Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

These ships that repair components, and these ships that create supply from solar energy.. Do they have to be in the same fleet as the ships they are to affect? I have a few sitting in the same sector as a fleet. They don't seem to be doing much.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

Repair points apply to everything in the sector.

The supply ships, however, only generate supplies for themselves.

Fleets share supplies, so a supply ship in a fleet will, each turn, fill its tanks using the solar panels (not above max), then share with the fleet.
Sharing is on an absolute supply point basis, not percentage.
AKA the "one for you, one for me, repeat till done" system.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The repair ships will repair any ships in the same sector. The supply ships will only share supplies if they are in the same fleet.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

Beat me by a minute!

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

Sweet action.

Is there any way to set a "repeat order" for a fuel truck to take supplies back and forth from the nearest supply depot?

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

No. The best you can do is have it repeatedly move between 2 sectors. You can not have it move to resupply depot, move back to fleet, fleet up, share supplies, unfleet, move to resupply depot, etc. with repeat orders.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

Something about SE4 I actually don't know:

If a ship with solar collectors has less supply capacity than the other ships in its fleet, and the collector ship fills its supplies, with the fleet stop gaining supplies? From the description below, I would expect so.

PvK

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

That would really suck. Say it ain't so.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

Unfortunately, PvK is right. During the turn, solar panels add to the ship supplies and only after that ships in the fleet redestribute the supplies. It is a good idea have a specialized ships with a lot of supply bays and solar panels.

Re: Repair ships, supply ships, n\' such
 

So just make sure that those supply generating ships have larger supply capacities than anything else?