Escort ship

[Lance Patchwork]

I built 2 ship acting as miner in the starting sector, is there a way to have them follow me to other sector? or do i have to do it manually?

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I think there is some sort of follow / protect mode but I never tried it before and as well as going from system to system. I know if you zoom out far enough you can select the ships and give them more like RTS orders.

[20k]

If you ask them to escort you, they'll follow you on 1 jump, but they cant track further than one jump (ie they'll follow you through multiple jumps, as long as you stay a maximum of 1 jump ahead). They'll also use warp gates, but they don't seem to be able to use boost which means that it can be very slow for them to get around

I do wish you could order them to follow a sequence of commands, or set a destination for them to warp to

[Lance Patchwork]

So if their hyperdrive allow a 2 sector jump, if i jump 3 sector ahead they wont follow, good to know.

cant wait for the day they will pathfind and jump on their own till they reach you if there is no gate.

To some extent arent the NPC ship jumping to other sector too or is it a *despawn*?

[Shaman-Ra]

Originally posted by jocan2003:

So if their hyperdrive allow a 2 sector jump, if i jump 3 sector ahead they wont follow, good to know.

I don't think he means that - they will follow you you one jump, regardless of distance, if their jump drive can do that distance. You must wait for them to catch up, then jump again. You can't keep jumping forward without them or you will lose them.

[Defektiv]

Just zoom out to the sector view and order your fleet around from there when you need to move them in groups.