Is there a way out of this?

[oleg]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
... build troops on every single planet. 240 planets means 24 troops on them.

surely other way around

[gregebowman]

Tesco, how do you order your ships to pick up, repeat, then pick again? I can't remember if there is some sort of way to program the ships or not. It would come in handy in one game I'm playing right now, where I'm sending population from a fully developed world to a new colonized world and I want to build up the population. Is there a way to tell the transports to pick up a population, ferry them to this new planet, then return to the original planet to restock?

[tesco samoa]

Ment planets with 240 kt space should have 24 troops on them... You know what I mean...

[tesco samoa]

with fleet selected.

click on planet to attack.

then click load cargo ---- troops

then click on planet to attack

then click load cargo --- troops

repeat.

[Fyron]

Just be careful. If a ship is filled and encounters an order to load cargo, all orders will be cleared. Assuming simultaneous movement game, this leads to it doing nothing else on that turn.

[Loser]

Can you use the Load Cargo order with a Fleet selected?

[Fyron]

I believe so... I am not sure whether SE4 treats the fleet as one cargo source together or each ship individually when determining whether the fleet loses the rest of its orders or not. I would hope it gets treated as one source, so you do not lose your movement guaranteed if you have ships with no cargo space in the fleet.