Ok thnx.

I was headed back to the forums to edit my last post saying i found it but thnx for the reply

<t>Thank you Max.<br/>
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However, somewhere in one of the tips it said that you could assign ships missions. Like you said you can send them to patrol a system with pirates, but that's just the thing, you have to tell them to. in the tip it said something about assigning them certain missions ...

<t>I have looked all over the manual and the help doc and can't find anywhere how to create a 2nd 3rd etc. fleet from the default 1st fleet. I really need this b/c i usually have certain ships designated for certain missions: squadron for anti pirating, squadron for raiding, squadron for attacking ...