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Exactly what it says in the title. A bit annoying.
I have found that sometimes a fleet will remember its name when a ship is added but sometimes not.
Highly annoying, especially since any new ship I design now is an invisible black square in the shipyard and in the fleet box.
If you add a ship to a named fleet....check the named one first and then on second task the single ship's one. Then hit join... 
Ships auto-join fleets they land on. I don't see a setting to change this.
Ships auto-join fleets they land on. I don't see a setting to change this.
Agreed, unless Skukkuk is simply providing a strat to make sure you remember the fleet name prior to it being 'defaulted'. Seems kinda in the 'duh' category tho.
With respect, not exclusively. Remember if you send a stack of ships which are exceeding the limit. Then you manually join ships into other fleets.
Stardock should probably set a flag that says "this fleet was manually named", then preserve that name no matter what happens to the fleet. Or let us designate a particular ship to be the fleet commander, and attach the name to it.
Personally, I don't bother naming fleets as we:
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