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.. continously give orders about enemy ship targets/avoids and objectives. You specifically get skills and/or ship mods that increase command point limit.

.. check the orders every now and then as the situation develops, but rarely wish you had extra command points.

.. give/cancel orders when you notice something important is going on.

.. give orders at the start and retreat low CR ships, but almost never anything else.

.. never care about battle command aside from ship deployment.

[Kriby]

Just curious how everybody is engaging with the command points stuff.

[Grievous69]

Just to note that this also depends on the fleet setup and specific ship loadouts. Sometimes I play just giving a few engage orders here and there, and sometimes I have to constantly look to see if my suicidal ship is overextended. So I picked the middle option.

[ubernoob]

Honestly depends on the ships, regular low/high tech and SO fleet I usually only assign defense then full assault and barely micro, if I have Omens I choose escorts, if I have fast ships they cap points first, if I have carriers orders get issued after every strike if I'm using bombers or high DPS fighters.

And with a lighter force it's usually avoid on capitals and retreats when CR goes down.

[Rudragun]

If I have Support Doctrine, I never run out. Otherwise, I have too few command points.
The problem I have with the Command Points system is that the countdown for a Command Point is not in real-time (unless you stay in the tactical view. i.e. if I give a command, unpause and pilot my ship for a second, then pause again to revise it, I have lost that command point. As soon as you switch off the strategic/tactical view, you have lost that point; if you stay on the tactical view and leave your ship to autopilot, it has a time bar that goes down until that point expires. This was a huge hurdle for me in learning the game, and I still make the mistake sometimes and lose a command point that I was still using because I know I'm still in the time period but have switched to my ship to vent or something.

[prav]

If I have to babysit a ship it's not getting recovered next time it blows up.

[R4dioS1lence]

I'm lazy, so I figure out fleets that don't rely on micromanagement, and either set some Escorts and Search and Destroy orders and leave at that, or straight out set everyone to Search and Destroy, hit the Full Assault, and call it a day.

[eert5rty7u8i9i7u6yrewqdef]

I prefer faster playstyles, with my latest all being Nova focused blitzkriegs.
To say Novas are command point intensive is an understatement. Their extreme movement system on top of their fearless AI makes them suicidal, so a mixture of civilian rally point, waypoint, eliminate on exposed ships, and direct retreat is required to make efficient use of them. Likewise, they have poor PD, and need an escort which also has to be managed.

It is worth it however. I need to try my latest build in vanilla, (curse you HMI and giving Remnants broken weapons), but I'm pretty sure I can beat five full sized Ordos with them.
Even with unbalanced mods, my fleet still can kill the big threats in the initial engagement, and then encircle the enemies spawn point before they can properly reinforce. Which results in my TT Brawlers and Tempests cleaning up the random destroyers and frigates running around, while my Novas contain and pummel anything that gets deployed.

[doll]

Pretty much only ever give commands to try to ensure I kill everything.
For actual fights with any chance of losing, it's almost always better to let ships kite under their own inclinations.

Primarily using cruiser warships.
I use many more commands with fighters/destroyers but tend to avoid them unless I'm on an extreme budget for that very reason. There's little reason not to macro unless you're doing a challenge run.

[Killer of Fate]

polls like these are pointless, you're getting a very skewed demographic. Unless you are running polls along other networks of Starsector community. The only one that would give reliant data is one that would pop up in the menu of Starsector. But even then a very large amount of people would probably ignore it.

[Megas]

The less I need to order my ships around, the better.  I do give initial orders and retreat ships that are too badly damaged and/or losing CR.  Occasionally, I eliminate priority targets.  Rarely, I avoid targets that are either too dangerous or I want left alive.