Ally ship designs

[Suicide Junkie]

Maybe you should mod in a Range-1 long range scanner for your resupply depots. When the allies come to get supplies, you get a close-up look at 'em.

[DirectorTsaarx]

I thought a Partnership treaty was supposed to allow access to allies' ship designs...

[PvK]

It does, if and when they enter combat with anyone.

It would be pretty weird if Military Alliance gave all designs, because it's really a "resupply treaty" - there would be no way to allow foreign ships to supply at your depots without revealing ALL ship designs, which would be a huge concession and wouldn't make much sense.

Personally, for SE5, I'd like to see treaties consist of mix-and-match conditions rather than hierarchical levels.

PvK

[Baron Munchausen]

I wish that Military Alliance was also a 'repair' treaty... wouldn't it be great to be able to repair at an ally's shipyard as well as restock supplies? Sure, you couldn't get 'racial' technologies repaired, but the game is smart enough to not let you repair those on captured ships either. So this can be accounted for.

[ August 06, 2002, 20:14: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Suicide Junkie]

I imagine that in that case it would be best if repairs were done on your ally's turn, and that the foreign ships would default to lowest priority (fix your own ships first)

[Puke]

it would actually be cool if with a repair treaty, racial techs and unknown techs COULD be repaired.

I recently had the opportunity to poke my head inside some F-16s that were under repair. one of them was one that we had sold to Egypt.

wouldn't it be cool if you could sell advanced tech to an ally, and then sell him repair services for it? sure, you can trade it back damaged and then trade it back repaired, and maybe thats a better way of doing it.

oh well. my two inconclusive cents.

[Suicide Junkie]

sure, you can trade it back damaged and then trade it back repaired, and maybe thats a better way of doing it.

That's what I'm doing in P&N on PBW. However, I don't charge for the repairs (covered under syndicate ship owner's insurance)