Troops and Supplies??

Atrocities · #1 January 19th, 2001, 01:35 AM

I noticed that too. I am sure its just a glitch that will get fixed in the next patch.

Fighters do use up supplies while in space. I recall loosing my only carrier in battle, and all my fighters were stranded. That sucked.

They all ran our of supplies and as a result, were picked off by the enemy.

DirectorTsaarx · #2 January 19th, 2001, 06:00 PM

So how do you resupply fighters? Same as ships (i.e., move to resupply depot; form fleet with ships that have lots of supplies)? or can you resupply simply by getting picked up by a carrier?

Nyx · #3 January 19th, 2001, 07:55 PM

Fighters resupply by being picked up and launched again. Both by carriers and by planets. Note that the planet does not need to have a resupply depot to resupply fighters. It only needs to load them into carge and then relaunch them.

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Barnacle Bill · #4 January 20th, 2001, 06:51 PM

Fighters also resupply by being in a fleet with other ships that have an on-board supply source (solar panels, quantum reactor). In one game, I created system defense forces by fitting my old frigates with quantum reactors and putting them in a fleet with a wad of fighter. Your "fighter group" then has unlimited range within the system. If you put all the planets in a system building fighter, you can accumulate an aweful lot of them...