Boarding parties

[Dragonlord]

I have done some tests too, in the combat simulator. One ship design has only engines, armor and boarding parties. The ship strategy is "Capture enemy ships".
This works as intended in the simulator.
Another ship design is same as first but now with a shield depleter added. This won't work, my ships will run away. This is against enemy ships with NO shields. I tried it with both the settings of having "board ships" as the primary OR the secondary movement strategy. (the other was optimal range).

What worries me is that you can't add fleets to the simulator. So if an individual ship's settings work in the simulator, that will only work in fleets the moment the ships orders kick in (overriding the fleet's orders). It is still a mystery to me when exactly that happens.

And I'm worried that if I set fleet orders to Capture Ships, all my other regular attack ships will sit around doing nothing...

Can anyone shed some more light on this? I'm getting more and more confused...

[Phoenix-D]

You can use fleets in the simulator. There's a set fleets for players button.. problem is right now there's ALSO a bug where the fleet (if you make a new one for testing) disappears when you try to add ships to it.

Phoenix-D

[Suicide Junkie]

Once again, the solution for the Simfleets bug is to open the "fleets for player" window, close it, then open it a second time. It will now work OK, but you must do that each time you open the simulator window.

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[Dragonlord]

I'm sorry, but I still don't get it. Opening the "fleet for player" window a second time gives me the same results as opening it the first time. I can *see* my existing fleets but not add them to the list of things to be used in the simulator. Nor can I add single ships through that window (which is OK cause I can add them through the normal window)

Wish there was an easy manual explaining how to use existing fleets (with their fleet orders) in the simulator.