New ships auto joining existing fleet/group?

How do I get this to stop?  If I have an existing fleet/group in planet gravity well and create a new ship, I don't want it to join existing fleet.  I created a key stroke on ..Toggle auto join fleet... saved game, quit game to desktop and started game. loaded saved game.. the key command is still listed but it has no effect.

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Under fleet commands in the lower right corner of the screen is a button that says "auto-join".  If there is a little arrow chasing itself in a circle, it's activated, right click to toggle the activation.

If you have a fleet sitting in the grav well with your factory, you might try doing the same thing with the fleet.  I'm not sure here, as there is no option to build ships with auto join already turned off, but that might stop units from joining that fleet.  Hope this helps.

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I have found the icon to turn off auto join, when I have the fleet targeted.  Doesn't seem to help, new ships in the same gravity well created by ship factory in same gravity well still join fleet.  I can cancel the fleet and have new ship not join the group, and then remake group into a fleet if I need to.  Not exactly what I had in mind.  But that information helps.  Thanks

 

Reply #3 Top

You bet.

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Quoting sawakaki, reply 1
I'm not sure here, as there is no option to build ships with auto join already turned off, but that might stop units from joining that fleet. 

End of sawakaki's quote

There is no option in game menu but you can modify the game to stop doing it. dont ask me how though. I just know because a mod I run has this turned off. The mod is Distant Stars

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Speaking of fleet, is there a way to make ships join a fleet manually without creating a new fleet containing them? Arranging several fleets get quite tedious when i have to recreate new fleets all the time...