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Registered: August 2003 Location: Hiding from Meklar
This is interesting because there are specific cases where a defender would innocently want to set default orders to attack a specific player - for example with the intention of having a starbase target a particular players ships to avoid having to work through multiple players' chaff. As I understand it, such orders wouldn't work as the defending forces should target every player that has orders to attack them. But it still gives an explanation of why a player might try such orders.
In the context of this bug it seems very wise to prohibit such orders