Can somebody point me to an explanation on how to train a TG?

[Foolcow (OP)]

There's no such order on the Task Group screen, and I can't find such an option anywhere.

[jseah]

On the second tab of the taskgroups screen (special orders and organization). 
Near the bottom left of that tab, there is a button called Task Force Training, or something like that. 

You need to create a Fleet Headquarters and assign someone with an operations bonus to Operations before they get TF experience.  IIRC anyway. 

[EarthquakeDamage]

You'll also need to set a waypoint somewhere in the system.  I usually drop one in the middle of the star.

[Shadow]

You'll also need to set a waypoint somewhere in the system.  I usually drop one in the middle of the star.

No, you needn't do that.

[Thiosk]

I didn't know about this operations bonus thing.  My force seemed to be getting trained just by having captains with crew training on all the ships.

Question:  If I have a task group, and its trained up, and merge with it an untrained ship, that single ship will perform poorly in the fleet action but not diminish their companions, yes?

[Erik L]

I didn't know about this operations bonus thing.  My force seemed to be getting trained just by having captains with crew training on all the ships.

Question:  If I have a task group, and its trained up, and merge with it an untrained ship, that single ship will perform poorly in the fleet action but not diminish their companions, yes?

If you have the option checked on the combat screen to sync fire it will.

[Shadow]

What influences the speed of TF training is the individual ships' COs Crew Training Bonus (and possibly his Operations bonus, if any), followed by the Task Force's (not TG's) commander's. All modified by the Task Force's Operations Officer's Operations and Crew Training bonus.

[EarthquakeDamage]

No, you needn't do that.

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I used to get error spam if I had no waypoints.  Steve must've changed that, I guess.

[Shadow]

Task Force Training was never a "targeted" task, as far as I can remember.

[EarthquakeDamage]

It never required a target, but if the system had no defined WPs it'd get pissy.  I don't recall if it involved pop-up error messages or just spam on the event list (which may or may not be viewable without SM mode).

[dooots]

It was a bug that got fixed in 5.1 or 5.2.

[Charlie Beeler]

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I used to get error spam if I had no waypoints.  Steve must've changed that, I guess.

That was a v5.11 bug that was fixed in v5.13

[Thiosk]

My task group is training what feels like really slowly.  Like, way faster than the advancement of my technology.  I have a 25% operations officer-- is this just too crappy to expect solid results?   My maintenence clock on some of these ships is 3.5 years.  And they have a 50% TF training and on average a 20% grade bonus.

Is this just par for the course for a first-fleet?  Would you take them on a sortie in this condition?

My plan was to train them up higher, roll back their clocks at home, and then take them out to see how they fare against some aliens, but this is taking seriously forever.

[Caesar]

Try assigning a high-training task force commander, instead of someone with a training bonus on operations.
The task force commander provides everybody with the full training bonus.

[jseah]

It's very strange, but I have a few new ships fresh out of the yards, and they have -7% crew grade bonus.  Anyone know why this is?