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General Ship Management Tips
Below are several tips to remember when dealing with your fleet.
How to Permanently Cancel Attacks
If your fleet is attacking a ship you'd prefer to salvage, select your units, hit tilde (which cancels the last command given), and then hit F2 (which sets your units to evasive). Your units will await further commands.
How to Hit-and-Run Attack
You can perform hit-and-run attacks by attacking an enemy unit normally, then hitting the D key to dock your units. Once your units have headed back to the nearest repair ship, reattack the enemy unit. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Assign Your Controller to Guard Your Collector
If you have only one resource collector, assign your controller to guard it. It will follow the collector on its rounds, making your harvest go faster. Collecting resources simply isn't enough, especially in fast-paced multiplayer games. You also need to collect the resources quicker than your opponent.
Cloak Your Grav Wells
If you use a grav well, assign a cloaking unit to guard it. Now your grav well can sneak around more easily and surprise enemy fighters.
Group Your Cloaking Units
If you can afford it, put your cloaking units in groups of three or more so they can take turns cloaking each other while the rest recharge.
Retiring a Damaged Group Is OK
If you decide to retire units, don't worry if they are damaged. Damaged units put as many resource units (the money system in Homeworld) in your coffers as do healthy ones.
Scuttling
One seldom-used feature is the ability to self-destruct your ships at any time. Known as scuttling, this action must be performed twice to blow apart your own ship (the first time serves as a warning to make sure you really want to do it!). Though it appears on the surface that you wouldn't have much use for the ability, there will come a time when you'll want to destroy your own craft. For instance, if you notice your powerful capital ship almost within the grasp of enemy salvage corvettes, you're better off self-destructing the ship than letting your opponent steal its use. Be sure you have no way of retrieving the ship (you can still destroy the salvage corvettes dragging away your ship). It's a last resort, but if it prevents your opponent from using your own ship, it's worth it.
Self-destructing your own ships also causes damage to any ships within the blast radius. Consider this when using the scuttle as an offensive weapon. For instance, if a horde of enemy strike craft are on attack runs against your destroyer, and you're about to die with no hope of escaping, wait until the fighter formation passes over the destroyer, and scuttle the ship. You were going to explode anyway; you might as well try to take out some of the enemy as well.
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