# Setting up standing and conditional orders on fleets **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Questions\ **Created:** [August 8, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/setting-up-standing-and-conditional-orders-on-fleets/976 "2026-08-08T15:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onigato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/848f3c/32.png) [@Onigato](https://aurora4x.com/u/Onigato)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/setting-up-standing-and-conditional-orders-on-fleets/976/1 "2026-08-08T15:05:45Z")
I discovered Aurora from my YT feed and have a question on setting up some Standing and Conditional orders. I have designed and built a couple basic survey ships, and a couple tankers to refuel them out in the deeper reaches of Sol rather than needing to go all the way back into Earth. So, three part question: 1. Is there a way to set up a Conditional order that uses LG: Refuel at Colony AND LG: Refuel from Tanker, with a condition of Fuel: 30% or Less. The hope being “my ship hits 30% fuel, and it goes to whichever one is closer, the colony OR the tanker”. If I put two different Conditional orders whichever one I input first will always take precedence, or the one that triggers earlier will always take precedence. So, Order 1: LG: Refuel at Colony at Fuel: 30% or Less and Order 2: LG: Refuel from Tanker at Fuel: 30% or Less will _always_ trigger the Colony refuel and never the Tanker refuel. Or if I set it up Order 1: LG: Refuel at Colony at Fuel: 30% or Less and Order 2: LG: Refuel from Tanker at Fuel: 40% or Less will _always_ trigger the Tanker refuel and never the Colony refuel. 1. I’ve learned I can Ctrl-Click on actual Conditions, but I don’t know that it is actually working to apply both Conditions to the Order. For example, LG: Replenish at Colony with both Conditions Fuel: 30% or Less _and_ MSP: 30% or Less. I can Add Conditional just fine, Aurora isn’t throwing any kinds of error messages, but the visual representation of the order in both the upper panel and right-most panel shows only LG: Replenish at Colony - Fuel: 30% or Less, which is the question. Did it actually work, and if so how can I know later on that I did set up the Conditional Order? 2. I want to put the tankers out on the “east” and “west” of the system (eventually one in each of the cardinal directions, but that’s for later, I’m proof-of-concepting now), sitting on a pair of Rendezvous Waypoints I created. I can manually send the tankers to their correct RWP, but I want to set up a Standing Order for each fleet to go back to their specific RWP if they ever need to move off-station (even a 5M unit refueling tanker can run out eventually and need refueling, MSP, or overhaul). I can set the MV: Rendezvous Point, but is there a way to designate WHICH Rendezvous point that specific order applies to? 3a) And to genericize the question, is there a way to choose _which_ [Colony/Tanker/Point of Interest/whatever] when setting up a Standing or Conditional Order? Like, I set up a LG: Refuel at Colony - Fuel: 30% or Less order, can I specify “Refuel at Earth and not at Mars, because Mars isn’t producing it’s own fuel and/or MSP yet”? ---
**Author:** ![av\_lle](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/av_lle/32/4051_2.png) [@av\_lle](https://aurora4x.com/u/av_lle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/setting-up-standing-and-conditional-orders-on-fleets/976/2 "2026-10-24T03:36:47Z")
Aurora 4X uses a strict order priority which is top-to-bottom So the answer to the first question is: **No. you can not** You can still try to put the tanker first, but **only** if your fleet is checked jump-capable at the Moment Orders or the tanker is in the same system To answer the second question. **No.** Ctrl-clicking only highlights them in the list. but it wouldnt apply both conditions to a single order slot it only keeps the last selected one if you use Ctrl-clicking The third question: Standing orders for waypoints are generic and cant target a specific named waypoint. Setting Move to Rendezvous Point will always route the fleet to the **nearest** one in the system. ---
**Author:** ![skoormit](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/skoormit/32/341_2.png) [@skoormit](https://aurora4x.com/u/skoormit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/setting-up-standing-and-conditional-orders-on-fleets/976/3 "2026-10-24T12:40:46Z")
> [@Onigato](#): > > 1. … I want to set up a Standing Order for each fleet to go back to their specific RWP if they ever need to move off-station I don’t precisely understand your use case, but it sounds like Fleet Waypoints might get you there: > **[Aurora 4x — Documentation Archive](https://aurora4x-docs.vercel.app/#changelog/fleet-movement/2.6.0/fleet-waypoints)** > > Search Aurora 4x mechanics, official changelogs, and the latest documentation in one topic-based archive. ---
**Author:** ![skoormit](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/aurora4x.com/skoormit/32/341_2.png) [@skoormit](https://aurora4x.com/u/skoormit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://aurora4x.com/t/setting-up-standing-and-conditional-orders-on-fleets/976/4 "2026-10-24T12:43:23Z")
> [@Onigato](#): > > Refuel at Earth and not at Mars, because Mars isn’t producing it’s own fuel You can untick this on Mars: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/aurora4x/original/2X/9/9858e2e6c630657341f811c65f838cbeacb29663.png)