What does the "Sentry" order do?

[dumbluck]

I can't figure anything out about it? What difference does it make if you put it on sentry or just leave it sit there??? Why is it that sometimes I can put a ship on sentry, and sometimes I cannot?

I hate to be asking a newbie ? like this, but I'm stumped here...

[Phoenix-D]

Sentry is mostly used to give ships an order so they don't show up as "no orders" in the ship list. Makes it easier to know who you've delt with and who you haven't.

What it does is has your ships sit there until an enemy ship enters the system. At that point the Sentry order is cleared.

Phoenix-D

[HEMAN]

My first impression trying sentry was ,i thought my ship would sit there until an enemy ship enters the system. At that point the Sentry order would automaticaly intercept and attack. Although i agree with dumbluck reason on this, i would like it changed. Besides the word sentry is to patroll and engage isnt it?. Any ideas about this guys? to send to mm?.

[This message has been edited by HEMAN (edited 15 September 2001).]

[tesco samoa]

I kind of like the way it is now. Would you want the computer to send your fleet of 4 ships against a fleet of 30 ships.

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[capnq]

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What it does is has your ships sit there until an enemy ship enters the system. At that point the Sentry order is cleared.

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There are two toggles in (F11) Status/Empire Options that control this; you can set it to never clear orders, only clear on contact with enemies, or clear on any contact.

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Besides the word sentry is to patroll and engage isnt it?.

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No, "sentry" only means "guard"; it also tends to imply staying at a fixed post, not patrolling.


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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Phoenix-D]

That toggle is for ships entering a system; it doesn't apply to the Sentry order.

Phoenix-D