Do I benefit from creating fleets?

Hello. So far I've been avoiding creating fleets as it seems to mess up the hyperspeed thing (phase lane), whenever I go through it with a fleet, the first ones to arrive go back again so that they can reform. Is there a way to turn off this "Reforming"? Cause I figure, I should gain something from creating fleets, right? Or what's it do really?

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if you hit "jump as a group", they will wait to jump.  then all of your ships go at once.

Fleets suffer fewer casualties in general, provide a quick button to select a number of ships, give them a formation (tho this is quickly abandoned), and allow for advanced tactics like setting how far apart you allow the ships within to move.

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There are certain fleet behaviors u shoudl be aware of.  One thing, telling a ship to retreat that happens to be in charge of the fleet, will cause whole fleet to retreat.  This is a pain.  I generally tend to fleet ships of the same type.

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Ok, thanks alot guys.

This "Jump as a group" button, where is it located?