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Explore - Ship will move in a spiral shape to uncover a certain specified radius of a sector.
Update Trade Offers - Ship will fly around a sector and update station trade offers. Note: as the ship is moving and isn't constantly updating the entire sectors trade offers at one time some stations information is inaccurate until the ship passes it again.
Collect Drops - Ship will collect specified drops in an area. (can be set up to collect, legal, illegal or trade/mining wares)
Mine - Ship Mining ship will mine for resources in a specified region.
Deploy At Position - Ship will deploy a specified deployable satellite, lasertower, etc) at a selected location.
Trade Orders
Trade With - Ship will trade with a station/resupply ship (monetary transaction).
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Attack - Ships(s) will attack their commanding ship/station's target?. (this order is quite handy for getting S ships to swarm capitals)
Interception - Similar to attack?Ship(s) will attack hostile fighters (S/M) ships near its commander. (this order is suitable for keeping light nimble fighters away from destroyers and carriers)
Resupply For - Resupply ship(s) will buy wares to resupply and repair their commanding ship's fleet. When not trading for wares the resupply ship will try to fly with the fleet.
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Dock And Wait - Ship will dock and then wait at a specified object.
Explore - Ship will move in a spiral shape to cover a specified radius of a sector.
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Fly to Object - Ship will fly to a specified object (can be ship/station/gate etc) and then wait. In the case of a ship it will follow the ship.
Fly and Wait - Ship will fly to a specified point on the map and then stop and wait.
Hold Position - Ship will maintain current position either docked or undocked. It is the default behaviour for newly built/captured ships.
Revisit known stations - Ship will fly between stations in a chosen sector, dock at them temporarily, and then proceed to the next station. (It is most useful for leveling up pilots).
Trade
Find Build Tasks - Builder ship will fly slowly around the galaxy looking to build NPC stations.
Distribute Wares - Ship (recommended for L traders) will buy a ware en masse from a specified whitelist at a station and sell it in smaller amounts to stations/resupply ships.
Plunder - Ship will attempt to attack NPC trade ships forcing them to drop their cargo and will then collect the cargo (cargo drones required) and take them back to a station. (the effectiveness of this command is uncertain and will undoubtedly get the player in trouble with faction police).
AutoTrade - Ship (recommended for M/S traders) will buy a ware from a specified whitelist at a station and sell it to a station/resupply ship.