[Suggestion/QoL] Promote to fleet/wing commander

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As a player, would you like to have this suggestion implemented as part of vanilla game?

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Yes, with minor changes
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No, but I would like to see the issue addressed (in another way)
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azaghal
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[Suggestion/QoL] Promote to fleet/wing commander

Post by azaghal »

Players create fleets in the game by assigning subordinates to a currently unassigned ship. At that point the assigned-to ship becomes the fleet commander, causing all (direct) subordinate behaviour orders to become "relative" to the said ship. The fleet commander can then also be assigned specific default behaviour (to perform trade, protect an area etc).

In some cases, however, it becomes necessary to assign a new fleet commander. For example:
  • Player wants to assign a better-suited ship as fleet commander.
  • Player wants to repurpose the current fleet commander.
In this process, the player wants to preserve:
  • Fleet name.
  • Fleet commander configured behaviour.
Unfortunately, the player cannot currently manually promote another ship as fleet commander while preserving the fleet name and fleet commander configured behaviour.

It would be useful for the player to be able to carry out this type of action via additional context menu actions:l
  • If player selects a ship, and right-clicks the fleet commander, include the "Replace Fleet Commander" action.
  • If player right-clicks a direct subordinate in a fleet, include the "Promote to Fleet Commander".
  • If player right-clicks an indirect subordinate in a fleet, include the "Promote to Fleet Commander" and "Promote to Wing Commander" actions.
P.S.
Since replacement of fleet commander will be covered by the upcoming 7.50 release, I have decided to strip parts of this suggestion related to that one. I am unaware if the upcoming feature will cover the manual fleet commander replacement as well.

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