[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by mac5732:
Baron, your comment brought up a question in regards to supply. I don't remember the weight restriction on large sats off hand, but would it be possible to..

build large sat
put supply pod/s on it
put solar panel on it
build it (it should have full supply)
transport it to another location in a system
launch
fleet a ship or small fleet with it

would it then give supply to that ship or fleet and would it then re-supply itself over time with the solar panel??? thus in essance, creating a portable, cheap re-supply base??

just a curious Mac

First, you cannot fleet satellites with ships. If you ever managed to do it, you found a bug. I've never seen it happen but then I haven't tried in ages bebause I know it's not supposed to work.

Second, satellites are like bases. They don't need supplies or supply generating components. If you could fleet them with ships they would resupply them automatically without any special components. That's how it works with bases. But in the forthcoming patch you'll have to set something in SETTINGS.TXT to allow fleeting ships with bases.