emergency movement pods

[spoon]

Suicide Junkie said:
You can't limit them to one per ship. That breaks mods.

I'm talking about SEV, not SEIV, so there are no mods to be broken. That said, I prefer the former solution to the latter. But I'm biased towards modding.

And part of the point is that if you fired off just the EP 1's your fleet would not go any faster, because there are other ships with EP2s, or perhaps a modded engine/EP combo component.

I think I understand the confusion here. I am assuming that you will be able to order multiple Use Component orders to the same fleet.

Trying to manage used components on a fleet is going to require something far more complex than something resembling the single ship use-component order.

More complex, definitely. "Far more" complex, I don't think so. I guess it depends on how far you think far is...heh

This doesn't seem overly complex to me:
1) Click Use Component
2) Select from a list of components that are useable.
3) Select from a list which ships this order applies to.
4) Repeat for more components