• Summary / Title: Disband button on fleet panel will move all ships to hangar instead 
• Description: on the fleet panel, the "Disband" button will actually move all ships in the fleet to the hangar of the current system, instead of actually disbanding. The tooltip of the "Disband" button actually describes moving the ships to the hangar. 
• Reproduce: Have a fleet in a owned system. Tested with United Empire on tutorial and normal campaign.
• Reproducibility: 5/5
• Expected Behavior: Either this button should serve for disband or moving to hangar. In either case, there should be another button somewhere for the other action. In other words, there should be a button for "Disband" and a button for "Move to hangar".
• Version: latest as of 20/11/2017
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I think this is actually intended functionality, and is just a little unclear with the wording. 

As far as I can tell, the "Disband" button isn't disbanding the ships, but rather disbanding the fleet - that's why it's in the center box (fleet management) as opposed to the right one (ship management). I agree though, the word choice could lead to confusion.

There is a button for what you're looking for, the "Sell" button all the way to the right. I believe it is only available in your own systems though.

Well, actually I believe that the button name "disband" does not match its functionality. Disband, conceptually, should completely eliminate the unit/fleet. That is the expected behaviour for that action in typicall strategy/4x games. On the other hand, there is clearly the need to move a unit/fleet to the hangar of a system so that action also needs to be on the interface. 

Additionally, the sell button should also exist on its own because it's behaviour is different than disband. Selling will move the item to the marketplace, I believe, with a dust profit for the player. The player might not want to put that unit in the marketplace because other players might then buy it, possibly getting units with capabilities that weren't accessible to them originally. So the player might want to disband, sell or move to hangar. All 3 distinct actions make sense to me.

Hello :)

As stated in the thread, it's indeed not a bug!

I recommend you bring this discussion to the Game Design forums:)

Cheers,

dis·band

disˈband/

verb

verb: disband; 3rd person present: disbands; past tense: disbanded; past participle: disbanded; gerund or present participle: disbanding

1. (of an organized group) break up or cause to break up and stop functioning.

   synonyms:

   break up, disperse, demobilize, dissolve, scatter, separate, go separate ways, part company "the unit was scheduled to disband"

   antonyms:

   assemble

Hello again :)

Using your example I can say the Fleet has been broken up, dispersed, demobilized (...) and the Ships were stored in the Hangar.

I'll pass your suggestion on to the writers though.

Cheers,