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I attacked enemy planet (with only defense platforms installed) with fleet of 3 task forces:
- few ships on strategy: short range
- few ships on strategy: optimal range
- 1 frigate with troops on strategy: Capture the planet

What happened:
1) all battleships run away into the border - no damage during battle - at the report all destroyed!
2) single frigate came to the planet and was shoot down
What the heck has just happened?

Can someone please tell me:
- what and why happened?
- how can I create a attack force that my battleships are attacking any defenders on the planet (ships, platforms etc) and frigates drop troops (the best: safe - after all defenders are killed).

I'm trying to change simultaneous transit in the empire options window, I highlight the word false, and click on toggle setting. It changes to true, but it wont keep this "true" value, is there a save button I'm not seeing? or is this a value that's set in a data file somewhere?

I've also read elsewhere that drones automatcally have this set to true. Is this true?

I d/led the demo of SE5 and was disapointed when I found anything beyond the system screen so slow that the game was not useable. AND THEN when I quit the game my screen locked up and ended up having to reboot

Not to worry, I thought, I had the full game comming and it surelly would be better. AND THEN when I received the game... nothing was different from the demo including having to reboot to recover from a locked up screen after quitting the screen.

I d/led the 1.74 patch and installed it. SAME, SAME, and SAME!

I have tried dropping my graphics settings and it didn't help. I don't know of anything else I can do.