Fleet management

Fleet keys

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I am frustrated with the fleet management functionality.

Suppose I want one of my capital ships to be the fleet flagship, how do I create a fleet with the capital ship as the flagship.

Second question, how do I increase or decrease ships from the fleet?

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Suppose I want one of my capital ships to be the fleet flagship, how do I create a fleet with the capital ship as the flagship.

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The fleet leader is the primary selection (the whitest selection box). You can use tab with a group of ships selected to cycle through the primary target to what you want it to be. However, I find that drag selecting a group of ships almost always leaves a capital as the primary selection.

Second question, how do I increase or decrease ships from the fleet?

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This is a bit more cumbersome. If you want to remove ships, you have to reform the fleet without them. Adding them is easier - if auto-join is on, any ship with a waypoint set to the fleet leader, or stopping in the gravity well with the fleet, will join it, with a few exceptions (scouts, colony ships).
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
To remove ships from a fleet, se;ect the ships you want to remove, click the fleet management button, one of the buttons will have changed to "Leave Fleet"
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Kitkun wins. The only way my ships ever leave the fleet is if they get blown up, so I completely forgot about that button.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
if auto-join is on, any ship with a waypoint set to the fleet leader...will join it
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Of course you can set waypoints to your fleet (as opposed to just some random spot in a gravity well! This will really help my ability to reinforce my fleets. Thanks Annatar, no wonder you have so much karma :)