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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.

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.

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.
Ships ▾ (header) opens a dropdown of what pilots declared before joining: Declared ships, Bonuses (command bursts), and Seen on main (ships their main has actually been seen flying). This button is FC-only.

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.
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.
Change FC ▾	Hand ownership to another FC/LS member of the fleet. You become a guest.
Disband	Dissolve the whole fleet (everyone is dropped).
Fleet active banner	After an hour with no roster change you're asked to confirm the fleet is still active. Click Fleet active or it goes to sleep. If you drop and don't return in 30s, ownership auto-transfers to another FC/LS.

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 / B / C — put the guest into a temporary group so they take part in the window split (see below).

8a. Guest groups A B C

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 Group A, B or C. That group now behaves as if that person were in the app. Three letters = up to three different unregistered people.

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 / Penalty on a group — there is no account behind it. Only the fleet owner can create or edit groups; 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.