Hello,
In the beginning of this game, before many patches, ship orders used to be persistent.  I'm thoroughly confused at them now.  I keep having to reissue guard and sentry.  Hell I don't even know the difference between them.  When I toggle autoattack, NOTHING happens under my ship, like it used to.  It used to say autoattack onder the ship.  If I hit autoattack if flies to the nearest star base and parkes there.. HMMM!   Or it flies to the nearest plantet and bonzai suicides into it.
What I am looking for is a way to park my ship over a tradeline, and have it pickoff freighters, w/o me clicking orders each turn to do it.  How do you do that?  Thanks.