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So, i like the game, i have legends and consider buying shadows, however there was 1 thing that made me stop playing it.

When my game goes into later stages, and i want to build a bunch of new ships for a new fleet, i have to scroll through my entire warship list and pick them up one by one in order to asgin them to a fleet.

i know this has been mentioned before and i wonder if shadows now sports a 'select fleet' function in the construction screen. it would fit in there perfectly and it drives my crazy that i have to scroll and search each time i build a new ship.

especially since i play on 1920x1200 and suffer from the way to small fonts.
(i cannot change the resolution to solve this problem becaus only on natural res, the display is sharp)

greetings

As long as it is all for one fleet, it is not hard at all to put them to fleet. It is a few clicks. I recently wrote this on the same subject, so I just paste it here.

If you want to order 12 frigates and 4 destroyers to make two 6/2 fleets try this: Use the build order screen to order one at a time 6/2. Then 6/2 more.

Then open the ship list, and filter military. Your new ships should be at one of the ends (front or back) with each batch. So the first (or last) 8 is the first fleet, the next 8 the last fleet. StarLab (I think) gave a nice demo of this in his first very manual lets play.

The thing I do is sorting military ships on firepower. The newly ordered ones have 0, and no other military ship has this. This is not so practical if you order many fleets at once, though. Since I use almost no non-fleeted ships, sorting the military on fleet is also handy. If you have carriers with no weapons, and like the military strength sorting, give the poor carriers a gun

Sometimes I can do massive orders, and abusing system sorting and looking for the orange ones kind of works too. I may order multiple fleets at different spaceports, but all fleet members at the same one, and the sort by system method is only a mess if there is a whole lot other military ships in the system.

tnx for the tipp.
i tried using the filters, however i missed the 'sort by firepower' switch. Sounds reasonable

the second thing i noticed in my last game of legends was performance issues.
iam not talking about general slowdown, the game ran pretty smooth until i stoppped.
however when i engaged the long planned war and send my main fleet in the heart of my opponent, the battle caused the fps to dropp drastically. i think it was about 50-60 ships maybe more, batteling it out.

my cpu is a E8400 dualcore overclocked to 4 GHZ.
so while i understand that battles that szise are a big cpu drain, i hoped it would perform a bit better.
i heared that shadows will have performance improvements so i wonder if it would help in case of bigger battles

greetings

Shadows has a new graphics engine. Better performance is the main gain. I have not noticed significant performance issues in legends, but massive, old galaxies does make things a bit snappy.

I have not repeated my 160 destroyers thing from ROTS, that did not work at all back then

haha, the 160 destroyer thing

well, in my recent legends game (wich i quit because of ship asign problems and battle lags) i was about to hit the 100 ship in my main fleet thing.

but my battlelags may have come from the mods i have running.
the graphics enhancement mod in particular ? Its just, i like it so much, i cannot go without it anymore

greetings