[Taera]

hmm, so someone finaly complained about the strategies and formations.

In my opinion the problems with formations begin when you insert non-war ships (carrier, transport etc). I have found a single solution to avoid formation breaking and is realy effective. What you need is to put at least one weapon, preferably with ROF 1 to the ship (any) and then go to strategies and edit the strategy of the fleet (or better - make your own) to not break formation with the given type of ships.
Works fine, though i think that planet capturing does not work in that case.

Planet bombardament is more complex issue.
From what i know that there are 3 things that should be accomplished that ships will not fire on the planet:
1. The planet should not have WPs (look below)
2. There should be a trasport carrying troops
3. Attacking ships should be in a fleet with "capture planet" strategy (or any of your own variations)

Now there is one exception.
If the ships do not have transport in their fleet but have the orders to not fire on planets, they will not fire only if there are no WPs on the planet.
If there are, they will fire untill they are all gone. If then there is no transport to capture the planet, they will just glass it.

Im not sure how right is it all, but those are my own observations.