Sentry command

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

As for blowing up the star after enemies enter the sys, this is when you've got Clear orders when enemy presence is detected on, right? Or is it just that a sentry order is automatically cancelled when you detect an enemy?

[NullAshton]

The sentry command isn't over until an enemy ship is detected in the system I believe.

[bearclaw]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
As for blowing up the star after enemies enter the sys, this is when you've got Clear orders when enemy presence is detected on, right? Or is it just that a sentry order is automatically cancelled when you detect an enemy?

Nope, this is something seperate. Clear Orders on enemy presense will clear ALL orders.

Sentry will unsentry when an enemy ship is in the same system regardless of what the Clear Orders On Enemy Presense setting is.

As for Fleets cycling, just select the Fleet then Sentry (Y button)and the whole fleet will be sentried and will skip when cycling.

[Wade]

bearclaw said:

As for Fleets cycling, just select the Fleet then Sentry (Y button)and the whole fleet will be sentried and will skip when cycling.

Unfortionately this turns out not to be the case.
I'm using unmodded/stock version 1.95. It seems that this should have been addressed officially by now; in one of the many upgrades.

-Wade

[Fyron]

I've probably only hit the next fleet button twice in SE4. Its so much easier to just use the next ship button (spacebar!) and issue orders to whatever fleet the next ship is in. Turn on the "stop once at each location" flag, and it covers the next fleet button functionality too. And it skips sentried ships.

[capnq]

I never use the Next buttons, but I use the (F6) Ships screen a lot. Sorting the Orders column usually puts all the Sentry ships last. (I think the only common order that comes after Sentry alphabetically is Warp.)