BUG:Quick supplies from fighters

john · #1 September 10th, 2001, 04:11 PM

Since fighters get full supplies whenever they are launched and can be grouped into a fleet, a carrier that is running short on supplies can launch it's fighters into space and fleet with them. After 1 turn the supplies are shared by the fleet and when
the fighters are recaptured the carrier's supply storage is full again.

Fixing this will probably require re-doing the whole fighter supplies rules. E.g. have fighters get their supplies from the carrier, rather then from thin vacuum, but then probably one should add to fighter bays a supply capacity on top of their cargo capacity.

Puke · #2 September 10th, 2001, 09:28 PM

this could be toned down by reducing the supply storage and useage of fighters, so its not as handy. if it was hard to get a benefit from it, people would probably just build solar collectors instead.

also, if you take a construction ship with you, you can just plop down empty bases to fleet with, and they give you endless supply.

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dmm · #3 September 10th, 2001, 10:02 PM

Wow, that's clever! Take note, all you futurists out there -- it'll be a LONG time before an AI thinks of something like that.

john · #4 September 11th, 2001, 02:10 PM

IMO the spirit of the game is that Supply Depots and Quantum reactors generate unlimited supplies, solar collectors and emergency supply pods generate limited supplies and that's it. Any other way to generate supplies is a bug and needs to be fixed.

Puke · #5 September 11th, 2001, 06:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by john:
IMO the spirit of the game is that Supply Depots and Quantum reactors generate unlimited supplies, solar collectors and emergency supply pods generate limited supplies and that's it. Any other way to generate supplies is a bug and needs to be fixed.

i agree.

dmm · #6 September 12th, 2001, 05:19 PM

Well, obviously you've discovered a bug. But it makes me think: in the old days, cavalry were often used as foragers to keep an army supplied in the field. Of course, this didn't make the locals feel very welcoming. In fact, from the peasants' point of view, one of the scourges of war was that NO armies were friendly.