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Old November 13th, 2004, 11:18 PM

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HI,
I just started playing Space Empires 4, and i have problem. How to resupply my ships in early game?
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Old November 13th, 2004, 11:19 PM
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Send them to a planet with a Resupply Depot. You can tell which these are by the fact that they have little R's in the lower right corner on the system map.

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Old November 13th, 2004, 11:28 PM
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If you turn on that option.
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Old November 13th, 2004, 11:45 PM
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Welcome new player! You can also put ships in a fleet. Ships in a fleet share supplies. You can design a "tanker" which has a lot of Supply Storage components to go along with your fleet. Later research "Resupply" to get other goodies. Also researching "Astrophysics", then "Stellar Harnessing" gives some goodies too.

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Old November 14th, 2004, 12:34 AM
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Ships also use supply's by (Number of Engines * 10) * Each Square Moved. In other words, if your ship has six engines, those engines use 60 supplies to move one square and 360 supplies to move all 6 squares. 5 engines = 250 supplies used total, 4 engines = 160 supplies used.

This means that for long-range ships, you may want to drop an engine in certain situations.
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If you have pre gold you can fleet bases and ships I think Also someone should point you off to the http://www.pbw.cc/ site multiplayer games if you dont already know this
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Ships also use supply's by (Number of Engines * 10) * Each Square Moved. In other words, if your ship has six engines, those engines use 60 supplies to move one square and 360 supplies to move all 6 squares. 5 engines = 250 supplies used total, 4 engines = 160 supplies used.

This means that for long-range ships, you may want to drop an engine in certain situations.
Ships also use proportionally more per engine as you acquire faster engines, or get other components to give you a movement bonus. So, at some point in your quest for the fastest ship, you should research storage, to get storage components that hold more.
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