Copy order

[SpaceMarine4040]

An order where a ship copies all orders issued to the targeted vessel, if ship B is told to copy ship A's orders and you tell ship A to escort you they both will, same with mining, salvage. Why so that you can have a a battlegroup of similar vessels that do similar things, or a mining fleet that is easier to control.

Alternatively, allow fleets to be created, fleet has jump range equal to average jump range of all members (or remove lowest jump range ships if fleet leader has enough docks and longer jump range). allow the fleet to be given orders, and roles within fleet. Roles being fleet defense, and main order (salvage or mining).

[FuryoftheStars]

So, I +1'd this, but based on the wording of your suggestion, did you know that you can actually select multiple ships at the same time and that then giving the orders applies to all?

 

However, this is still useful if say ship B in your example was busy doing something else when you gave the orders to ship A, or ship B hadn't been created yet, etc.

 

I do like the fleet suggestions, but may be good for a separate suggestion?  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was already a fleet suggestion here somewhere.