Fleet managment

[Psycho Dad]

Hello!

Not sure if this has been mentioned unless i just overlooked a post.

Is the fleet management going to be worked on in order to assign MINING and TRADE fleets?

I assign multiple mining ships to a fleet however the subordinates just "protect" and there isn't a option to have them either reflect the commanders commands OR to go out to mine/trade. Thanks for listening!

P.S Im not sure if this next question pertaining to trade/miners was intentional or not.
Ive noticed there is no range to trade or sell for pilots below 3 stars. Also the range when you have 3+ stars seems very limited.

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by tourist:

Get in the pilot's seat of the wing commander and then go to the behavior assignments for the subordinates. From the pilot's seat, the player can have sector automine assigned for a subordinate mining vehicle.

Trade should work same with subordinates from the pilot's seat.

This does not work as soon as i get up from pilots seat the subordinate goes back to ESCORT status. Also the range to sell wares is still quite limited.

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by tourist:

Holy moly I didn't realize it defaulted back to NPC pilot.

There is another option but I'm not sure how its is going to work.

You can enable the chat window and enter

 /lettherebewings 

to enable advanced behaviors.

From there, the default escort remains but you can now queue up additional orders for subordinates on top of that (not in the wing command pilot seat).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1775659986

I didn't take the time to see if it will go from automine to trade wares, the miners might fill up with cargo and sit there until ordered to trade.

Might be more trade options as far as setting the trade range.

Anyone know if the trade mule mod increases trade ranges?

I appreciate the help :) however im not as computer savy as most of the people on here probably I know enough to protect my computer and install and do minor programming type stuff other then that....its a crap shot. I just wish they would fix the thing that should have been resloved by now fleet management is one of those that should have been fixed early as it's a important part of the game IMO.

[Psycho Dad]

Also in my game Xenon are steam rolling everyone and im about 30 hr in. They have a force of 3 i's and 4 k's in Havana'a chocie 1 which is in the "loop" which is causing major eco problems lol

[Psycho Dad]

/lettherebewings

is not working for me..the only mod i have is sectorsat

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by tourist:

I remembered wrong from thread on egosoft scripts and modding forum (was thinking "Let there be light", many apologies:
https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=181&t=417499&sid=aeeb36075bf068073d673769fd41528c

/thereshallbewings

None needed! You have been a great help. Thanks kindly!

[Voidflakes]

Geez, proper fleet management STILL isn't in the game?! Guess I'll check back in another 6 months.....

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by tourist:

To add to this, I noticed the "thereshallbewings" is part of a Davinci quote on the loading screen!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1777692340
"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings."

Hate to reopen this BUT i know you would want to know.

The advanced behavior is bugged or doesn't work. At least for me.

I just figured this out today you give the subordinates the auto mine command and they will do it once then it will auto revert back to escorting the commander :(

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by tourist:

That is too bad, it seemed like it might happen. I guess it might help organizing fleet list but still managing each individually. Could maybe stack the mining orders, like 6-10 in queue?

3.0 is supposed to bring new fleet controls.

when is 3.0 update?

[Zekavin]

Actually if you pilot the fleet leader ship, you can assign back auto mine / auto trade orders to subordonates. I managed to group all my auto traders and auto Miner that way.

[Psycho Dad]

Originally posted by Zekavin:

Actually if you pilot the fleet leader ship, you can assign back auto mine / auto trade orders to subordonates. I managed to group all my auto traders and auto Miner that way.

It didn't revert back to "escort" for you? It does for me. Also u using the advanced behavior or normal behavior?

[Zekavin]

Originally posted by policemn_24_04:

Originally posted by Zekavin:

Actually if you pilot the fleet leader ship, you can assign back auto mine / auto trade orders to subordonates. I managed to group all my auto traders and auto Miner that way.

It didn't revert back to "escort" for you? It does for me. Also u using the advanced behavior or normal behavior?

Normal behavior and no it didn't. You just can't choose any commands if you're not piloting the squad leader ship

[deltaagent26]

A.F.A.I.K. fleet commands for mining and trading are still not working properly,
you have to set each ship individually to either auto mine or auto trade.
unless you have combat ships doing the escorting, but even then, they tend to not stay with the ship they are supposed to escort.