Repair ships, supply ships, n' such

[Litcube]

These ships that repair components, and these ships that create supply from solar energy.. Do they have to be in the same fleet as the ships they are to affect? I have a few sitting in the same sector as a fleet. They don't seem to be doing much.

[Suicide Junkie]

Repair points apply to everything in the sector.

The supply ships, however, only generate supplies for themselves.

Fleets share supplies, so a supply ship in a fleet will, each turn, fill its tanks using the solar panels (not above max), then share with the fleet.
Sharing is on an absolute supply point basis, not percentage.
AKA the "one for you, one for me, repeat till done" system.

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Litcube:
These ships that repair components, and these ships that create supply from solar energy.. Do they have to be in the same fleet as the ships they are to affect? I have a few sitting in the same sector as a fleet. They don't seem to be doing much.

The repair ships will repair any ships in the same sector. The supply ships will only share supplies if they are in the same fleet.

[Captain Kwok]

Beat me by a minute!

[Litcube]

Sweet action.

Is there any way to set a "repeat order" for a fuel truck to take supplies back and forth from the nearest supply depot?

[Fyron]

No. The best you can do is have it repeatedly move between 2 sectors. You can not have it move to resupply depot, move back to fleet, fleet up, share supplies, unfleet, move to resupply depot, etc. with repeat orders.

[PvK]

Something about SE4 I actually don't know:

If a ship with solar collectors has less supply capacity than the other ships in its fleet, and the collector ship fills its supplies, with the fleet stop gaining supplies? From the description below, I would expect so.

PvK

[Litcube]

That would really suck. Say it ain't so.

[oleg]

Unfortunately, PvK is right. During the turn, solar panels add to the ship supplies and only after that ships in the fleet redestribute the supplies. It is a good idea have a specialized ships with a lot of supply bays and solar panels.

[Litcube]

So just make sure that those supply generating ships have larger supply capacities than anything else?