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Can anything be done to modify auto ship selection!

In my current game I have allot of DD's currently being refitted so there is mixture of ships with damage from 0 to 19 and when I form a task group using the auto selection (I use it because it cuts down on some of the micromanaging), it seems to select ships with damage in the teens even though there are plenty of ships with 0,1,2 or 3 damage. This is also the case for auto convoys with transports.

Could something be written into the auto ship selection routine to limit the max damage (say 5 or 6) that a ship can have before it can be auto selected into any task group?

That's part of the reason why I don't use auto-selcetion. The other part being that on my cargo task forces, it tends to use ships with either insufficient endurance, or ships that would be best suited to warship escort instead of the appropriate convoy escorts.

Unless it is an emergency I like to build into the OP-PLAN enough time to get SYS damage down to 0 before leaving port. This helps if you are trying to get multiple TFs to travel together.