Supply Ships

Fyron · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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.

Gryphin · #4 January 25th, 2002, 02:42 AM

I don't know if it is efficient, but I tend to make my supply shipes with the best engines possible. I keep them stratiegicaly located and send them out to join and stay with a fleet when they are dangerously low. When the fleet in question reaches a Resupply station, the supply ship is usualy sepparated making it available for the next fleet that needs it. This works for me but it could be more expensive than other options.

Growltigga · #5 January 24th, 2002, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
I don't know if it is efficient, but I tend to make my supply shipes with the best engines possible. I keep them stratiegicaly located and send them out to join and stay with a fleet when they are dangerously low. When the fleet in question reaches a Resupply station, the supply ship is usualy sepparated making it available for the next fleet that needs it. This works for me but it could be more expensive than other options.

<furiously taking notes> note: see any ship of Grffs' that isn't CTW and looks like a supply ship - vape it <end furiously taking notes>

I follow SJ's design, all my fleet colliers, tanker designs whatever are based on heavy or light cruiser hulls - if only for the ability to pretty quickly retrofit these ships into something combat capable should the need arise - it takes little time to switch between one of these babies and an escort cruiser loaded to the gills with enough point defence to make the most hardened fighter using AI to barf

Generally, I think it is infinitely preferably to expand by building "fleet bases" on small planets ie 3 facilities, 1 resupply, 1 cargo, 1 space yard all built at emergency rates rather than let your fleets run out and become chickenfeed to the first revved up AI with allegiance subverters that comes along

so basically, my colony ships go out with the fleet

Gryphin · #6 January 26th, 2002, 04:29 AM

I can't belive Growltigga took the bate, (or is he just letting me think the took it).
"A Feint, within a feint, within a feint"

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

Growltigga · #7 January 26th, 2002, 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
I can't belive Growltigga took the bate, (or is he just letting me think the took it).
"A Feint, within a feint, within a feint"

[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

I can see through your pitiful plans humble mortal

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