nah nah i think you may have missed my point... it seemed to me that you were complaining at having to micro your ties... my "hotkey" statement was: select two or three squads of ties" (depending on your fleet) hotkey them to be a group, have them use the potentially useless hunt ability and let them go... use your fleet and let them do their thing -or- dont use the hunt at all.... attack what attacks you if a select group of ships wants to go hide off in the corners of the map, let them, they arent your problem... kill what threatens you, and them go back later to finish them off later