Define agression control?

i mean you can tell them to fire but hold position, follow in the gravity well, or local area as far as i know. under tactics management.

I'm not sure most of those apply to Sins. There is no "stealth mode" in the game at all - once you have a ship in a gravity well, you get sensor information on everything in it. Sins defaults to "all guns blazing" unless you tell your ship using the orders panel to hold position and it's not in range of an enemy. Sins autoattacks the types of ships that your own vessel does the most damage to when different armor types are present, and I'm not sure what defensive combat is.

Not trying to tear apart your post, just not quite sure what you're asking for or how you'd expect it could be delivered in Sins, and I have a fear that much of it would increase micromanagement.

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im a little new as well, but here is what i know within the game capabilities...

1. Guarding ships/structures
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2. Patrolling within designated way points

you can select ships\strike craft to hold a position. the ai will move them to engage unless you specify hold position. against the computer i will often set planet based strike craft near the arrival points outside the grav well. this helps them to engage more quickly. its not a "guard" or "patrol" order but it effectively serves the same purpose.

3. Fleet formation

This would be nice, but for now we have Tight, Loose, and Standard. Combined with the move\attack order (Hold, Grav Well, Local Area) this can help you accomplish some tactical manuevers. ie. a Tight formation and Hold Position around structures.

4. Adding units to a paticular fleet.

I have a work around for this. Fleet management is new in Sins and very good but it does lack a unit level "Join Fleet" or "Make Leader" function. The AI helps you by auto-pinning units to fleets but this can be tricky especially if you have multiple fleets at a planet.

My current work around is to select all the ships in the system, remove all fleets, and then create a new fleet. Maybe someone has some else better options.

You can also set a fleet as a rally point for factories. This may help you as well.

yeah the rally feature is pretty good. you can set RP's as points in space, planets or fleets. maybe even more than that, but these three are all I use.

if you need ships faster than what a single factory can chunk out, try two factos at the same planet. this is useful especially when setup behind a line so you can quickly deliver reinforcements to your fronts (against AI this works. i would guess a human player would find the ship yard planets and wipe them out easily.)

for exmaple, on a large map i am working, i made peace with my neighbor and then started wiping out the other factions. the planet on the line near my "friend" has been building factories. so when i finish off everyone else i can quickly rev up local forces if they are needed until my main fleet gets to battle.


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also, i have been working with the add\remove from fleet buttons and i like them better now. its pretty easy to seperate ships from fleets and add new ones in. so +1 for stardock.

to the OP, if you want those things, buy Star Trek Armada II.

Yes, using "Abilities" should be easier. When I have 50 ships in a fleet and I do stack them or things are a bit unmanageable and I really hate selecting a stack of 10 ships, activating an ability, and one out of 10 does it when I really want 10/10 to do it.

Also, the Vasari missile boats abilities are a complete pain in the ass. "Disables Sub-light" for greater range? Bad idea.

Amen to Evernights57, lock the damn panel please.

Also, I would like to be able to have fleet composition matrices. Fleet 1 to have x number of capitals, x number of frigate types, x number of cruiser types. otherwise trying to separate a large fleet into small ones takes forever.

Helioforge not practicle to have a tow ship it may be idea for a mod to create a mobile factory ship.

In meantime u know u can instruct your factories to deliver to where your fleet is so u get a constant supply