MimiNuyasaka

I want to be clear, I'm not saying for orders to HAPPEN while offline; mining while offline, I think, would be a cheap way for you to get money and resources, but I digress. What I mean is simply for ships to remember upon logging in that they were supposed to be patrolling, mining, or whatever, and resume their order. I don't know if it's a bug, an oversight when 2.0 was released, or was simply removed in 2.0 for whatever reason; I've set up four Avorion servers pre-2.0 where this was the default, so I'm not sure if it's just a config setting that was enabled by default but now isn't. I honestly can't fathom why it would be intentionally removed though. It negatively affects the gameplay for this to not happen, since if a friend logs in after I log out, and the sector all my ships are in is attacked by pirates, there's nothing that can be done about it (yes, this has happened). The ships don't remember to defend themselves anymore.

Made an account just to upvote this. There really was no reason to not implement the new orders on top of keeping the old ones; it's not just a matter of not liking change because the new orders have been a boon to my more casual friends and I think that's good for them, but not for me. I also don't know why orders aren't remembered while offline anymore. I know they didn't CONTINUE while offline, but my ships at least remembered to patrol sectors, resume mining, etc when I logged in again.