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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>The main problem with the supply ship is that when it leaves the fleet it takes back most of the supply points with it.
You can't have a fleet supplied by transports going back and for.<hr></blockquote>What kind of cheap supply ship are you using?

Take a fleet of say 5 Cruisers, 3000 supplies each.
One supply ship with 8000 supplies distributes at least 1000 points to each cruiser, and returns home to get more.
And don't tell me you're using the "My gas tank is twice as large as my engine, and holds the same amount of fuel" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif supply storage components!
A cruiser, 60KT engines, 50KT C&C, leaves 390KT for supply bays. That's 13,000 supplies in standard SE4. Enough to top off 8 or more ships after a long combat.
That's 23,000 for the minimum logical supply bay component.
That's 42,500 in P&N Classic. Enough for one supply cruiser to fill up 12 totally-out-of-supply ships, or top-off 35 combat-weary ships.

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I don't know if it is efficient, but I tend to make my supply shipes with the best engines possible. I keep them stratiegicaly located and send them out to join and stay with a fleet when they are dangerously low. When the fleet in question reaches a Resupply station, the supply ship is usualy sepparated making it available for the next fleet that needs it. This works for me but it could be more expensive than other options.

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I can't belive Growltigga took the bate, (or is he just letting me think the took it).
"A Feint, within a feint, within a feint"

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]</p>

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gryphin:
I can't belive Growltigga took the bate, (or is he just letting me think the took it).
"A Feint, within a feint, within a feint"

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]<hr></blockquote>

I can see through your pitiful plans humble mortal

Gryff - you got to remember I am a lawyer - deceitful, tricky, scheming and untrustworthy are all my middle names (and this response has cost you $50)

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How about I buy you dinner and put you up at my place when you do visit Boston. That is worth more than $50.
By the Way, Have you read Dune? I would think you reconize the quote. We do have the same taste in women, enternatinmnt, and reading material.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gryphin:
How about I buy you dinner and put you up at my place when you do visit Boston. That is worth more than $50.
By the Way, Have you read Dune? I would think you reconize the quote. We do have the same taste in women, enternatinmnt, and reading material.<hr></blockquote>

Yeah, I will take you up on that offer if I ever make it to Boston and rely on the profound hope that you are not cheap and that dinner does exceed $50 in value - I dont do grits

I have read Dune, several times - good book but IMHO the series gets limp after that - I get more of a kick OOT David Weber- Honor Harrington and Terry Pratchett books

Same taste in women?? what? do you mean them having a pulse and/or still breathing - may be so but our ahem, preferences obviously differ - circle the wagons indeed ahem, somebody get a glass of watert for Mac - entertainment? not sure, I seem to recall you are a line dancer arn't you? books? may be

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GT: I guess pizza and a good beer are right out. I'm not cheap. I'm selective.

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Gryphin and Growltigga, how many threads are you guys going to take over? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Imperator Fyron,
Good Point. we really do need to start our own.
Growtigga, please proffer a title for our thread.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Gryphin and Growltigga, how many threads are you guys going to take over? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <hr></blockquote>

fair comment, I am out of here