Formations

[Arkcon]

Most people seem to agree, the order in which the ships are clicked to enter into formation is the order of the ships.

That's not a complete answer 'tho. I have tried to manipulate the formation, for example, to get the ship with the point defense in the right spot, and have it not work. Seems to have something to do with when the ship was created, or something even more subtle that I can't track down.

Reselecting which ship is the leader tends to resort the ship formation

[Aiken]

Not sure about "clicked order" rule. I tend to think that formation order dependant of ship's date of creation - oldest Last, newest first.

[Fyron]

aiken said:
Not sure about "clicked order" rule. I tend to think that formation order dependant of ship's date of creation - oldest Last, newest first.

This is how formation order is determined. Leader is the first ship or the ship designated later as the leader. All other ships are placed in slots based on the order that the ships were constructed. The order you add them to the fleet is irrelevant.

[spoon]

Man, everytime I hear this explanation, I just shake my head in wonderment.

SE4 is full of some amazingly great fun, and some amazingly bizarre design decisions...

[Fyron]

It is the simplest way of handling it, though not a very good way.

[Litcube]

Dumb. I mean, really.

[Kamog]

What happens if you have many ships in the fleet which were all built on the same day (from multiple shipyards)? Then does it use the clicked order?