How to organize my Task Groups

[Hawkeye (OP)]

This is just a little "trick" to sort your task groups in a more usefull manner.

Task Groups are ordered (on the F12 screen) alphabetical. This is all nice and fine, but using 1st Battle Squadron and 2nd Battle Squadron, for example, will have 1st Fright Group and 1st Colony Group intermixed with those combat groups.

To avoid this, I name the groups name/number, i.e. Battle Squadron 1, Battles Squadron 2. Now all Battle Squadron will be listed one after the other.

This still puts Colony Group 1 between the Battle Squadrons and Destroyer Sqadron 1, however.
To avoid even this, I put <Space> in front.

The shipyard group will get three spaces in front, so it will allways be the first on the list.

Regular combat groups, that will receive orders regularly, get two spaces

FAC groups get one space and everything else gets no space.

[sloanjh]

I do the same thing, with two differences:

1)  I hadn't thought of the spaces trick - clever!
2)  I've started adding 1 or 2 leading zeros whenever a number appears in a name, e.g. Attack 01st or Attack 001st.  That way I don't need to do a big renumbering when I pop up to the next order-of-magnitude and want to keep things in a nice order.

John

[Steve Walmsley]

I do the same thing, with two differences:

1)  I hadn't thought of the spaces trick - clever!
2)  I've started adding 1 or 2 leading zeros whenever a number appears in a name, e.g. Attack 01st or Attack 001st.  That way I don't need to do a big renumbering when I pop up to the next order-of-magnitude and want to keep things in a nice order.

John

I do 2) but I hadn't thought of 1) - Good idea!

Steve

[waresky]

Damn trick idea:D

space..eheheh Evil

[welchbloke]

Useful tips, I will be using both in my next game.

[Shinanygnz]

I've taken to adding zz to the front of some TG names, like all my cycling colony/freight runs are zzColony/Cargo <source> - <destination>, e.g. zzColony Sol - Wolf 359
This groups them all nicely at the bottom of the dropdown out of the way.

Stephen