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"Set home" button - 4/17/2010 12:10:59 AM

Joubarbe

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Hi,

Is the "set home" button used to automatically troop or refuel fleets assigned ?
This lead me to another question : how do YOU do to load your ships with troops ? Do I really need to select all my ships manually and select "load troop to the nearest..." ?

EDIT : and what the computer does when I automate my fleets ? I can't even understand, I have ships everywhere, doing nothing... Manual control seems to be the only way.

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RE: "Set home" button - 4/17/2010 12:54:51 AM

Sliverine

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the troop loading has to be done manually for now i.e. ship by ship. having a fleet command to load up troops for all ships in the fleet is currently one of the suggestions that the devs are working on (i hope!)

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RE: "Set home" button - 4/17/2010 1:10:00 AM

Erik Rutins

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Note that another option is that if you have your fleet automated and near your home planet, it should automatically load troops and fuel. But yes, we have a fleet-wide load troops command on our to do list.

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RE: "Set home" button - 4/17/2010 1:22:54 AM

Joubarbe

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I feel that developers have not really anticipate manual control of player's fleets. But after 20 years of game, and 5 simultaneous wars, automated fleets are unmanageable. But yeah, I'll wait for the update :)

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RE: "Set home" button - 4/17/2010 1:26:51 AM

Sliverine

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yea...not to mention the uber clutter of the starmap. i lost control due to a visual inability to locate my assets rather then a lack of strategy or management. i was in fact taking on 3 wars on my own (with comps about as big as i am) and the best thing is, the wars started due to the comp getting pissed at my AI trespassing their systems and trampling all over their turf for god-knows-what reason...

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