Patrolling could be better

[AquilesHeroe]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 5 march 2022
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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when patrolling, units dont patrol without atacking, they stop when they see a unit to atack them, and after destroying or killing it , then it patrols again. This makes that patrolling is not useless, because we just want to see if an enemy is not building any dock on the coast, i dont want to kill that trade post.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. click on
   
   (you have to click, if you press shift-z doesnt work, the boot icon doesnt appear on screen, at least for me, im not sure why)
2. click on the zone you want to patrol as video show
3. find that instead of keep going to the ordered zone the unit decides to attack the first unit it finds
4. after killling the unit it keeps patrolling the area

EXPECTED RESULT

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i think patrol is to make units walk from one place to other place without atacking units they find, just to have a view of the zone, if the unit is atacked, then we click on minimap to decide if it keeps patrolling ot atacks the enemy.

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• Age of Empires III Definitive Edition 2022.03.05 - 15.15.39.06 when patrolling it attacks instead of just patrolling

[EaglemutOP]

I think this is how patrol is supposed to work, it is the same in other Age games. So, not a bug.

[Moonshadow7475]

This is how patrolling works in literary every RTS i ever played.

[MagicFall681447]

make the ship patrol a bit away from the coast then

[DavidPPFS]

I think that adding a “no attack” stance would suffice. But I dunno if they really want to add that.

[Troteck]

The only solution for your concern is to press with the shift key to carry out your patrols manually without attack

[AquilesHeroe]

thats not a solution, is a burden, and an innefective one. the ship/horse would attack what is attacking it, instead of keep running