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Bentley264 -> Fleet/Design trick to help with micromanagement (12/23/2011 2:13:18 AM)
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First with designs, save your designs at the beginning of the game. Turn design off, and never turn it on again. When it is time to upgrade to a new type of an old component, simply select the affected ships (or all of them - easy enough), and click the manual upgrade. I usually pick standard flight bays, since they never really become obsolete. I put fighter bays on most of my ships and bases.
Once you are designing your own ships, simply pick which ones you will want in your fleets - usually destroyers, carriers, transports, capital ships. Make sure all the ships you will be using have at least one troop component. Now, make a bunch of ships. Hit F11 and select troop carriers as your filter. You can easily make a large fleet for invasion (include transports), or defense - skip the transports for this one. I then refer you to the fleet management tips by Gelatinous Cube.
If you are at war, make an overwhelming invasion fleet, load troops, and target an important planet. I use F12 to also rename the fleets (such as 3rd western defenders, or 5th heavy invaders), so I will know how to use it later. I try to spread out the home bases for fleets, but I always want a large defensive fleet at the capital, plus an invasion fleet to load troops from the capital.
Just some thoughts, feel free to contribute your own ideas.
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