Did 1.84 screw over support craft in fleets?

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Originally posted by Puke:
I think that if they are ALONE, then they will attempt to rush the weapon platforms and drop their troops. I really wish this was configurable, sometimes you really dont want to shoot at the planet. or in an early game of porportions, sometimes you CANT damage the planet, but you have enough troops or infantry to take it.

Yeah. How about if you send in ships with orders not to to target planets, to take out enemy ships/fighters/sats, and then have them leave in the same turn, and the transports move in alone afterwards? Seems like it should work, except if some of your strike ships get immobilized over the planet, or something else interferes with the plan.

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