Supply Ships

tesco samoa · #1 January 22nd, 2002, 07:20 PM

It would be nice if you could transfer supply as you can cargo............... and if you can do this then I have missed a huge time saver.

mottlee · #2 January 22nd, 2002, 07:45 PM

If you build a "Supply Ship" you can not use a Transport to do it if you fill up say a Battle Ship fill it with Supply mods and you good to go...If you Fleet with 1 ship they will go 50/50 the more then it goes down.

Sinapus · #3 January 22nd, 2002, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by mottlee:
If you build a "Supply Ship" you can not use a Transport to do it if you fill up say a Battle Ship fill it with Supply mods and you good to go...If you Fleet with 1 ship they will go 50/50 the more then it goes down.

Actually, you can. Just add a Cargo Storage ability to supply pods with a value of 0. It will be counted as cargo.

mottlee · #4 January 22nd, 2002, 10:08 PM

I was doing it W/O editing anything, but that will work also

Fyron · #5 January 23rd, 2002, 02:13 AM

Or, you could bring a space yard ship along with the fleet. When the fleet is running low on supplies, park it somewhere and build a space station with nothing but the crew stuff. When it is built, put it in the fleet and on the next turn, all supplies will be replenished. Then, you can scrap the station and be on your way. You lose 2 turns doing this, but it would probably take a lot longer to go all the way back to a resupply base. Gotta love the built-in quantum reactors that space stations have!

Andr�s · #6 January 24th, 2002, 05:20 AM

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.

Suicide Junkie · #7 January 25th, 2002, 02:39 AM

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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.

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.