Is the ship in the hanger ?

Can you send a screenshot ?

Full Disclosure: I am completely fresh as this game is concerned, and as such I'm finding basic stuff about the game to be almost incomprehensible. As far as 4x I usually play Civ IV or Master of Orion.

I guess I explained it wrong. It keeps saying that I can't do anything inside the hangar, but I can't tell how to take the ship out of it.

Make sure the ship is highlighted in the right-hand pane (click it a few times to see the difference), then click the little "Ship" in the bar above it (looks a lot like an arrow pointing up at a diagonal, as well). All highlighted ships (up to your max fleet cap at that time) will be sent into orbit at that system. Shift-click and Control-click operate exactly as you might expect ("select all up to this point, from the last click" and "toggle this item", respectively).

Next probable sticking point: If a given hyperlane is too long for you to be able to detect a system on the other side, a likely occurrence at the start of the game, right-click the hyperlane itself to travel along it. If you can see the destination system, however, you can simply right-click that system.

By the way, "Disband" merely sends all selected ships/fleets to the hangar at a given location as individual ships, removing all fleet associations, it does not actually dismantle units. For that, you'll want the little "skull" icon =). Remember, however, that since ships gain experience, upgrading instead of dismantling is often a better idea.

*Very useful, topical hint* While waypoints don't exist in ES2 as such, you can force a ship to travel directly from point A to point B — assuming you have off-starlane travel, that is ^^' — by holding down the Control key while right-clicking. Overriding the normal pathing algorithm like this is useful for surprise attacks, avoiding enemy chokepoints, protecting vulnerable ships (NOTHING can harm a fleet while traveling), and several other shenanigans.

I play games for 20 years but i have trouble figuring out how to colonise. Tutorial simple select ship send to planet. BUT WHY IT HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED?!

how to kick settler in but so it move plenty ships in ship yard GRRRR
and they expect ppl to pay £50 for game

Um... Select your colony ship, have it move to a system with a colonizable planet, preferably with 4 or 5 planets, overall (there should be a good one VERY near to any start), and click the little symbol over the colonizable planet you want to colonize. The Umbral Choir is different, however, and needs an *empty* node that has no planets for its home system.

If you MUST hijack other folks' threads, would you mind being (much) clearer? At least chew fewer marbles while you fume -.-' ...

Originally posted by Marie:

Originally posted by PlainSimpleTailor:

I guess I explained it wrong. It keeps saying that I can't do anything inside the hangar, but I can't tell how to take the ship out of it.

You need to select the ship and click to CREATE a fleet before you can do anything with it. The button is in the middle lower window when you click the ships in the solar system, if I recall right.
This really confused me as well, made the same mistake a number of times.

GOD BLESS YOU, could not find out what im doing wrong.... game tutorial says nothing about losing fleet status when splitting exploration fleet from argosy, spent at least hour or two trying to find out what did i do wrong.