Starship button, when you use this button on the starship window and there are more that one other ship at your current location you have the option of picking another ship to bring up
from a list of ships or to bring up the fleet order screen. The ships on this screen are sorted in the order that they will enter battle. The ship at the top of the list will fight first. If you
change the friendly code of the ships on the list they will be resorted.
Battle Ordering: All ship to ship combat has two combat stages:
1. Intercepting ships attack their intercept targets.
2. The Friendly Code Battle order.
Intercepts Attack - Under HOST.EXE Version 3.20 ships with a cloaking device on a intercept mission will attack their intercept target ship first. The highest ID ships on an intercept mission attack before the lower ID ships on intercept missions. Anytime a ship on an intercept mission goes into combat it looses its intercept lock. REMEMBER: You must set your primary enemy to the race of the ship you are intercepting if you wish to attack them.
Friendly Code Battle Order - Under the HOST.EXE 3.20 or better is determined by Friendly Code. The lower the numeric value the fcode the earlier the ship will fight.
If a group of ships have the following fcodes 001,234,889,456,mi1,zse,055 the ships will fight in this order:
001
055
234
456
889
mi1 or zse ( The lowest ID# ship will fight first )
Mixed friendly codes of letters and numbers count as a 1000 value, just as all letters equal a 1000 battle vaule while 001 equals a battle value of 1.
Your can use the Enter X,Y button to enter a new X,Y to use as a waypoint for the ships on the list. The up arrow move the (X,Y) from the panel up to the currently selected ship. The down arrow copies the current (X,Y) waypoint of the currently selected ship down to the (X,Y) box.
You can have the list display the ship names and hull types if you wish.
Fleet Screen Hot Keys:
f Friendly code change
w Warp speed change
s Ship screen (cuurently selected ship)
m Mission select
e Primary enemy select
h Hull names
n Names of ships
[ Put waypoint (X,Y) into current ship
] Get waypoint (X,Y) from current ship
x Enter a new (x,y)
l Large / small text
g Goodbye