Using ship components from within a fleet

[rdouglass]

I used the "tanker" approach before, but I find far better success with researching "Stellar Harnessing" (I think) and got some solar collectors. Outfit your tanker with these and not Supply units. You would be amazed at how fast a cruiser with Solar Collector III's on board can fill up a fleet when parking for 2-3 turns in a trinary star system!!!!

As for the emergency pods - I never use 'em so I don't know how they work in SE4. Used to use 'em in SE3 but since they (SE4) have solar collectors as an early tech in SE4, I haven't even bothered with 'em. I only research Resupply to get to the Quantum Reactor.