Re: Maintaining formation and other whines
 

Also, why can't you CLOSE UP a formation when some ships get destroyed? Isn't the point of a formation to have the ships protect each other and tocoordinate firepower? If they mindlessly keep a position three places back when the intervening ships have been destroyed that's not very helpful. There should be a "re-assign formation slots" button to close them up.

Re: Maintaining formation and other whines
 

Uh, raynor, I think there's an option in the combat window to have the screen "Always center on current ship" or something like that. I frequently turn that off, because I usually like the center to be somewhere between my ships & the enemy ships.

Re: Maintaining formation and other whines
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
Uh, raynor, I think there's an option in the combat window to have the screen "Always center on current ship" or something like that. I frequently turn that off, because I usually like the center to be somewhere between my ships & the enemy ships.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ya know... I hear what you are saying. I recall having to re-center the view when I have it on 'Auto' because, like you, I want to see *both* sides of the conflict and not just my ships firing off the screen.

But when I'm on manual, I don't think it works. Because I know for a fact that even though that option is turned on, I have to keep moving the display so I can tell my transport ship to move to the planet.

I sure wish they would alter the AI with some sort of toggle so that they stop firing individual weapons themselves when you get close to destroying all the WEP's on a planet... GRRR! I hate when I forget to switch to manual, and my ships start destroying tons and tons of facilities on a planet I've brought in troops to invade with.