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Saved Profiles - FastTrek Docs

Save and load your ship automation profiles for quick access.

FastTrek allows you to save your ship automation profiles for quick access and easy switching between different tasks.

When you have configured a ship automation to your liking, simply click the “Save” button ( ) to save the current profile. You can give it a custom name to easily identify it later.

Saved information includes all settings:

  • Automation type
  • Ship and Crew Fleet Admiral
  • Target location(s)
  • Resource type (mining)
  • Recall conditions
  • Hostile type/level filters (combat)
  • Repeat options
  • Follow-on tasks

You can load a saved profile by clicking the “Load” button ( ) and selecting the desired profile from the list.

Switching automation type

Each dock remembers the last configuration you used for each automation type. When you switch a ship to another type and back again, everything you had set up for that type comes back: location, filters, recall conditions, repeats and the rest.

For example, a ship that mines in a system, then spends an hour as Solo Armada Support, goes back to its old mining system, resource and recall conditions as soon as you select Mine again.

This works without saving anything, and it is separate from your saved profiles. A type the dock has never used starts from the defaults.

Managing Profiles

Profiles are always referenced by name and sorted in alphanumerical order. There are three options for removing a profile from the list:

  • Click the “Open” button ( ), then the “Delete” button ( ) next to the profile in the list.
  • Save a new profile and select “Replace existing”, then select the profile you want to replace from the list.
  • Save a new profile with the exact same name as an existing profile.

To rename a profile, click the “Open” button ( ), then “Edit” ( ).

To edit a profile and save the changes, open it first. Make the necessary changes and click ‘save’. The existing profile will be pre-selected for saving and overwriting.

Follow-on Tasks

Each automation can have a follow-on task configured, by selecting it from the “then switch to …” dropdown at the bottom of the automation settings. Each automation will run its entire course, including all repeats, recalling and repairing, and collecting dailies (if selected), before switching to the follow-on task.

As mentioned previously, follow-on tasks are saved as part of each profile.

This allows for the creation of routines, for example:

  • Using a single ship to mine multiple materials or resources throughout the day.
  • A ‘morning routine’ of hunting Freebooters, V’Ger, plus a Mirror Run, then passive grind the rest of the day.

Creating a mining cycle

For example, we’ll be mining 5* Crystal, Ore and Gas.

  1. Follow-on tasks can only be selected if they already exist. So first of all, we save the same thing (anything) three times using the names 5* Crystal, 5* Ore, and 5* Gas. These are just dummy tasks to make the names available for selection.
  2. Create a mining automation for Crystal, select “5* Ore” as the “then switch to” profile, and save it to replace the dummy “5* Crystal” profile.
  3. Create a mining automation for Ore, select “5* Gas” as the “then switch to” profile, and save it to replace the dummy “5* Ore” profile.
  4. Create a mining automation for Gas, select “5* Crystal” as the “then switch to” profile, and save it to replace the dummy “5* Gas” profile.
  5. Select any of these to start, and the ship will loop through all three materials.