Fleet of Fighters and Salvagers

[WeTitans3]

Question:

If i have a fleet with both gunner ships and salvage ship drone, and i give a command, how will it affect the different ships.

ie; Mine this Sector or Attack this Sector.

I personally would love to have a general multipurpose fleet while being able to make groups and give multiple different commands across my entire fleet.

 

[Sgtwisky]

If the command is:
Attack - Only ships with weapons should actually do something. Other ships will just sit there as far as I'm aware.

Mine - Only ships equipped with salvage beams and storage will mine.

Also keep in mind that mining ships will not mine wreckage yet. I assume it's planned though.

 

[Madman198237]

Another thing to note: Armed ships in a mining fleet will not defend themselves or the fleet if attacked under the "Mine Sector" command. Only thing to do is have 2 fleets instead of 1.

 

[Sgtwisky]

hum. Would be nice if you could have a primary and secondary command then. Like set the drones to "Defend" with a secondary of "Mine" so they would fight if something were attacking but otherwise would mine.

But alas I don't believe you gain much from a combined fleet.

 

[GRHayes]

Just put a suggestion in to deal with it Squadrons and flight wings.
allow assign of the ships to squadrons and then assign a squadron a task...

 

[Sgtwisky]

wouldn't making squadrons be just like making multiple fleets though? I don't see the point in it.

 

[Batavium]

The AI can not Multi task. :D

You can add a turret to your salvage drones. One so the entity count doesn't skyrocket. The fleet will than have multiple turrets to defend it self.