Read by Council Fleets vs Formation vs Mission

[Lone_Puppy]

Hi Folks,

I had a wee play with the Prebuild to have a nosey at how Fleets are looking. It's very cool to see ships falling into formation!

The thing I noticed is, the create Fleet and Fleet management in the prebuild I checked out (starmade-build_20160218_174016) in general is really formation management.

I would expect to be able to have a fleet of ships, and these ships then fall into multiple formations.

Then I would manage everything with directives categorised as Fleet, Mission, Formation, Individual (Planet, Structure, NPC).

For example,

I would have a Fleet of say, 6 ships.

Ship 1 - The Flag Ship
Ship 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 - other ships in the fleet.

Then I would have formations within the fleet.

Formation 1
Ship 1,2 & 3 (Where 1 is the leader in the formation)

Formation 2 would have
Ships 4 & 5, with 4 the leader in the formation.

Formation 3
Ship 6 (naturally the leader since it's the only one)


Directives would be categorised as mentioned above and then have priorities, with a bias towards a certain action to take based on situation data. Perhaps a weighted calculation could be applied to act as the bias or priority to simulate some kind of fuzzy logic decision process.
Anyway, some examples of this would be.

Fleet Directives
- Protect/Defend Faction
- Protect/Defend Allies
- Protect/Defend Flag Ship or designated target
- Attack Enemies
- Trade X with Ally Y

Mission Directives
- Obey Fleet Directives else on mission
- Carry out primary orders
- Carry out secondary orders
- Carry out tertiary orders

Formation Directives
- Obey Fleet Directives else on mission
- Protect/Defend Lead Ship
- Protect/Defend Self
- Attack Enemy
- Repair Lead Ship
- Repair Formation member with most damage else already under way then repair next most damaged
- Carry out primary orders
- Carry out secondary orders
- Carry out tertiary orders

Individual Directives
- Obey Fleet Directives else on mission
- Obey Mission Directives else in formation
- Obey Formation Directives else individual
- Protect/Defend Self
- Attack Enemy
- Repair Self
- Carry out primary orders
- Carry out secondary orders
- Carry out tertiary orders

 

[NeonSturm]

I agree. Some example to show why:

Flagship: (directives sorted)

1. Survive
2. Help fighting
3. Do not travel with the Captain's Shuttle away
   
4. Emergency Escape Jump
   
5. Do not jump with fighters away
   
6. …

Captain's Shuttle

1. Do diplomatic missions (fetch trade offers, carry high-valuable, low-amount cargo)
2. Block the Flagship's free movement to about 8 sectors around.

 

[Lone_Puppy]

Block the Flagship's free movement to about 8 sectors around

But who will attack the Borg, I mean doom cubes?

 

[Lone_Puppy]

Additional request for me would be a better logging system so you can have a ships log with general and specific logging sections like, Mission, Engineering, Medical, Security and Science logs.

Although, a bigger logging system would allow us to created this for ourselves. I guess this would be added into the Display module functionality perhaps.

 

[Lone_Puppy]

There's one important category I missed that comes before formation and that's Armada.