[Suggestion] Fleet flagship

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You designate a flagship for your fleet. The flagship is then always the default at the top of the stack when select your fleet. you dont have to hit tab several times to get the ship you want to activate it's power you've built your fleet around (I... play... advent... :p). I would use it for capitals, but I suspect some might want to have a non-capital as the flagship.

Theres potential in there for some bonuses (either to the flagship or for taking it out), but I just want to be able to get the ship I want to the top. Currently, Capitals always go to the top. Within the Capitals, the oldest ship is at the top of the stack, it doesnt matter how you select it.

I would also like to set my ship delivery to the fleet instead of the ship at the top of the stack in the fleet. when that ship dies, my reinforcements never arrive.

FYI, If my talk of 'stacks' is confusing: you have a fleet selected in the empire tree. imagine each of the ships selected as a card arranged face up, then stacked into an ordered deck. the highlighted ship out of the selection is the one 'on top of the stack' of cards. Hitting tab is like taking the top card and placing it on the bottom of the deck.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Both of those already exist. Ships will automatically join the fleet if they go to the grav well with it, rather than have them move to the leader ship icon.

You can tab through your selection before forming the fleet and choose a ship to be the leader of the fleet. It will be the ship with the darker box around it. You can just select the fleet, tab around until you get the ship you want, and then hit form fleet again if you want to set a different one. It doesn't have to be a cap.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Okay, so I went through a few games trying to see if this problem was fixed as you seem to claim, but its not. Yes, there is a 'Flagship' in the game. When i read my post now, I guess I didnt state the real problem clearly. My suggestion was a way to fix what I see as a problem, but also took the opportunity to add game mechanics. I direct your attention to this thread: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/343452. Top half. thread kinda got hijacked the other half.

If you still dont understand, do this quick test: build 2 capitals. put them in a fleet together. try to assign it to a number in such a way that the second capital constructed is the default ship selected when you select the fleet. You cant do it. Heck, if you push the fleet icon, it doesnt work. The game prioritizes based off when the capital ships were built. It doesnt matter if you disband and reform the fleet, the only thing that can fix it is to get that first capital ship destroyed.

I understand that it seems pretty simple to tab through till you get what you want, and I do tab through. I'm just saying it'd be nice to set what comes up by default so I might not have to. I know I could assign each capital its own number, thus giving me the ship I want. I sometimes do this, but I like to play big games and have too many fleets going around to do that correctly. Besides, it currently doesnt make sense. When you select a fleet, the flagship should be at the top of the stack (or default ship).

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Never had this issue.

Ok I just checked that selecting two caps, tabbing once so that the second is on top and THEN creating fleet leaves you with a fleet with the SECOND cap on top.

Yeah, if you assign them to a number and bring the selection back through that number, flagship jumps on top. Funny. But if you deselect the group and then click the fleet icon, you get the ship you wanted on top.