Topic: The Magic of Scroll Lock

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Something I had forgotten about, but which proves exceptionally useful in Squadron Commander, is the use of Scroll Lock.

Go into the Fleet Control screen, and then press Scroll Lock.   You can now go to your energy screen, shield reinforcment screen, or any screen you want, and the fleet control panel will remain at the bottom of your screen.  This is very useful when you have six starships to control but you want to adjust your energy priorities or start laying t-bombs.

(By the way, those mine-laying PF's are starting to annoy me!  Not that I'd ever admit one killed me tonight.....)


*WARNING*  *WARNING*  *WARNING*   Do not ever enter a mission with scroll lock on.  Always turn it off as the mission ends, or before taking a new one.  If you enter a mission with scroll lock already activated you seem to crash.  Wait until the mission starts, then turn it off again.

-S'Cipio the Fleet Leader

[Seanner]

It is very cool indeed, and I think you can hit scroll lock whether you have fleet control up or not.

No more max range fusions from your great wingman.

[Braxton_RIP]

All you actually have to do is hit it twice, and it saves them, and then you don't need to hit it anymore.  Once saved, the settings autoload at the begining of the mission.

[Julin Eurthyr]

All you actually have to do is hit it twice, and it saves them, and then you don't need to hit it anymore.  Once saved, the settings autoload at the begining of the mission.

S'cippy's talking about the "original" use of scroll-lock, which is to be the hotkey to call up the fleet-control panel.

One press of scroll-lock, without pressing shift or control, turns on the bottom (controls) and side (fleet formation) functions of the fleet control panel, while leaving the upper MFD "free" for normal use.

As Squadron Commander uses fleets extensively, you might want access to the various controls.  Things like forcing your wingmen to fly in formation, fire on your target, only fire when you click on a little red target button that corresponds to their ship, use ECM, etc. etc.  Also, if you want to fly in say an Echelon formation (cheap PFs protecting your leader PF), or the line formation (so that each PF gets a shot on the target in an overrun), etc. etc.

By doing this via the scroll-lock button instead of the fleet controller button in the upper MFD, you get those panels without the list of ships in your fleet taking up the entire MFD...

[Braxton_RIP]

lol, That never did work on mine, but then again, mine was always f'ed up.