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Re: Split Fleet Proposal

Mon, 23 June 2008 14:23

m.a@stars

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Well, I've come to regard this as a pretty workable solution, once you solve the outstanding nitty-gritty details:

Deal

Transfer of fuel between fleets at the same location should still be allowed, at least to a certain extent.

Deal

Transfer of personnel and cargo would be highly desirable too, but perhaps is not essential.

Deal

Transfers of ships themselves between fleets should be discouraged, but I'm not 100% sure the necessary functionality can be maintained if all are forbidden. Confused

Then everybody would be forced to just bunch their ships into independent fleets that just happened to travel together. These independent fleets would be independently targetable, and would also have independent battle plans. Very Happy

One of the main reasons to group fleets into larger fleets is fuel, hence detail #1.

Other reasons to group ships into fleets exist, and these will need some support to reduce micromanagement and actually discourage the "one big fleet does all" mentality:

Deal

battle plans should be able to be shared. Cool

easy ways to say "this fleet will follow this other fleet(s) until new orders" must exist.

Deal

the ability to still enter battle as a single token for ships of the same design should exist, even if it's not always used.

Deal

others that perhaps I'm overlooking...

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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		Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Fri, 20 June 2008 00:36
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: donjon on Fri, 20 June 2008 13:31
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Fri, 20 June 2008 20:02
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: gible on Fri, 20 June 2008 20:44
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Coyote on Sat, 21 June 2008 04:54
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Sat, 21 June 2008 05:28
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: gible on Sat, 21 June 2008 07:09
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Sat, 21 June 2008 11:15
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Coyote on Sat, 21 June 2008 15:39
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Sat, 21 June 2008 17:32
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Mon, 23 June 2008 14:23
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: ck_drknes on Mon, 23 June 2008 23:18
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Tue, 24 June 2008 01:54
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 24 June 2008 04:53
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 24 June 2008 04:59
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: stranger on Mon, 28 July 2008 23:40
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 29 July 2008 05:05
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Adacore on Tue, 29 July 2008 00:06
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 29 July 2008 05:06
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: LEit on Tue, 29 July 2008 10:43
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Wed, 30 July 2008 15:24
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: craebild on Wed, 30 July 2008 16:16
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: LEit on Thu, 31 July 2008 11:41
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Downsider on Mon, 25 August 2008 08:37
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: m.a@stars on Tue, 26 August 2008 03:32
		Re: Split Fleet Proposal By: Marduk on Tue, 04 November 2008 03:13

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