Is it just me or is the Sail Away command to companions broken?
I issue this order to my cargo ships so they would avoid confrontation and just hopefully head in the opposite direction of the enemy.
But I find this order to be primarily ineffective. I think it has something to do with range. I issue this order and I watch my companion circling around an enemy to fire broadsides at it- that's not what I call sailing away! I think perhaps there is a check that if the enemy is close enough the captain ignores your command and just battles anyway - what's your experience with this?
Sometimes I issue the order and they do in fact sail away but it seems the times it works is when that ship was in safety anyway, it wasn't in danger because it was already far enough away.
I issue this order to my cargo ships so they would avoid confrontation and just hopefully head in the opposite direction of the enemy.
But I find this order to be primarily ineffective. I think it has something to do with range. I issue this order and I watch my companion circling around an enemy to fire broadsides at it- that's not what I call sailing away! I think perhaps there is a check that if the enemy is close enough the captain ignores your command and just battles anyway - what's your experience with this?
Sometimes I issue the order and they do in fact sail away but it seems the times it works is when that ship was in safety anyway, it wasn't in danger because it was already far enough away.