ship gather point?

[Dogboy]

If you click on the wrench symbol (queue list) and select a planet, you can pull up "queue settings". If you scroll down, there is a "queue move to" button, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Is there a way to send ships to selected locations when they're built?

[Captain Kwok]

Set waypoints by selecting a sector and hitting CTRL+# (# = 1-9) and that will set a marker where you can send ships via the queue settings function.

[Dogboy]

Wow. That will really reduce micromanagement!

Thanks,DB

[Fyron]

One can also order ships and fleets to move to such waypoints by hitting the corresponding number key. I find it much more useful to cycle through new ships and send them to waypoints manually, than using the automatic queue moveto. I can be far more flexible with a set of waypoints to move new ships to, depending on how current fronts are faring, than just a rigid queue setting.

[Dogboy]

Thanks. Yes, one thing I discovered is that the way points mean colony ships leave without colonists. Is there a way to name each waypoint ("assault point", "military academy", etc.)?

[BlueTemplar]

That's one of many good reasons for not having "Automatic Colonization Population" set to 0.

[Captain Kwok]

It had been set so that it would leave 1M on the planet, but at some point that got borked.