[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
"Patrol" means to stay put until an enemy is spotted or supplies reach the "warning" level, at which time, the patrol order is cleared and any subsequent orders are followed.

It also allows you to have an order on ships that are supposed to be not moving, so you can filter them out of the next/previous ship button.

Don't want to second-guess you SJ, but isn't that the "Sentry" command? And then, in SEIV anyways, it doesn't use supplies and will sit there until an enemy sighting. In SEIII a ship / fleet used supplies while "Sentry". Maybe you confused / mixed the two.

IIRC "Patrol" is designed for continuous movement between 2 points until enemy sighting.

Or has something changed while I wasn't looking....