to this

  • fubar1971
    fubar1971
    Skilled Warrior
    Joined Nov 2011 Posts: 487
    edited 25 Jul 2013, 5:08PM
    As of this morning the Merc Fleets are still auto-launching and disappearing. i am getting very tired of it. haven't used one in over 2 weeks yet i still have 10:29 before i can launch one. this problem has been around forever, come-on and fix this please. submitting a ticket don't do a **** thing. this issue has been going on for almost 2 years now. getting sick of it. i have probably lost over 100 fleets to it. while i realize they are supposed to be free, this is getting to be stupidly ridiculous!
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  • Neder111
    Neder111
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Aug 2012 Posts: 224
    mercenary fleet are they still existing  lol  mine are gone  and if i get one there is always a clock ticking down and sending tickets in  does not work 

    mercs disapear  and  always there is a clock  saying i can use a merc within 12 hours i did have 2 merc fleets before the raid did started and now i got 0,0000  
     have send in many tickets   but how it looks kix cant handle  our solve this problem because its there for months now  and send in a ticket and you never hear anything anymore of it

  • les.ludgrove
    les.ludgrove
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jun 2013 Posts: 6
    i get loads of mercenary fleets sent to me they just keep disappearing 1 min ive got 2 or 3 next 0 and when i do go to use them it says i cant for 12 hours even when i havnt used one for ages then i come back and thats gone as well 
  • adrian.dobranis
    adrian.dobranis
    Greenhorn
    Joined Mar 2013 Posts: 2
    how can I go where I want and not where we friends? .... why the relocation did not appear all my friends?
  • zeusIII
    zeusIII
    Skilled Warrior
    Joined May 2013 Posts: 495
    Had a few merc base guarding flts vanish during the raid. My main issue is the weapons build of merc fleets. Supposedly representative of what you have available. I mean... ff's with hydra rockets? I havent built a ship with them in prolly a year. Hydras are useless much past lvl 30 or so. Damage yes but no range. I just dont build ships with them any more. 
  • OCTOBERS RUST
    OCTOBERS RUST
    Skilled Warrior
    Joined Nov 2011 Posts: 459
    at my lvl mercs are worthless...
    Player ID: 2163

  • Peter_H4669
    Peter_H4669
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Feb 2013 Posts: 181
    I'm getting tired of getting a mercenary fleet, only to be told I can only deploy one every 12 hours (with a countdown). Problem is I hadn't even used it, so why is there a countdown until I can use the next one? Especially when its the only MF that I have at the time.
  • UberFoX360
    UberFoX360
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Oct 2011 Posts: 712
    how do i un-subscribe from this post i have given up on merc fleets now there useless'
  • Riquerta
    Riquerta
    Greenhorn
    Joined Mar 2013 Posts: 5
    like the very first response i sue them mainly for op killing and ever day or time when i log back on the availability of them goes down by one, i wish this was fixed already....
  • BigBry
    BigBry
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Jan 2012 Posts: 256
    This has never worked correctly...  This thread is so old it was opened by the old and moldy Swag, isn't about time we just accept that there are parts of this game that will never work right and close this thread down?
    "Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding... And I don't even own a tv!"(Flagpole Sitter by Harvey Danger)

    If I sound like I give a **** about your opinion, I apologize for giving you the wrong impression...

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  • iwrk4dedpr
    iwrk4dedpr
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 895
    Honestly, they should be honest.  

    Remove it 
    or
    Fix it
    or
    Tell us, "It don't generate coins for us so why should we care about it?"    At least that would be honest.
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