Turn off guard and then turn it back on?

I was just coming here to ask the exact same question for the exact same reason haha

I'll try that too. They've just been parked in one system forever now.

I think it's bugged right now :/ in the past you needed a Fleet with a Hero for that Quest I think.

Originally posted by -=Sentor=-:

I think it's bugged right now :/ in the past you needed a Fleet with a Hero for that Quest I think.

I think it still requires a hero, even if the text doesn't say it.

Ship need to angar! On homeworld! Quest fine, today comlete!

In my last game, I had a fleet with a hero, and the ship I needed to capture HAD been running around a lot, but finally was stationary.

I took my fleet with hero and had it defend that system and nothing happened. Left it like that for many turns, to no effect.

yeah ive been trying the hero on the fleet and it still dosent work, im makeing a gamestogether acount and posting it as a bug

I had the same problem. Fleet+hero on guard and nothing happen. Save and exit the game to find some tipps. Reload to look again and suddenly the quest was complete. ????

I think to complete said quest you have to have a fleet on guard in a system that the quest ship is going towards, so say the ship is on a system that has 3 starlanes, you need to have three fleets on guard at the systems at the end of the starlanes. Then wait for the quest ship to move to one of the starlanes and then your ship on guard will intercept it.

tried everything: guard on/guard down, with a hero, with every kind of fleet, exiting system and back to it again, save/load. not working (((
playing as craver.
the same thing worked with empire/unfallen just fine.
the difference is that with empire/unfallen ship that I need to intercept was moving, and with craver it is not moving anywhere.

is there still no solution?

I've successfully completed a couple different "intercept" missions since the free weekend. From my observations, it seems to require you to wait for the target ship to move, and then have your own ships guarding a system when it arrives there. Because you have to be at the system first, it's impossible to achieve while the target ship remains stationary, and it can take several turns of waiting before it finally moves.

Not very well-designed, IMO, but it does make sense with the game mechanics - guard only has an effect on ships as they enter the guarded system, so that's the only moment when you can "intercept" them.

yes, you right about that. finally it decided to move after about 30 idle turns and quest counted finished right away.
I'm playng on "fast" world setting, so 30 turns are about one third of whole playthrough.

This quest calls for fix.. I've been orbiting the system like eternity and then I've noticed than stronger armada is coming, so i rather put the fleet in dock. The second round it said the other civ completed the quest.

Intercept quests require the ship in question to move into a ship you have in the guard stance.

This is made difficult by the fact that after an end turn the AI moves ships before you do... so you can't move and guard real quick (most of the time anyway).

As previously stated the ship cannot be in the same system where you have the ship guarding on the turn where it appears (meaning it has to move away and then move back).

Originally posted by Trifler:

Originally posted by -=Sentor=-:

I think it's bugged right now :/ in the past you needed a Fleet with a Hero for that Quest I think.

I think it still requires a hero, even if the text doesn't say it.

It is May 2025 (good luck to future us). This is still true. You need hero. It still doesn't tell you that in the quest.