Squadrons

[Wolverines527]

Hey guys this is a thought i had while i was playing starmade on a local server

What squadrons would do is basically what fleets do but be bits of a fleet 4 members per squadron

It would have more options other then

Attack
Defend
Form up
Mine
Carrier recall

It would allow you to have the escort option which any entity set on this will attack any hostile entity that is closest to the object the entity is escorting

The option would work much like the sector set up but instead of putting in numbers you put in the name of the squadron or fleet in the name bar and the Ai will follow the fleet or squadron until the setting is turned off

It would make fighters protecting bombers while on bombing runs a thing
Or multiple squadrons forming a fighter screen a thing

 

[MacThule]

Independently commandable fleet subdivisions (squadrons, or wings, or lances, or whatever) +1

Additional fleet commands (escort, etc) +1
This has been suggested a few times

Although creating autonomous fleet subdivisions might be harder than just allowing players to issue commands to multiple fleets at once. A squadron is just a name, and people will want dozens of different names, might as well just leave it at "fleets" in a generic sense and let people name them individually. But if you could order 4 different fleets of 4 fighters each around as a group of fleets, it would for all purposes be a super-fleet, moving as one entity until you decided to issue a separate command to a particular "squadron" (ie one of the constituent fleets of the super-fleet/armada/flotilla/insert random cultural or historic name here).

More fleet commands would be great, but giving some levels of command access to more variety of commands than others seems like pointless restriction. A "fleet" by any name and at any size/power should be able to escort or defend same as any other level of command, IMO.
[doublepost=1482858657,1482858402][/doublepost]Allowing players to somehow group fleets or whatever (even if by just allowing us to issue commands to multiple fleets at once) would be fantastic.

 

[terra mining corp.]

I like the escort idea to have protection of ships,areas,stations more selectable and not have the wingships bugger off when you are repelling station or convoy attacks.

 

[Theats]

Is it currently a capability to 'tier' fleets?

A few fighters> Fleet 1

Fleet 1, 2 and 3 (all identical) assigned to Carrier ship

Carrier ship and escort friggates > Fleet 4.

Moving fleet 4 moves the carrier and its escorts, and giving orders to fleet 1-3 sends out those fleets, undocking them from the carrier ship.

Is that possible?

 

[MacThule]

Is it currently a capability to 'tier' fleets?

A few fighters> Fleet 1

Fleet 1, 2 and 3 (all identical) assigned to Carrier ship

Carrier ship and escort friggates > Fleet 4.

Moving fleet 4 moves the carrier and its escorts, and giving orders to fleet 1-3 sends out those fleets, undocking them from the carrier ship.

Is that possible?

No, but I really hope that something of the sort is implemented in the future!