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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
The obvious solution is to split your ships into two fleets, and just fly them around together using the Shift-Select method.
Shift-select is fraught with "features".
E.g. Try shift-select instructing a stack of ships/fleets to travel more than one turn's distance. The stack will use up their (lowest common denominator) number of steps moving
en masse. Then at the start of your next turn the computer will move elements of your fleet one ship or fleet at a time. Depending on your empire option settings, you can lose the whole stack to an enemy fleet or minefield.
I've been much more circumspect in my use of shift-select since upgrading to 1.35 so I'm not sure whether this is still the case.
Another funny (which I haven't seen for a while) was the random walk bug. Each element of a stack would in turn take the same random zig-zag walk around the system when (a) the stack contained many ships, (b) the stack had recently encountered a minefield on a warp point.
(It may be that the bug is still there but I haven't been at the 100 ship fleet stage of a game recently.)
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