Assembling Fleets in Simultaneous Turns |
Playing v1.35 with Balance Mod 1.08.
I'm playing my first game with simultaneous turns and I don't know how to assemble fleets on the fly. Right-clicking tells me that "J" should "Join Fleet" but it doesn't seem to work. So I have to move the ships together on one turn, then fleet them the next. Then if one of my ships retreats out of a battle, I have to re-assemble the fleet. Can I do better?
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Glockgemini has it about right? Thats what I would do?
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That's too bad. It sure cramps your style, compared to the single-player game, when you can't build ships, fleet them the same turn, and attack. I wonder why the "J" command doesn't work.
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Guess you just have to use the buttons in the corner to manually add the ships you want to the fleet. That works just fine in simul games.
~Myrath
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If you're referring to the Fleet Transfer button (middle row, far right), that works just like hitting "F". You can join a fleet if you are on the same square as it, but you can't meet up with a ship mid-turn and move to assault a planet. You also can't take ships that retreated from a battle, like carriers, and have them re-join the fleet the same turn.
I guess that explains why the "J" key doesn't work -- they never made a button for "join fleet," so they probably forgot to code it. Where would be the best place to ask for putting that function in a future patch?
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Never mind -- I just found the issues forum on my own.
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Sucks, don't it.
Best suggestion I can make to keep from loosing travel time is to move as far as the shortest ship will go and fleet up there and keep going.