Possible fleet bug

- Yep. This is a new bug.
- I think you can, I can't see why you couldn't do that...

You can't retrofit a ship in a fleet.

The removing all ships from a fleet crash is a recently reported bug.

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What happens if the fleet is destroyed completely in combat?

I've noticed that when the AI creates a fleet, the Task Force Attack and Defence Strategies is always set to Optimal Firing Range, and Attack and Defence Formation is set to Arrowhead, No matter what is setup in the script file.. Does anyone know a way around this..

I think I reported that one some time ago. It gets completely ignored for some reason. But other settings work ok. Anyway, it's almost always better for ships to break formation and follow their design type strategy instead.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Which is sad when you think of it. Well made fleets and task forces should most of the time be more effective than masses of independent ships.

But we'll have time to fully experiment with fleets and task forces when 1.46 gets released...

And here I was thinking I was being a little slow. I can't remember all the pertubations I've done in an attempt to get my fleets to form with my requirements. I have managed to spread out the ships into different task forces but I never could get the formations and strategies I wanted unless I go to each fleet and set them the way I did in the script. Which is just double work for me and irritating as heck.

Directive 721: Cover your own a$$ first. Solo

how do you set it up so a fleet automatically breaks formation and follow its design strategies

Look at the different strategies available...

Setting "Break formation immediately" to "TRUE" will do the trick.

Formations use the ship strats with the same corrusponding name to determine movement behavior.

My opinion is that formations are too loosely grouped at present, and don't provide sufficient PD and weapon overlap. They need to be tighter.

In spite of this, the battles are just too sloppy when formations aren't used at all. I can't take it.