Update on my Star Trek game: I've found a design that I really like for my exploration cruisers. I split the ship into two, a 40k ton commercial "saucer section" that tugs around a 26k ton secondary hull. In addition to the tug the saucer has hangars for survey craft and some fuel and maintenance reserves, while the secondary hull has military engines, a fairly short range, a long deployment time, and a battery of particle beamsphasers and photon torpedoes. During survey missions they normally stay attached, but if the ship gets into trouble the secondary hull can separate and fight at full speed.

This brings us to the story of the Horatio. USS Horatio, an Ambassador-class starship, was scouting Romulan space when it ran into some Romulan fuel harvesters with a light escort. The Federation and the Romulans are currently at war, so the Horatio attacked and destroyed all of them besides an escort cruiser that surrendered. The captured ship can't go anywhere under its own power -- in fact there aren't many undamaged components left -- but I wanted to try to recover it, so the Horatio's saucer tugged it to a safer system where a recovery vessel could pick it up. The secondary hull remained where it was while the ship's shuttles conducted survey operations. Meanwhile, though, a fleet of Romulan warships took up station at the jump point into the system, cutting off the Horatio's saucer from the rest of the ship! So now I'm assembling a fleet to retake the jump point so that I can reunite the Horatio's saucer and secondary hull. 

Quote from: Garfunkel on Yesterday at 06:56:24 AM

Doesn't this already exist?

It exists for some windows but is not consistent across all of them.

I added the important windows, like Tactical Map, Fleets, Economics and Events, but didn't want to get into checking every conceivable window to see if any are open and adding the refresh code to each one. Partly because its a lot of work for situations that often won't matter anyway, and partly because refreshing all open windows slows the game down a lot between increments.

2. No assignment specifically for fighters. I did not know it was an option, but does it mean you chalk off the Fighter Combat skill for all games and intent? Seems extreme too.

As far as I know, there was never implemented any case in the auto-assignment code for fighter-specific skills. It is a rather significant omission, probably worth a suggestions thread post.

You can select a commercial fleet as the target of your new fighter production. It seems a 'dangerous' and totally un-necessary option to me.

Commercial carriers are a thing, for hauling replacement fighters to the frontlines. Or do you mean a civilian fleet?

It seems strange, but searching for a similar request yielded no results: would it be possible to implement an "autorefresh" function for open/background windows? I think it would benefit the QOL.

-J-