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Aeson -> RE: what do these circles mean? (6/11/2014 8:06:02 PM)
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Yes, they are fleet postures, I can turn them off with that button, now I've found it.
What I don't understand is why. I haven't set any postures, so it must be to do with the AI, and there are no fleets in either of these systems. One of them has a few escorts running around and the other has no military ships at all in it.
If the AI is given control of fleet management, then the AI will assign home bases and postures as it sees fit. At least one fleet has been assigned a home base in Tafuueri, and at least one more has been assigned a home base in Dhayu, and at least one fleet based in each system has been assigned to defensive posture with an engagement radius of "nearby systems." Fleets which are based in a system will not necessarily remain in that systems; possible reasons for their nonpresence are refuel/repair/retrofit orders that take them out of their assigned area of operations, you the player issuing orders to the fleet that send them elsewhere without changing the home base and fleet posture, recent assignment to that duty station which hasn't allowed the fleet enough time to arrive on station yet, the ships of the fleet(s) assigned to that duty station have not yet been commissioned (the ships are still under construction), or the fleet may be responding to a threat in another system covered by their area of operations (shown by the blue circle), and there may be one or two other reasons that I'm forgetting at the moment. In your case, it does not appear that either fleet is within its assigned area of operations.
If you want to determine which of your fleets have been assigned to these areas, you should open the Fleets menu (the menu button that looks like three ships at the top of the screen, not the list you have open in the screenshot) and look for fleets with a home base in the system at the center of the blue circle (in your case, either Dhayu or Tafuueri; the computer typically assigns colonies as fleet home bases, so you may want to check the names of the colonies in the two systems before searching your fleets list). Once you've found fleets assigned a home base within that system, you can check their postures and engagement ranges by selecting the fleet from within the fleets screen, and this will allow you to tell if the fleet is in aggressive (sword icon) or defensive (shield icon) stance, and the engagement range is indicated by another icon in the same area, which looks like a yellow dot that should have a dashed ring around it (since your engagement range setting is 'nearby systems;' the ring will also be there for system-wide and sector-wide engagement range but the radius of the ring will be different, while target-only lacks a ring and engage-anywhere has a ring of outward-pointing arrows). Based on the fleet activities listed in the screenshot, I would guess that the two fleets that are creating these blue circles are the Home Fleet and the 16th Strike Force, as both fleets are in defensive posture whereas none of the other fleets are. Since the 16th is automated, it should eventually turn up in whichever of the two systems contains its home base, while the Home Fleet will remain wherever it currently sits unless something gives it orders.
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