Tell me WHAT instead of WHO are in a fleet!

CW · #1 October 14th, 2001, 04:07 PM

My Space Force in a certain PBW game has ballooned into a 519-ships administrative nightmare. I've a main naval base on a ringworld where I park all of my ships that are not immediately needed. There are also 9 warp points and a WP opener in the same sector. When a mission comes up I would pick an idling fleet, equip it with the ships from the Standby Pool and send them on the way. In this way I can send a 200+ ships fleet anywhere in the galaxy with only 1 turn notice. Sounds great doesn't it? In practice though it can get quite frustrating and chaotic when you have multiple missions poping up, due to the way fleets and ships are currently displayed. Very often I've no idea what I'm actually sending against the enemy, I pick my ships almost at random simply because I don't have the time to sort out the mess. Instead of a big list of ship names, I'm MUCH more interested in WHAT's actually in a fleet and WHAT's in a sector but I'm not patient enough to tally up with pen and paper every turn. I really hope MM will put in a condensed list feature that simply lists the numbers of different classes of ships in a fleet or in a sector.

One more thing that I've brought up before but not mentioned in the fixed list for the upcoming patch - There is absolutely no point having the ships list in the fleet transfer window jump back to the top every time a ship is selected into a fleet. I get really mad when I have to scoll through that thing 200 times in a roll.

[This message has been edited by CW (edited 14 October 2001).]

geoschmo · #2 October 14th, 2001, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by CW:
One more thing that I've brought up before but not mentioned in the fixed list for the upcoming patch - There is absolutely no point having the ships list in the fleet transfer window jump back to the top every time a ship is selected into a fleet. I get really mad when I have to scoll through that thing 200 times in a roll.

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4. Fixed - Fleet Transfer Window would reset the Vehicles in Sector
window to the top each time a ship was moved.

This is in the patch being worked on now. Hopefully that helps that problem.

I like the idea of having the fleet list display the class instead of the name. Have you sent that to Aaron?

Geoschmo

chewy027 · #3 October 14th, 2001, 04:59 PM

listing the amount of a certain class per fleet would definetely help when balancing out a fleet. As of now i just wait for the battle report in the log to see how much i have in each fleet. I know it gives the ships per fleet, but that is only so useful.

Dragonlord · #4 October 14th, 2001, 09:20 PM

My "workaround" for now is that I always make sure my ships names are identical to class names. Of course that means I have to manually rename every ship after every retrofit...

CW · #5 October 15th, 2001, 04:11 AM

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My "workaround" for now is that I always make sure my ships names are identical to class names. Of course that means I have to manually rename every ship after every retrofit...

That's what I do already but when you have a never-ending scroll list that is not in any order it still tend to get messy...

Baron Munchausen · #6 October 15th, 2001, 11:20 PM

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Originally posted by chewy027:
listing the amount of a certain class per fleet would definetely help when balancing out a fleet. As of now i just wait for the battle report in the log to see how much i have in each fleet. I know it gives the ships per fleet, but that is only so useful.

Yes, this is a good idea. Maybe there ought to be a "collapsed" mode for fleets like there is for ship designs.

A simple list of the number of each class in a fleet would be really handy for managing larger fleets.