Little confused on the fleet creation / protection of trade ships

[RockstarCRO]

I bought 5-6 gunships/fighters/corvettes and one big caterpillar mk2. I sent them all to overworld mode then set up a way point trade route for the mk2. i told the gunships/fighters/corvettes (by selecting the attack ships and right clicking on the mk2) to follow the caterpillar mk2. The mk2 kept moving on with its business while my ships disappeared somewhere???

-As it stands, can you only have 1 fleet and other ships just sort of float?

-Where are my other ships? I can't find them in overworld mode or if I click fleet ship button at the bottom.

-Will it be possible to make seperate fleets with a click of a button (i.e select a group of ships + create button = fleet #2)?

[chaosavy]

There's two updates talking about fleet mechanics (including vids) -

https://steamcommunity.com/games/369530/announcements/detail/1440442332189559170

and

https://steamcommunity.com/games/369530/announcements/detail/1442697397891530498

In Overworld mode -

Short version - you can create fleets by clicking the "Fleet Leader" checkbox on a ship (select a ship to see the checkbox on the right hand corner) - then when you left click a ship to select and right click a fleet leader - that will add ship's to it's fleet (it then "dissapears" beause it's grouped into the fleet leader's visual).

You can then see the ship in the fleet either via putting your mouse over the fleet leader or by selecting the fleet leader then clicking the "Fleet Ships" button (in overworld mode).

I'm guessing that your ships are "dissapearing" most likely because they are doing their job protecting the transport. There is a "log" in Overworld mode - that should hopefully tell you what's going on.

Let me know if you have more questions :)

[RockstarCRO]

Ohhhkay - cause when I set another ship to a fleet leader, it took me away from my ship (pilar that I was flying) to an Anubis. Maybe it was a bug or something, but it took me away from flying the Pilar to the Anubis, then I lost the Pilar. I'll try again later today and report back.

Would it be possible to have a menu, like you have for the trade ships, for your war/fleet ships? Like a list that could show fleets first - you double click and you can expand the ships in that fleet? Would be a cool menu option (if it doesn't already exist).

Thank you for answering some of my dumb questions!!! I wrote a long, detailed review for your game if you're interested in reading it. I won't take it personally if you don't cause I know your busy!

[chaosavy]

cause when I set another ship to a fleet leader, it took me away from my ship (pilar that I was flying) to an Anubis

That sounds like you made another ship your "main ship" versus a fleet leader. Making a ship fleet leader is in the "basic" overworld mode - not in the "fleet view" - makes sense?

A menu with combat ships/fleets is a good idea... Technically this already exists on the left hand side as the "contact list" - expand it then click the "owned only" button - but I might expand on that and make a "combat ships" type interface, or add some more functionality to the "fleet" interface.

I looked at the review alread - thanks for the feedback and recommendation! - I try not to comment too much on reviews because - it's ackward in the review section (versus the forums - much easier) and because Steam recently changed it so that comments are disabled by default, it's pretty odd.

[RockstarCRO]

lol you're probably going to laugh... you know what got me? The list of ships / bases on the side was hidden all this time.I thought it was just a part of the screen HUD - random arrow thing there. Things make a lot more sense now.

[chaosavy]

I'm pretty sure that the game has zero random arrow thingies - heh heh

Not enough $$$/time/art to have anything random ;)