Fleet position

[Captain Kwok]

Imperator Fyron said:...This random placement is the same method used for a group of unfleeted warships (such as when you have a group of ships orbiting a world and you are attacked). It is a very poor solution, but it is what the game does.

What's wrong with that... since the ships aren't officially organized into a fleet maybe they're going about their business in the sector - you know just milling about.

[Fyron]

For unarmed vessels or excess warships in a fleet, it makes no sense at all and causes them to be picked off one by one, when the fleet they are with should be protecting the unarmed combat vessels. If SE4 had smart enough AI that would group the warships together before sending them towards the enemy fleet, unfleeted or excess ships "milling about" wouldn't be such a big deal... There should be no set limit to the number of ships that can fit into a fleet formation. Unarmed vessels should be protectable. Hopefully SEV gets it right...

[NullAshton]

Unarmed ships can be protected, Fyron, all you have to do is turn off that type of ship in the strategy that says 'break formation'...

[Fyron]

NullAshton said:
Unarmed ships can be protected, Fyron, all you have to do is turn off that type of ship in the strategy that says 'break formation'...

From everything I have seen, ships with no weapons are never placed in formations, regardless of the strategy settings. In small fleet combats, they tend to be placed centrally located behind the fleet of warships, but in larger combats, anything goes.