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Atrocities December 3rd, 2003 02:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
If ships are in a fleet, supply levels will be redistributed at the beginning of the turn amongst all ships in the fleet so that they have equal levels of supplies (up to their individual max supply capacity, of course). This requires no special technology. Unfortunately, you can not choose how many supplies each ship gets, but it works well for 99% of the situations you will encounter. Just include some ships with a few Supply Storage and a bunch of Solar Collectors to have them generate supplies to distribute each turn (Solar Collectors generate some supplies for each star in the system each turn).

The Quantum Reactor cheats. It does not generate any supplies, it makes the ship have infinite supplies. So, one ship in a fleet with a QR will make all ships in that fleet have full supplies (up to their individual supply capacities) at the beginning of each turn.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ya, what he said.

And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.

Atrocities December 3rd, 2003 02:27 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
Quote:
Originally posted by PvK:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Loser:
...Is there not an 'issue' where Fighters do not get resupplied by resupply bases on moons?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes. I don't know why he said moons were the "best" places to build a resupply depot.

The fleet method works fine to share supplies. And yes you can gift a tanker to an ally to help them resupply and then they can give it back - I've done that on several occasions.

PvK </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hum, I didn't say they were the best, I said that was the best way. IE you could use any planet you want, but having a supply base near your fleet is the best way to resupply them. Of course you could do what Fyron said, but that did not occure to me until after I posted and by the time I got back here Fyron had already posted it.

Fyron December 3rd, 2003 03:29 AM
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Quote:
And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think you missed the point... I was just saying that it cheats the supply issue and makes tracking supplies irrelevant. I like QR myself, and stick them on all warships. Infinite operational range is great! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Grandpa Kim December 3rd, 2003 04:19 AM
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The quantum reactor, like the universal colony module available in some mods, is a great micro-management reliever. Once your empire reaches a certain level, its just a royal pain in the butt to redirect your fleets to a resupply depot. The QR eliminates this tedious task.

Grandpa Kim December 3rd, 2003 04:23 AM
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And criminy!! Buy the game already! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

If we haven't convinced you by now, we will inform all the spammers not to bother with you! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Atrocities December 3rd, 2003 04:29 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
Quote:
Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think you missed the point... I was just saying that it cheats the supply issue and makes tracking supplies irrelevant. I like QR myself, and stick them on all warships. Infinite operational range is great! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Naw I don't think I missed the point, but your are right in one regard, cheat was the wrong word for it.

And yes, buy the game and tell all of your friends to buy it as well. The more who buy it the better chance we will have a sequal.

(All of you regulars keep quite about the above statement!)

PvK December 3rd, 2003 04:46 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
Yep, buy it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

If you're interested enough to ask all these questions, then I have no doubt you'll enjoy the game.

PvK

[ December 03, 2003, 02:47: Message edited by: PvK ]

Argitoth December 3rd, 2003 06:44 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
i ordered it... TODAY...

sooo ill be getting it like in 5 years or so.

SpaceBadger December 3rd, 2003 07:58 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
Quote:
Originally posted by Argitoth:
i ordered it... TODAY...
sooo ill be getting it like in 5 years or so.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nah. Probably less than a week. I bought mine a couple months ago and it took only three days to arrive by USPS Priority Mail.

SpaceBadger

se5a December 3rd, 2003 08:23 AM
Re: Should I buy it? Help me understand
 
if your interested in playing PBW I may have an opening in a (suposedly) newbe game comming up in a few weeks.


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