[Tomgs]

My exploration ships always have supply storage thats why they are exploration ships. There is no room for that in Colonizers unless you drop the cargo unit which isn't a good idea. My frigates have 2 supply storages and my destroyers have 2 to 6. The first technology I research is cargo so by the time I build my first ship I have supply storage II at least. That gives them a much bigger range, almost as far as a colonizer can go one way 4500 supplies for 2 storage level II vs 2500 on a colonizer. I can go many systems away with my destroyers usually by the 2nd year at least (in my current game I got destroyers with supply storage III designed in 1.2 years low resources 3 planets to start) they have 9000 supplies with supply storage III. Yes the colonizers only have to go one way but they can be a waste of resources if they are going at 1 movement so I make sure they have a destination before they start on that one way trip.