Some totally newb questions

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Hi I'm new to SOASE (I'm still playing the demo although the game is on its way) and I have a couple of questions I hope you can help me with.

First, I don't get the "automatically get into a fleet" function. It seems that when I have any fleet (s) organized, all ships I construct will automatically go into a fleet. Now supposedly, according to the tutorial produced ships will go into a fleet of the same gravity well, however I see my new ships actually jumping to other planets in order to join some fleet. This is a problem because suppose I build a couple of frigates on planet A to supplement its defense, but they happily jump to planet B where the fleet is stationed. The fleet grows huge but planet A is defenseless.

I would like to have fleets but not have newly produced ships join those fleets. I prefer to organize my ships manually. How can I do this?

Which brings me to my second question: What advantage is there in having ships in a fleet over having them in a CTRL-x group? I have to resorted to the latter while I figure out the fleet thing.

Third: Is there a way to change the background color? Or actually turn it off! I mean the color space looks when you are zoomed in.  While light blue is tolerable, I find red and green irritating to the eyes. When I zoom out and space turns black it feels so refreshing.

    

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
lol if there was an answer to the third one, i'd change it, too.

to the first question, click on the frigate/capital factory and you'll see the "set rally point" option. cxlick on it and set it to wherever your strategy demands at the time

to the second, there are many tactical advantages to having ships in a fleet, such as specialized attack formations, the ability to set the default distance away from the fleet commander, automated retreat ( which i hope you won't need), and basically things to organize your ships

Well, now i'm off to demolish a 300+ ship pirate base with 100 kodiaks and 3 lvl 10 capital ships. either gonna be fun or a sure crash for my computer

hope this helps

superfingers

"bluer skies await"
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
In order to make it so new ships won't join a particular fleet, here is what to do.

Go to the fleet orders for any given fleet (located in lower right of screen) This is symbolized by a pointing finger. Click once on the pointing finger.

Now you will see some options, towards the right is a symbol that is ships in formation. This is the button you would normally left click on to create a fleet of already grouped ships.

Now, look more closely at the `create fleet button'. If it is set to have new or close by ships auto join this fleet automatically, there will be a spinning circle on this button. To turn OFF the auto join fleet, RIGHT click on this button, and you will notice that the spinning circle stops/disappears.

Now, no new or close by ships will auto join this fleet. In other words, the auto join fleet action is enabled or disabled in the commands for each individual fleet. It is not a function of the new ship being produced.

Got it? That spinning circle is not so easy to detect at first, but that is the secret!
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks!

BTW I found how to disable the colors, in options you can check off a box that says sky background color or something like that. But, the colors are there for a reason... when the sky is black, you can't see unselected ships, structures, asteroids, etc! So back to crimson skies it is...  :SNIFF!: 

PS The smilie isn't crying its just the watering eyes form those pastel backgrounds!  :LOL: 
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
This is not a bump, I still don't get the "join fleet" thing.

Sometimes, new ships join fleets whether the create fleet button has the spinning arrow or not. Other times, when I DO want new ships to join the fleet, they don't; again, whether the create fleet button has the spinning arrow or not.

Just to get this clear, in theory: -Spinning arrow=Ships will join.
-No spinning arrow=Ships will not join.

Is the function buggy, or might there be some other factor involved here?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I'm not sure what you mean about the background colour?

For me, at least, the background is the same colour of black no matter what level of zoom I am at. Yes, the gravity-well is very slightly tinged blue, but only enough such that you can see the contrast at the edges. I'm running a nvidia card (8800GTX) on winXP32 in case it matters.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I'm not sure what you mean about the background colour?For me, at least, the background is the same colour of black no matter what level of zoom I am at. Yes, the gravity-well is very slightly tinged blue, but only enough such that you can see the contrast at the edges. I'm running a nvidia card (8800GTX) on winXP32 in case it matters.

I think avasari means by the sky box...or the star color...I think it's the latter, because when you zoom in is color dominates the screen quite a bit...