Rally Points in space ??

.. don't exist?

I want to set a rally point to send my ships to. The Go To notebook lets me select from colonies, shipyards, and starbases. But on the first page (with the little map) I can find no way to define a rally point that is just a hex in space. There are directions for controlling the little map on the page, but no way to select a location. Nor can I find one from the main map.

Huh?

I'm playing the Milky Way scenario under 2.33 Base, which seems to have a somewhat antiquated motor in it.

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Publius of NV

Join Date 08/2002

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I'm playing Crusade, so this might not help you, but here goes anyway in case it does:

The fourth icon above the mini-map has what looks like a pair of parentheses over a down arrow, and the tooltip for it says "Create new rally point". Click it, and the mini-map changes to a list of your rally points with a button that says "New". Click the new button, then click on the main map in the hex where you want your rally point. You should now have a rally point.

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IIRC, you could do the same thing with deep space Rally Points in the base game. That was with the latest patch before Crusade.

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DMF

Join Date 09/2002

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AHA! I've finally figured it out! One of the pages of the list area below the mini-map is Rally Points with the icon that Publius described. AFAICT, that's the only place to set a RP, and good enough.

Thanks.

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