I knew I should have kept track of stardates...but well this problem kept occurring over and over. Playing Federation (duh, what else), I bought the GSCR, outfitted her with Vulture II (I need to refresh my memory on what fighters equal F-14 etc) and headed off to neutral space for some fun. Took a nice patrol mission (17). In mission started prepping my shuttles (SS, WW, SP) and fixing all my settings. Then I went to go and launch my fighters.
No fighters in the shuttle display area.
Woops! Did I mess up and not include them? After mission go back to spacedock...get fighters. Yup, they're there now. Go back into mission (patrol 11 I think it was). Check on fighters...nope, none there! Uh-oh. Now, is it just the GSCR or is it all fed ships with fighters? Get another guy who is online as fed (can't remember name atm - i'm at work) and he gets a carrier, launches fighters no problem. Maybe it is ME, so I get a carrier, launch fighters no problem. Get the GSC (no stinkin 'R'), and same problem. So, there you are, I think I found a bug and it's not stardate-related...*sigh*