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griboedov wrote on Sat, 02 April 2005 12:41

Quite often I use a spore cloud merged with a small freighter(+fuel miser/fuel tank) to increase the warp 9 range of my settlers and to move some extra pop to the new settlement. One turn before arrival I split the fleet, set the spore to colonize and move any excess fuel to the freighter if necessary. Even though I always check the speed of both vessels after splitting, sometimes the freighter appears to have decided to drop to warp 4 singlehandedly, thus delaying my pop transport. I haven't figured out when this happens and don't know how to prevent it from happening. It just looks like a random feature. It may very well be, that the freighter, if the returntrip is already scheduled, calculates that it should save on fuel now, even if I know that it will make it back easily when empty. But, not entering a return trip does not guarantee warp 9 either.

How exactly do you split the fleets? Do you delete the waypoint for the fleet, than split the fleet and assign the planet as a target again? Or do you just split the fleet?
Just asking because when you give a fleet colonize orders and give it a target it tries to get there as fast as it can, while a fleet with no colonize order will pick a slower speed ...

As a side note this is a trick often used to send out scouts, you give the scout the first target and tell it to colonize (this first speed setting you need to make manually) after that you start clicking the planets in the order you'd like to scout them and the scout will choose the speed needed to get everywhere ASAP ... (ignore the "can't colonize" message you'll get )

mch

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