I don't really see how this would make sense as a toggle.

Other things are already toggles. Fleet engagement range? Auto-casts? Those are toggles and they're behaviours. That makes sense. But you click on a ships to attack them, that's an action. This is a modifier to that action. A toggle would what, put you in a mode where every ship click did this by default and now you have to turn it off or use a different hotkey to target a specific ship?Why would you want that? You'd just be making the UI more cumbersome. 

Some things are suited to toggles, others are not. It's a good thing to consider as there could very well be cases where they've not made the best choice between what should be behaviour toggle vs a command modifier, but this very much does not seem like an example of that.

Edit: Actually, I'll revise that slightly. More broadly speaking, it's absolutely reasonable to have toggles for fleet firing behaviours, but such a thing would be in addition to a hotkey to do something specific. The same way the fleets jumping as a group vs individually is a behaviour toggle, but you should be able to override it when issuing a move command (does ctril+right-click still do this? Am I remembering that correctly from Sins 1?)

Some are and some aren't - its based on feedback. For example the initial Sins2 method of 'group jump' was to hold control when using the movement order. It was switched back to the Sins1 toggle style. Although, ironically we started getting requests to go back to it just today lol.

It's still kinda wonky where ships occasionally jump on their own, even when they are told to fly in a group. Telling the fleet to stop, then jump sometimes fixes it but not always. This problem was much worse in larger fleets in the first Sins and nothing I knew of could fix it. At least it's better now, but it is kind of annoying when a few of your ships jump without authorization then die the moment they arrive. 

I know it's a toggle, what I'm trying to confirm is if there's hotkey like Sins 1 to override the toggle when ordering the move. Will confirm it tonight either way, but should be a thing in any case. 

Thanks Norska, I didn't realize I could look at the toggle. 🙄

Something else I would add for the devs. If you guys are worried about giving control to players through complex order options being something that is too easy to beat the AI with in the early game. Perhaps lock more advanced orders behind fleet training that is only available to formed fleets and the fleet in question must go back and attend training at a facility for before those orders are unlocked. You could have individual fleets only trained with specific commands and others trained in two or three. Fleet experience levels would have to be reached first of course. Perhaps alternatively a reason for the ceilo command corvette to be reintroduced?

That's amazing. Thank you to the developers at Stardock for working hard at this game. I'm looking very much forward to buying it when it comes out on Steam