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FC guide — running a fleet, accepting pilots, keeping windows in line.

This guide assumes you already know the basics from the Pilot guide (login, adding characters, declaring a ship). Here we cover everything an FC does on top of that.

Contents

0. Requirements — read this first
1. Start or join a fleet
2. Accept pilots from the queue (owner)
3. Reading the roster
4. Managing a member
5. Fleet composition & declared ships
6. The "5+ windows need a bonus" rule
7. Owner controls
8. Guests (unregistered EVE members)
8a. Guest groups A–Z
9. Gauge, Log, Admin, Overlay, sounds

0. Requirements — read this first

For window counts, waitlist auto-invites, Kick/Ban-from-EVE and Align Fleet to work, the app needs ESI access to your real EVE fleet:

You must be logged into the app with the character that is the in-game fleet boss.
That character must actually be the boss of the EVE fleet (form the fleet in-game).
Log in granting the fleet read + write scopes (the login already asks for both — just accept). If actions silently do nothing, re-login.

Without this the roster still works, but the "actual / in-fleet" numbers and all EVE-side actions won't.

1. Start or join a fleet

Button (setup screen)	What it does
New Fleet	Create your own named fleet and become its owner. Your fleet gets a 60- or 120-window cap. You see the shared waitlist and accept pilots into it.
Enter Fleet	Join the shared queue as a guest. You can be picked up by another owner and then help command their fleet (Kick / Ban), but you don't own it.

Several named fleets can be up at once; there is one shared waitlist for all of them.

2. Accept pilots from the queue (owner)

Waiting pilots appear in the Waiting list on the left of your roster, with the number of windows they bring.
Click ✓ to accept a pilot into your fleet.
If you're the in-game boss with write access, clicking ✓ also auto-invites their assigned characters into the EVE fleet.

A sound plays when someone new enters the queue, and repeats while anyone is still waiting.

Reserve

The reserve is pilots you have set aside: they take no windows, have no place in the split and are not dropped from the queue after 30 minutes. The Reserve list sits under the queue and only the fleet's owner sees it.

● on a queue card sets the pilot aside. If you are the in-game boss, all of his characters are invited into the EVE fleet, into squads Waiting 1 → 2 → 3. There they count neither as windows nor as guests.
Right-click a main's row in the roster → Move reserve moves a pilot who is already in the fleet into the reserve. His windows are freed; his characters stay in the game and move to Waiting 1
Hover a card in the reserve: the roster shows in yellow who would remove (−N) or add (+N) windows if that pilot were accepted.
✓ takes him from the reserve into the fleet, as from the queue. ↩ returns him to the shared queue (to the end, with a fresh 30 minutes).
When the fleet is handed over, the reserve goes to the new owner; when it is disbanded, the pilots return to the shared queue.

3. Reading the roster

Each member is one row (their main) with a caret ▸ to expand their alts. Columns:

Column	Meaning
Max	Windows assigned to that member by the fair split.
In fleet	How many of their characters are actually in the EVE fleet now, plus how many windows to add (+N) or remove (−N) to hit the assigned number.

Mismatch: if a member is off-target, their main nick turns red with a badge — add N (needs more windows) or remove N (too many). Green/red dots show which characters are actually in the EVE fleet; the small ship icon shows their current hull.

Badges & role tags: MAIN ALT SPONGE SCOUT CYNO, plus role badges (FC / LS / Admin) and an FC★ on the fleet owner.

4. Managing a member

RE Invite — on the main row re-invites all their characters into the EVE fleet; on an alt row re-invites just that one. Skips characters already in the fleet.
Kick — removes the member from the fleet and pulls all their characters out of the EVE fleet. (You can't kick the owner.)
Ban — same EVE removal plus a site ban (their whole character pool is denied login).
Scout / Cyno — mark an alt as a utility window. Marked characters are excluded from the window count and split.
Right-click a character → Select main character or Mark as sponge.

A sponge fills leftover seats and is the first to be dropped when the fleet is tight. Scout/Cyno marks and role changes are logged (see the Log).

5. Fleet composition & declared ships

Fleet composition panel (top of the roster) shows the actual hulls undocked in the EVE fleet right now: Mains, Alts, and Boosters, each with a live count and names on hover.
Which ships each pilot can fly is shown in Fleet Preview at the bottom of the FC view.

6. The "5+ windows need a bonus" rule

Any member running 5 or more windows is expected to bring a bonus. If they declared neither a command burst nor a booster ship (e.g. Sleipnir), you'll see:

an amber ⚠ next to their main, and
a header pill ⚠ N next to the In/Out counters — hover it to list who.

7. Owner controls

Control	What it does
60 / 120 (end of the gauge)	Toggle this fleet's window cap. The fair split water-fills to that number.
Align Fleet	Bring everyone in line with the split: members holding more windows than assigned have their surplus alts kicked from the EVE fleet (from the end of their list). The fleet creator and any boosters are never touched.
Ignore Waitlist	The fleet owner's toggle in Fleet Preview (red=off, green=on), off by default. While on, a pilot who presses Enter Fleet comes straight into your fleet, with no Accept; turning it on also takes in everybody already waiting. If several fleets have it on, the one raised first takes the pilots.
Self Invite	Toggle (red=off, green=on). While on, every member gets an Invite button to pull their own characters into the EVE fleet up to the cap.
Moveme	Toggle in the fleet's button bar (red=off, green=on). While on, every member gets a Moveme button: a pilot puts his main into any squad in game (as a member or as squad commander), presses it, and all his alts in the game fleet move into that squad. Only his own alts — nobody else's. Once a minute per pilot; 5 presses within 6 minutes and the button is gone for that pilot for good, with a red line in the Admin Log.
Characters ▾	FC and above. Tick which of your characters fly, right in the fleet: the same list as on the character screen. The split counts the new number of windows at once.
Organize	In Fleet Preview. Organize the fleet before undocking. The squads must already exist and be named in game the way every FC builds them: wing `WL` (`Waiting 1`…`Waiting 3`), wing `DRONE` (`D-1`…`D-5`), wing `DPS/LOGI` (`Turrets`, `LOGI`). The second layout is understood too: `DDD #1`…`DDD #5`, `Logi #1`/`#2`, `Turrets #1`/`#2`, `Waiting`/`Waiting 2`/`3`; the app tells which of the two a fleet uses from its squad names. Other squads (Sponges, MIX, CYNO and the like) are left alone. The button seats pilots by their ship: drone boats (Rattlesnake, Alligator and the Claymore/Nighthawk boosters) go to the D-squads, 10 each (only the D-squads have a cap; the others take any number); D-squad commanders are turrets: Huginn/Rapier first, then Loki, then any other turret (Sleipnir, Khizriel, Vargur); a commander's own drone boats go into his squad first; one pilot's alts are spread over as few squads as possible; a fleet commander on a turret (Rapier, Huginn, Loki or any other) counts as `D-1`'s commander: his drone boats go into D-1, he himself stays in the fleet commander seat, and D-1's commander seat is given to nobody else. A fleet commander on a Basilisk also stays where he is; Basilisks go to `LOGI`, the remaining turrets to `Turrets`; whoever does not fit, and off-format ships, stay where they are; the fleet commander is never touched and nobody is put on a wing commander seat. It reports how many were moved and which squads it could not find. Only the first press in a fleet seats everybody. Drone boats assist their drones to their squad commander, and a pilot who does not notice he was moved keeps assisting the old one. So later presses seat only newcomers: nobody already in a D-squad is moved (even one the pilot moved there himself), and new drone boats go where most of the same pilot's alts are. A full re-seat is a separate choice in the confirm — pilots then have to re-assist. New invites go to `Waiting 1` (the next squad if the game refuses).
Auto Organize	A switch in Fleet Preview (red = off, green = on). While on, every invite (Accept, Invite, Self Invite) goes straight into the squad the Organize scheme gives the character, by the ship he was last seen in: drone boats to the D-squads next to their pilot, a turret to a free D-squad commander seat or to `Turrets`, a Basilisk to `LOGI`. Pilots already in the fleet are not touched. Unknown ship or no room — `Waiting 1`, as usual. If a pilot changed ships, fix it with Organize.
Fleet Preview	Advice on the fleet's composition, opened by the Fleet Preview button in the fleet's button bar, shown under the roster; every FC of the fleet sees it. It updates by itself within a couple of seconds when somebody joins, leaves or changes ship. Two modes. Best roles — which main ship each main should take: D-squad commanders (one per 10 drone boats, priority Huginn/Rapier, then Loki, then Sleipnir/Khizriel), logistics (fewer than 3 cannot start, 3 — light site, 4 — medium, 5 — heavy, more is a spare), everybody else in Turrets. A pilot's ships come from one source: what he declared at entry; if he declared nothing, what he was seen flying in a fleet (marked `seen`); if neither, what he passes by skills (marked `skills`). Red lines are what is missing; the Queue block names who in the queue would close a gap. Once the fleet is in the game, the columns follow the game squads: a commander who leads a D-squad in the game stays on it, and that squad's drone boats are listed under him. The number in brackets in the heading is the drone boat count: green when it matches the plan, red `(now / plan)` when it does not. Yellow rows marked `← Waiting 1` are who still has to be dragged into the squad and where he is now; these are the same seats Organize would give. Organize now — how the fleet would be seated if Organize were pressed right now: who moves where, who has no room, which squads are missing in the game. The Organize button is here too. If you have already seated the fleet by hand, press Accept: nobody moves, and later Organize presses seat newcomers only. Moving pilots: in either mode click a pilot to select him, Ctrl+click to add more, and drag the selection onto a squad column (or onto its commander's line for the commander seat): they move there in the game fleet. Only the fleet's owner can move. The ⧉ window shows the same over the game, dragging included.
Change FC ▾	Hand ownership to another FC/LS member of the fleet. You become a guest.
Disband	Dissolve the whole fleet (everyone is dropped).
If the FC drops	Not back within 5 minutes and ownership auto-transfers to another FC/LS member (highest rank first, ties by who joined earliest). If the previous FC returns within 15 minutes of that and has not left the fleet, the fleet goes back to them by itself. While the FC is away the site reads the game fleet through whichever member holds the star. There is no longer anything to confirm: the hourly "is this fleet alive?" prompt is gone, because the ESI poll of the real fleet already answers it. A fleet auto-ends only when nobody has the app open and EVE says the fleet is gone (15 minutes) or empty (2 hours). Bringing it back up within 5 minutes resumes the same fleet — same start time, same entry in the statistics.

8. Guests (unregistered EVE members)

Characters that are physically in your EVE fleet but not registered to any app account show in a Guest list. There you can:

Toggle the 👁 eye to mark a guest as a scout — excluded from the count.
Kick the guest out of the EVE fleet.
Right-click → Group A–Z — put the guest into a temporary group so they take part in the window split (see below).
Main + alts — only on a guest the database already knows (the owning pilot is written in grey after the name). One press puts all of that pilot's guest characters into the first free group, their main first.

8a. Guest groups A B C … Z

A guest still occupies real seats in the fleet, but the app can't split windows for someone who isn't in it — so their windows silently eat into your cap. A group fixes that: right-click a guest in the Guest list and pick a group letter (A–Z). That group now behaves as if that person were in the app. 26 letters = up to 26 different unregistered people; the letter menu becomes a grid.

The group appears as a roster row at the very bottom, expandable to its characters, with the usual Max / In fleet and the add N / remove N badge.
It takes part in the fair split: its Max is the number of characters you put in it, and it competes for windows like any pilot (window priority applies). Tell the person their number on comms — they have nothing to install.
Grouped characters leave the Guest list, and every one of them wears its letter badge A next to the nickname.
Invite on the group row pulls its characters into the EVE fleet, up to its assigned count. Kick removes them all from the EVE fleet and dissolves the group.
Align Fleet trims a group like any pilot: surplus characters are kicked from the end of the list, the first one is protected like a main.
Right-click a character in the group → move it to another letter, or Remove from group to send it back to the Guest list.
Scout / Cyno marks work on group characters too (a marked window is excluded from the count, as usual).
Groups are temporary: they exist for this fleet only and are gone after a Disband or a server restart. There is no Ban / Boost on a group — there is no account behind it. The fleet owner creates and edits groups, and so do admins and testers in the fleet; other FCs see the rows and the numbers.

9. Gauge, Log, Admin, Overlay, sounds

Gauge (top): assigned / actual-in-EVE, then 👁 scout+cyno count, the bar, and the clickable 60/120 cap.
▸ Лог / Log (owner spoiler under the roster) — role/mark changes and fleet join/leave events.
Admin tab (LS+) — pilot directory, ban list, role log, admin log.
Overlay ⧉ and the 🔊 volume work as in the pilot view.

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