Patrolling

[couslee]

No confustion at all. makes scents (it stinks).

that is a good use for it. What i was wanting to do was place a fleet to patrol an area around an enemy planet, and intercept any ships leaving that planet, while at the same time, not entering the sector the planet is in. Any way to set that up? or has those attempts been a waste of my time. ugg

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by couslee:
No confustion at all. makes scents (it stinks).

that is a good use for it. What i was wanting to do was place a fleet to patrol an area around an enemy planet, and intercept any ships leaving that planet, while at the same time, not entering the sector the planet is in. Any way to set that up? or has those attempts been a waste of my time. ugg

hmm no I don't believe there is. Unfortunantly you can't set up the game to automatically intercept ships leaving the homeworld. You have to issue the command manually. If you see a ship leave and you want to attack it, you have to go to the attack command. It would be neat to have a feature to automatically intercept ships though.
It'd be worth mentioning to Aaron, althought I imagine it'd be hard to code into the game. But it could be added to SEV I'm sure.

[Krsqk]

Make sure the "Ships should clear orders when enemy presence enters system" option is checked. (Empire Options screen) Any time it encounters an enemy ship, it will clear orders, allowing you to enter new ones to attack the enemy.

Now, I agree it would be nice to have a "Patrol, but deviate from course to attack enemies up to X sectors away, provided they are below Y% of our strength" order system. SE5?

[couslee]

Krysk, that selection is a dual edged sword. If you also are bring in reinforcements, ect into that, or another system, they won't complete thier moves. real pain in situltaneous games, since you lose those points..