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Baleur -> Various questions, designs refit priority & fleet stances. (4/13/2012 1:16:38 AM)
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Well, i remember reading somewhere in the latest beta patches about how fleet stances were now rehashed, when the fleet itself is automated or not they had various effects.
I can not for the life of me find that again! Where was that?
It was something about how if the fleet or ships are automated, the fleet stance will change, but if the fleet or ships were not automated, the fleet stances will stick to whatever you selected, but the ships will still be effectively "automated" within that general order..... ? Yeah, you can see i really need to read up on that one again before i continue my current game that's about to go to hell [:D]
I just made a few new fleets (turned off automatic fleet formation), i want my newly formed fleet to automatically give themselves stances, defend here or there. But they just sat there despite being fully automated. If war breaks out, will they still sit idle? I want them to automate their stances, choose attack targets and such. But i do not want the fleet formation to be automated.
Secondly, designs, i read about this in the latest beta patches too with the new refit/upgrade mechanics, but it still confuses me..
I tried it last night, i made a manual defensive base design (basically a tiny ion cannon battery), and tried faffing with the refit/auto-upgrade settings to get what i wanted, but it never worked.
I essentially wanted the game to keep automatically upgrading all normal defensive bases (DFB-5 to DFB-6 etc), while ONLY using my manual design when i specifically order them to be built. Now, this worked half-half.
1. My own ion batteries wanted to refit/upgrade into DFB-6, which made me pull my hair out (no way to cancel, had to remove them and build again.)
2. After upgrading my design so it became the latest, the "ai-built" DFB-6 were now retrofitting to my ion battery design!!
How on Char do i have my manual designs only upgrade/refit into subsequent advanced versions of the same design, not into an entirely different design? And how do i prevent the automatic designs from upgrading/refitting into my manual designs?? I very much want to keep using the handy "New tech, refit all ships and bases?" popup.
I know you can turn it off for design subtypes such as the defensive bases, but then the ai-built designs DFB-5 etc will also not upgrade, right?
Thanks. [&o]
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