A couple questions

posted on April 9th, 2009, 6:48 pm

For many years now, I have sticked to STA 1.  I thought 2 would be just as good.  Needless to say, I was disappointed with 2.  So after a while my older brother introduced me to fleet ops.  I am very impressed with it but have a few questions.

1.  What exactly is system value and what does it do or give the player?

2.  Is there a function that will create a specific fleet that will stay in close proximity to one another and I can press another button to select all the ships in a previously created fleet?

Thanks.  I might not reply until Monday because my family is leaving on a trip today (bad idea posing these questions now I guess, whatever).

posted on April 9th, 2009, 7:29 pm

System value describes special energy of the ship (I can't remember if it also describes shield and health rebuilding speed though). For instance: a support ship will have a higher system value then a non support ship etc.

I don't think I understand the first part of your question, but you can always select a group of up to 16 ships, hold down control and press a number. Then, when you press that number again, your fleet of 16 ships will be selected. If you want ships to follow each other, you can always use the "guard" ability available at the "command chair" icon.

posted on April 9th, 2009, 9:06 pm

System Value does also increase the regen rates of the shields and hull.  I found this out when comparing the Federation's Euradi yard ships with each avatar.

Dominus is right that you can put faster ships on "guard" so that they move at the same pace.  If you are talking about movement autonomy (Click the Brain icon), you can change it from low, medium, to high, which all have different tooltips on what they do.  You can also set this from the shipyard, which will make that the default for every ship you make.

posted on April 10th, 2009, 3:46 am

There is also a way to force all of the faster ships in a fleet to move at the same speed as the slower ships but i don't know the command.

posted on April 10th, 2009, 3:49 am

Can FO still do that?  It was in stock A2, but there's no button for it now.  Is there a shortcut that still works?

posted on April 10th, 2009, 3:57 am

it was mentioned somewhere i think its a keyboard shortcut but i don't remember it

posted on April 10th, 2009, 6:13 am

  You have to keep the CTRL pressed when issuing command.

posted on April 10th, 2009, 1:22 pm

  You have to keep the CTRL pressed when issuing command.

Yes, most of the time it works 

posted on April 10th, 2009, 5:56 pm

Or you could tell the fastest ships to guard the slowest ship. That's what I do, and it works 100% of the time.

posted on May 29th, 2009, 3:41 pm

I think a formation and yellow movement autonomy (moving only as a formation) should help too, especially if they are a group with a number,

posted on May 30th, 2009, 12:36 am

hold down CTRL and select a number on the keyboard, and it will assign them to a fleet  under that number.  from that point on, you can just press the number and it will automatically select all ships assigned to that fleet whenever you need.

posted on May 30th, 2009, 12:43 am

If you tell a fleet to guard its slowest ship they will stay togeather.  This also works with many fleets at a time and best of all, wen you get close to an enemy they rush them in attempt to protect the slower ship you told them to guard.