Information about the groups in orbit
This window shows a list of all the ships that are in orbit of or en route
to the given planet. If you lost a battle at that planet this turn, the
information from the L column of the battle report will be shown.
There is a local menu for the groups, which is brought up by the right
mouse button. For any group, the following commands are available:
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Send to a planet
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Load and unload cargo
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Break group
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Join/remove the group to/from a fleet
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Upgrade the ships in the group
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Give group to another race (all versions except NG)
Multiple groups may be selected in the standard Windows fashion and these
orders will be applied to all the selected groups. The unload command when
applied to multiple groups will unload all cargo on board. For G+ games,
in case of multiple upgrade the user will have an option of setting maximal
upgrade or minimal possible one (for the "hiding" trick, in that case the
minimal possible amount of L will be used for each group).
Also it's possible to load the ships characteristics into the ship calculator.
And of course all the filtering, sorting, query and selection functions
of list windows are available.
For the Send command, the following additional options are available
(useful for probing):
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Hold Shift while selecting the command - switch to the manual ship-by-ship
send mode, the number of ships to send is automatically set at 1 but can
be changed, and the window is not closed until either the whole group is
sent out or the sending the next ship is cancelled.
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Hold Shift while selecting the command - switch to the automatic ship-by-ship
sending mode; the sending is done in accordance to the increasing in the
distance to the destination. Also the maximum number of ships to send out
and maximum ETA can be set. In Team series games (G+ only), the sending
will take account of the ships of the other team members.
he status line shows additional information about the selected ships:
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Number of ships
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Total weight of the selection
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Total number of guns
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Total bombing (G+ only)
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Speed of a fleet that would consist of the selection, taking account of
the towing if the towing feature is present and the option is selected.
When a group is selected, Shift-F2 will show the map with the destination
(if the map is wrap-around, it will be centered on the destination), Shift-F5
will open the race list and select the group owner, Shift-F6 will open
the planets list and select the destination. The tables will be opened
taking account of the currently set filters, so it's possible that a planet
or a race will not be set as current element if they are filtered out and
not shown.
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Groups list
The groups list can be opened form the main window or by pressing F7.
The interface is similar to the one of the window “Informationabout
the groups in orbit”. As for planets, the detailed information about
the destination is shown in the status panel of the map. All functions
available from the Groups-In-Orbit list are available here. The status
line shows the same information.
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Fleets list
The fleets list can be opened from the main menu. The window lists the
fleets, shows their speed and the number of groups they consist of.
The following commands are available:
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Send a fleet to a planet
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Merge two fleets
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