Suggestion for Behavior of Mine Sweeping Fleets

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When a fleet contains a scout that is set to auto mine sweep, the target priority of the fleet should be mines first.  What I am experiencing is having to micro the mine sweeping fleet.  If I use gardas, they want to run off after any new strike craft that is spawned instead of mine sweeping.  If I use carriers with fighters, same behavior. I lost 40 lrms in one battle when they went chasing a trade ship that had entered the grav well on the otherside of a mine field.  :D

I would really like them to concentrate on the mines so that I can concentrate on the rest of the battle.  If for some reason I want them to tear off after that one new spawned strikecraft, I will micro that instead of clearing the landing zone for my frigates.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

That's what the individual ships' attack stances are for. If you leave them on grav well, they'll go chasing anything. If you set them on local, they'll only auto-target something that gets near, and with hold they'll only shoot at what's in range.

So you can set the fleet leader on on grav well, and the rest of the fleet on local or hold, then they'll never target stuff way out there.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks, I did start using hold for jumping into grav wells with mines, but if I have the mine sweeping fleet leader the scout set on grav well, and other frigates in the mine sweeping fleet set on local, will the fleet follow the scout from mine to mine clearing the whole mine cluster, or will I need keep manually advancing them through the mine field?

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