Steve -
I don't know if I am not understanding how the Tactical Intelligence window works, or if it is not working correctly, or if it is working correctly and is just cumbersome.
This is for my 6 Powers campaign, which is using version 3.11. For the most part I ignore the tactical intelligence screen, because I have five major powers in constant contact, and keeping the intelligence screen updated would take too much time. When I get ready to fight a battle, that is when I update the intelligence screen as follows:
1. I acivate at least one active sensor for at least one five second interval;
2. After the sensor is activated I open the tactical intelligence screen, select the appropriate race (the anticipated opponent), then begin looking through the classes listed there for the entries which contain current contacts;
3. Once I find current contacts I then rename the class to an appropriate name which will reflect what the race actually knows about the contact, and which will be useful on the system map screen. For example, for the Japanese I might name the Soviet Kirov class cruisers "Sov CA";
4. Once I've named the class, I renumber the contacts using the new name, so that the contacts will show up on the system map as Sov CA-001, and so on.
This works fairly well, and in the past it hasn't taken much time to rename the classes and the ships, however, I've kind of run into a problem. I followed the above procedure for two of the human governments to prepare for a battle, but after step 1 when I began step 2 I found numerous single ship classes listed on the Tactical Intelligence window, and only a few classes with multple ships listed. This in spite of the fact that the government I was looking at had only four classes of warships in current contact with the enemy, and a few civilian ships in orbit over earth. Maybe six or seven classes of ships in all, but the other side had twenty-thirty contact classes listed, most with only a single ship for that class.
Aurora is obviously listing ships of the same class as suspected different classes. Is there any way I can merge classes on the Intelligence Window or force Aurora to identify them as the same class?
Kurt