Planets automatically launching fighters and sending them to a local location.

Captain Kwok, you can automatically create ships on a planet and have them automatically move to waypoints? I would love to know how.

So the auto launch of units only works in a simultaneous game... what is the difference between simultaneous and turn based if I'm a single player on a single machine? I appreciate all the help.

Thanks Captain Kwok. I'll try this tonight.

Looks like I'll have to have a freighter collect up fighters per system. It would be nice to have them auto directed.

I figured out how I can get my fighters to auto-launch in turn base mode. It's tricky but appears to work. Just have a ship in orbit of the planet and select both "the planet" and "the ship" in orbit and order them to both a space. The planet won't move of coarse (only the ship will), but it sets the planet right-click mouse options to be the same as a ship with "order" options listed. For programmers out there, it looks like they both inherit from the same base class, and thus the functionality. So now you can set the orders to launch units automatically on the planet. I'm sill working out the update-queues of fighters in this situation. This could eliminate the waste of "no storage available" on the planet for items that can be launched into orbit.

Ok to add to the above comment, you must make sure you remove the move planet to orders from the planet order list (otherwise it will fail). So with this all fighters produced on the planet will automatically be launched into orbit. This is killer!