Posted by: Jumpp
« on: October 29, 2012, 01:42:57 PM »Standard transit.
It's most likely that first one. My Task Group contained a 10,000-ton military ships both with and without jump drives, and 60,000-ton civilian ships both with and without jump drives. I expect it failed because the military ships lacking jump drives got grouped with the civilian jumpships on account of those having the larger jump drives.
So with that mystery solved, I'm left with what's probably a much simpler problem: How to protect civilian ships on interstellar runs?
Suppose I've got a 60,000-ton civilian ship with a jump drive, and I want to send it three systems away. As guards I'd like to assign a small fleet consisting of a 10,000-ton cruiser with a jump drive, a 10,000-ton cruiser without a jump drive, and two 5,000-ton frigates without jump drives.
I can't group them into a single TG because the military ships without jump drives will try to group with the civilian ship and the whole thing will stall at the first JP.
I can put all the military ships in a separate TG and assign that TG to follow the civilian ship, but then every time the civilian TG jumps I have to manually set the military TG to clear/jump/follow. That's doable, but it's exactly the kind of tedium that one likes to automate.
This seems like the kind of thing people would do all the time. There must be an easy way to do it. Is there some way to detail one TG to follow another TG even through jump points? Do people use only jump-capable escorts for civilian ships?
As for mixed task groups the problem is that it groups the largest non-jump ship with the largest jumpships. Either that or you have more ships than your jump drive can handle.