[Noble713]

1. Hmmm, are you doing the following to create a fleet:

a) Click on Fleet Transfer Button
b) Click Create Fleet and name it
c) Move the ships you want in the fleet from the left side of the window to the right by clicking on them. If you have more than 1 fleet in a sector, make sure the one you want is selected by clicking on it.
d) All done!

If you're doing this and your fleets are still being disbanded (and you don't have the fleet minister on), it could be a bug.

2. In the ships screen, click on Fleet. Along the display will be the headings Pic, Name, Experience, Fleet. Click on Fleet to sort your ships by what fleet they are in. Ships with no fleet will be at the bottom.

4. You can assign waypoints to your space yards so ships that they build will automatically move there. To do this:

a) Click on the Empire Status button, and then Waypoints.
b) Click Set.
c) You can now pick any sector you want in any (explored) system for a waypoint.
d) Go to a planet/space yard/etc. and bring up its construction queue.
e) Click on Set Move To and select a waypoint.

I think there are other ways to use waypoints, but I don't know what they are.

6. You can't upgrade or alter any units in any way, only jettison them. This is one of the disadvantages of not paying any maintenance on them.

7. Yeah, I'd like this too.

9. Click Empire Status and then Strategies. Select the strategy that you want and click Firing. Here you can change the target priorities as well as select items that shouldn't be fired on at all.

10. None that I know of.