Just got into this game thanks to Quill's Let's Play, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. One thing that is kind of bugging me however is I'm not able to organize my fleets in a manner that pleases me.
Take the following organization as an example:
Fleet Headquarters
1st Survey Fleet
1st SF - Alpha Group
SS Survey 1
SS Survey 2
1st SF - Bravo Group
SS Survey 3
SS survey 4
What I'm wanting to do is use Empty Task Groups as parents for lower level formations. Give an order to a formation and have everything below it comply. This is technically possible, but it starts to get messy when you're giving orders more than one level up the chain. As it currently stands, if I give an order to the top most group, I have to copy it to its subordinate groups, then go into each subordinate group and copy to their subordinate groups, etc, etc. . .
I would love to be able to give an order to an upper level group and have it automatically propagate down the chain (same with default/conditionals as well). It would also be great if you could clear orders in the same way. Also let us propagate default/conditional orders without having to give some other order along with it (I can't seem to do so with an empty orders list).