Hmm.. funky resupply

[Phoenix-D]

Little something occured to be in a PBW game.

Putting one ship with a quantum reactor in a fleet resupplies the entire fleet, yes?

Well, quantum reactors say "Endless" when you check their supply. Guess what else says endless? Bases.

Yup, it works.

Phoenix-D

[BeeDee10]

This is how I build "resupply facilities" in systems that don't have any planets. It's nice to throw in a shipyard for such bases too, and then you've got a completely self-sufficient forward base. Excellent for those maximum-obscuration nebula systems, you can have a fleet sustain operations in there forever. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

A lot of AI put a Quantum Reactor on bases which is dumb (already endless), but also on some sats which could be clever for resupply, IF the sat was the Sensor Satellite, AND IF the AI was smart enough to drop them one per system cloaked in uncolonized systems, AND IF the Resupply Minister was smart enough to use them by combining the sat with a fleet needing resupply for one turn, AND IF also smart enough to remove the sat from the fleet next turn so that it could move onward. But the AI is not that smart, so just do it if you are a human. Quantum reactors are expensive if put on more than one or two ship designs. Sensor Satellites are no maintenance and cheap and needed anyway. Bases are expensive and require a base yard ship to build them remotely and pay maintenance....

[capnq]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>AND IF the Resupply Minister was smart enough to use them by combining the sat with a fleet needing resupply for one turn<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>AFAIK, satellites can't join fleets. When I create a new fleet at a planet with ships and satellites in orbit, and hit the Add All button, only the ships join the fleet.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Phoenix-D]

LCC: Yeah, but if you've got defensive bases parked on WPs already...

Phoenix-D