Sentry command

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

.....and somehow it nukes the sun when enemies warp in?

Heeheehee..... Somehow, I find this phrase comical. Nukes the sun..... heeheehee.

I always give ships the Sentry order when I want them to guard/train, or simply wait until the entire fleet is assembled. I never use the next/previous ship/fleet/planet/whatever buttons though.

[Phoenix-D]

The Sentry order is pretty simple. It holds the ship where it is until enemies arrive, then executes any other orders in the list.

So if your Star Destroyer was parked over a star, and you gave it these orders:

Sentry
Destroy Star

It would destroy the star when it first saw an enemy ship enter the system.

[TurinTurambar]

Phoenix-D said:
The Sentry order is pretty simple. It holds the ship where it is until enemies arrive, then executes any other orders in the list.

So if your Star Destroyer was parked over a star, and you gave it these orders:

Sentry
Destroy Star

It would destroy the star when it first saw an enemy ship enter the system.

Now THAT is the information I was looking for!

Thanks all,
Turin

[Wade]

Concerning the cycle *Fleets* swicth.

Pressing sentry for a Fleet sets the individual ships within it to sentry but the Fleet still cycles.

Is there a way to set Fleets to sentry so that they do not cycle?

-Wade

[Urendi Maleldil]

Woah. So if the fleet orders cycle while the individual ship orders are sentried, does that mean you can order a fleet to patrol through a system and then when it sees an enemy ship to execute individual ship orders?

[Arkcon]

Phoenix-D said:
The Sentry order is pretty simple. It holds the ship where it is until enemies arrive, then executes any other orders in the list.

So if your Star Destroyer was parked over a star, and you gave it these orders:

Sentry
Destroy Star

It would destroy the star when it first saw an enemy ship enter the system.

TurinTurambar said:
Now THAT is the information I was looking for!

Thanks all,
Turin

Yeah, or if the ship ran out of supplies, it will also clear its Sentry orders. That could happen to a parked ship that took damage to components that held half of its supplies, by intel or some random event.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

Sentry has 2 use : trigger the order once ennemy is in the system (like blowing away the system - I tend to haves a black hole creator in every system I control) because the sentry clear and others order resolve
Or skipping them for next button, to have less ship to walk throught.