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wilker7ribeiro
Ensign
Posts: 3
Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 02, 2019, 06:30:33 PM »
I think would be cool to have a pre-battle screen where we could organize where to deploy fleet.
Maybe even do some strategy in this screen like flank, defend a carrier, etc.
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Nick XR
Admiral
Posts: 712
Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 02, 2019, 08:23:53 PM »
Good thoughts, I'd personally be happy to ensure that my flagship was always in the front center so it's first action wasn't to nose into someone else's engine...
Maybe just some presets where you choose your flagship location, then some other presets for the actual formation.
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intrinsic_parity
Admiral
Posts: 3071
Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 11, 2019, 08:17:08 PM »
I'm actually sort of curious how the game decides where ships spawn. I also often have to send ships across the entire formation at the start of battle to get the escorts I want to the OP's suggestion would be pretty nice to have.
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33k7
Ensign
Posts: 45
Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 12, 2019, 08:13:42 PM »
I completely agree I have no idea how many times I've looked at my fleet deployment and go why the hell is my carriers in front of my Cruisers and battleships
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Plantissue
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Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 13, 2019, 06:35:37 AM »
I wouldn't mind. In my case I would probably predeploy by spreading out all my ships in a nice straight line or bunch them all together in a corner, depending on how large the deployment space is. Though I would suppose the seemingly random deployment could be a consequence of the chaos of a meeting engagement.
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33k7
Ensign
Posts: 45
Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 13, 2019, 03:05:09 PM »
I would be fine with that if someone caught you off guard yeah you're not going to be able to deploy your ships
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Serenitis
Admiral
Posts: 1458
Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 14, 2019, 06:42:19 AM »
Yes.
I always deploy my flagship on its own first, just so I don't have to deal with the ridiculous 'traffic jams' that can happen when you send in a group of ships and one or more of them decide that burn drives are bad and crawling past the boundary is super exciting.
Even if it's just something as simple as:
With one box each from the top and bottom row as the selection.
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Thaago
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Re: Pre-battle fleet deployment screen
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December 14, 2019, 02:49:26 PM »
This would be great! On my wishlist: good API hooks so the deployment formations could be called for custom AI deployments in the AI battles mod. Not exactly important for the base game, but I think they are fun.
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