Supply Ships

[Suicide Junkie]

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The main problem with the supply ship is that when it leaves the fleet it takes back most of the supply points with it.
You can't have a fleet supplied by transports going back and for.

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What kind of cheap supply ship are you using?

Take a fleet of say 5 Cruisers, 3000 supplies each.
One supply ship with 8000 supplies distributes at least 1000 points to each cruiser, and returns home to get more.
And don't tell me you're using the "My gas tank is twice as large as my engine, and holds the same amount of fuel" supply storage components!
A cruiser, 60KT engines, 50KT C&C, leaves 390KT for supply bays. That's 13,000 supplies in standard SE4. Enough to top off 8 or more ships after a long combat.
That's 23,000 for the minimum logical supply bay component.
That's 42,500 in P&N Classic. Enough for one supply cruiser to fill up 12 totally-out-of-supply ships, or top-off 35 combat-weary ships.