I'm usually used 2 Frigates per Destroyer or Carrier, 4 - per Cruiser. Just Escorting more bigger ship. As for Carrier, there is very effective usage of Defend Point - they don't rick a lot, and fighters have a pretty near replacement base.
Usually single Hammerhead and Wolf with Lasher. Pretty hard combo, good with anti-missile and anti-fighters tasks. Frigates equipped with 4-types of missiles - Hammer or Reaper torpedo, Swarmer anti-fighter missiles (to get enemy AMS systems busy), Harpoon (for frigates) and Salamander (to displace enemy ship and get a point to launch torpedo).
Mostly first skill i pick up additional command points. Besides, i'll rather will buy than unlock a Command center hullmod for flagship. And also placing flagship to Carrier is very nice option for .8a RC 19 - skilling up in Leadership and you'll get a pretty evil fighters from Carrier.
AI is almost perfect. I'd rather would like to have an option to select my Officers behaviour from tactical view - that would be very nice option.
Ok, that was very interesting Weekend. I killed almost whole Saturday to manage the game works properly.
So, solution was very simple - antivirus. My "greatest and awesome" NIS managed to block a process with high CPU usage without even a single noticing to me. Discovered this occasionally, exploring the log of AV. And found a lot of entries about Java blocking.
That is'nt funny, believe me. I'm almost decided to fully re-install my Windows.
For now game work stable.
And some FAQ entry should be added - "Check your AV if something goes wrong with game"
Have same (or similar) issue. Game suddenly freezes, Java became unresponded.
My specs: Win 7 x64 FX 8350 MSI GTX 1060 8 Gb RAM SSD 60 Gb (game installed on SSD)
Game version - 0.8a (RC19)
Video drivers are up-to-date (from stable branch).
Already try to forced VSynC On - no effect. Also, checkdisk dont give me any effect. Already try with different JRE versions - both 7.79 and 7.8, also try out 8 (with disabling warnings in settings.json) Already try launching wia .bat, with and without sound, different fullscreen combinations (on and off) and different resoultions (from 1920x1080 downgrade 4 or 5 others res). Log don't have any suspicious info - seems to be, problem somwere in native Java, not in game files.
Almost forgot - vmparams modified for use 2 to 4 Gb of RAM. Already try both clean and modded versions (SS+)
Also, if this important - freeze become on same in-game date (13-th Dec 206).
upd. i will try to clearly re-install the game and try out videodrivers from Beta branch today at evening (in 8 hours at my local) - will post results after