http://store.steampowered.com/app/70900/?snr=1_4_4__13

Played the demo. Very tempted at 80% off.

Anyone played it much?

great game. my favorite space 4x game of all time

I just played the demo, one thing puts me off...hunting down ships I built to put into an existing fleet. It difficult when my fleet is orbiting a planet, and the newly built ship from that same planet is obscured by all the other ships.

Can you tell me how to make built ships automatically join a fleet? I might just buy it at this price.

I bought it, and it has been very enjoyable so far - $4 is no-brainer really.

Richardg - not sure, although I have found a few tips in that area already:

- A new Carrier contains 24 or so fighters, so that's a quick way to build up a fleet.

- If you 'band select' a bunch of ships and press 'J' it will join them with the nearest fleet

- If you right-mouse on a ship of any sort you get an action to select 'all of this type' - an easy way to join all crusiers to a fleet etc.

Lots of info here too:

http://starruler.blind-mind.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Star_Ruler_Manual#Fleet_Management

Plus it seems there are some very ambitious mods that increase the fleet side (as well as other sides too):

http://starruler.blind-mind.com/mods/view/2

Edit: Good grief, some of the mods look great: http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?board=12.0

yes I often use the right-click "select all of this type". also you can right click the star and click "select all combat ships" and all fighting ships in the star system will be selected.