Keeping your distance (II)

mac5732 · #1 February 14th, 2002, 09:37 PM

The way I watch supply if you don't have the quantum reactors, I just watch the supply level,
When it gets down to half or almost half of what it started with, I start heading to a re-supply center or send a supply ship out to it.

just some ideas mac

Gryphin · #2 February 14th, 2002, 09:42 PM

Quantum Reactors:
I have not played a game long enough to find them.
What Tech Trees do I have to go down to get them?
Do they take up 1 space?
If they take up one space, are you dead in the water if it gets hit? ER: Dead in space?

[ 14 February 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

mottlee · #3 February 14th, 2002, 09:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Gryphin:
Quantum Reactors:
I have not played a game long enough to find them.
What Tech Trees do I have to go down to get them?
Do they take up 1 space?
If they take up one space, are you dead in the water if it gets hit? ER: Dean in space?

Resupply

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 14th, 2002, 10:10 PM

quote:
Thank you, I could not remember where I saw it. If I did the math correctly, a ship with:
Speed 6 moving at full speed and with no extras has a range of 50 sqares befor it runs out of supply?
Sounds good to me.

In fact, Any ship with Any number of engines, and no extras goes 50 squares before running out of supplies

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derb · #5 February 15th, 2002, 12:36 PM

Nice to know number of squares range from an intellectual point of view but it doesn't help much when playing strategically because crossing a system warp point to warp point is a different distance each time so it is hard to know how many warp points you can cross (and it is sometimes hard to figure out the path your ships will take from one place to another, distant place).

It is interesting to know that range is in squares and not in number of turns - so having faster engines doesn't help as I thought...

Gryphin · #6 February 16th, 2002, 02:06 AM

derb,
The advantage of faster engines is as I belive General Patton put it: "The firstes with the mostest". His language aside, Faster engines can turn the tide of a battle every time.
Yes, you do have to do some careful planning to where you place resupply and using the "Move To". Experiance does make this eaier
Still I understand your frustration.

dmm · #7 February 15th, 2002, 05:16 PM

I believe the phrase "the fustest with the mostest" is part of a quote from a Confederate general. Can't remember which one; it was a lesser-known guy (i.e., not Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson). But Patton probably quoted it, at least in the movie "Patton." And the same basic idea has probably been stated by military strategists since pre-history. It's kind of obvious actually, except to an AI: 5 guys can beat up 10 guys, if they can take on the 10 guys one at a time.

Anyway, slow ships had better have long-range weapons or else fast ships will toast them.