Supply bug?

[sapperland]

I am playing the Demo.
I built a ship at a planet that did not have a supply depot. The ship was constructed with zero supply. So I sent another ship over to join with non-supplied ship. The next turn no supplies were past to the unsupplied ship. I then built a supply depot at the planet and still no supplies are given to the ship, however, other ships passing over the planet do get supplied. What can be done to get this ship some supplies?

[LintMan]

When you say you had a ship join with the 0 supply ship, do you mean you put them both in the same fleet? That should have made them share supply.

What is the max supply on the ship with 0 supply? Have you built that same type of ship successfully on other planets?

[sapperland]

Yes I did make the ships join in the same fleet. And yes I did make the same ship type on other planets which already had a supply depot and they were supplied.
One thing to note, The first ship built at a planet w/o a supply depot gets supplied. It was the second ship built that gets no supply.

[LintMan]

Definitely sounds like a bug to me.

Do you still have the savegame? Send it to Malfador support with a description of the bug and hopefuly they'll fix it.

[rdouglass]

If I'm reading this right, you need to move the non-supplied ships off the Supply Depot then back on. I believe the resupply operation is performed upon ENTERING the sector with a supply depot. So, if you built your ship first, then your SD, it did not happen 'cause you did not ENTER the sector, you were already there.

Resupply does seem to have a few bugs. I've found that if you retrofit a ship with a Quantum Reactor (from a ship without one), you will have Zero supplies untill you pass over a Supply Depot. You can't even merge it with a fleet that has supplies to share.

It seems that a ship built or retrofitted ending up with Zero supplies, you have to do an initial resupply at a Supply Depot. At least I think that's how it works. I have tested a little of this theory by doing the following:

1. Have 2 ships identical 5 engines and no additional supply storage. No other components seem to matter. At a Space Yard but no Supply Depot (or even a ship with repair bays for that matter).

2. Retrofit 1 ship with just a Quantum Reactor added. When retrofitted ship still shows supplies left (because of supplies in engines).

3. Retrofit 2nd ship w/ Quantum Reactor AND all new engines. When retrofitted ship shows Zero supplies. Then see above solution for resupplying ship.

Anyone else experience anything like this??? If so, could someone forward this to MM / SG???

[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 20 November 2000).]

[General Hawkwing]

Did the ship have engines? If so then it would have supplies when built.