ship is out of supplies.. question

gwichman · #1 December 19th, 2001, 07:15 PM

I have a few ships that i just unmothballed. They come out of being mothballed with no supplies, even though they are sitting on a planet with resupply depots.

my questoin is, do i need to park the ship there another turn (this is a MP simultanious movement game) or can i move the ship this turn and expect the ship to pick up supplies before it leave?

this is an order of operations quesiton. Doest a ship get supplies first before movement or after? I suspect i need to leave the parked another turn :-\

Growltigga · #2 December 19th, 2001, 07:51 PM

I have never seen any ship come out of mothballs needing supplies.

In my experience (which isnt much), the only time this could happen is if you retrofit the ship and dont allow it to fully complete repairs before you mothball it, in which case it comes out of mothball in the same state you put it in ie in need of repair and out of resources

Hope this helps

Mudshark · #3 December 19th, 2001, 08:08 PM

You are right, The First turn your ship will not have supplies. The second turn you will have full supplies.

gwichman · #4 December 19th, 2001, 08:14 PM

thats interesting as thats completely counter to what i just observed. I had 3 ships that i mothballed. All were 100% healthy and full of supplies when i mothballed them. Now this Last turn i unmothballed all 3 ships. 2 were on planets that had both shipyards and resupply depots. All 3 have 0/3000 supplies. Thus as far as i'm concerned, a mothballed ship has 0 supplies when you unmothball it.

Running the latest SEIV patch.

Spyder · #5 December 19th, 2001, 08:18 PM

Yep, that's been my experience too.

I've also noticed that you have to leave them at the planet for the current turn (the one on which you un-mothballed them) so that they can gain supplies.

I've also made the mistake of mothballing a ship at a planet without a resupply facility

[ 19 December 2001: Message edited by: Spyder ]

Growltigga · #6 December 19th, 2001, 08:38 PM

this is well weird - just done this on my SE IV (1.49 patch) game and an unmothballed ship comes out of mothball immediately with full supplies - no need to wait a turn

naturally, this is at a planet with a resupply depot

have I got the 1.49 patch Kazakstani Version or something?

Spyder · #7 December 19th, 2001, 10:20 PM

Growltigga...do you have solar collectors or the <whatchyamajigger> that resupplies your ships? If so, I'd imagine that ships would have supplies all the time.

capnq · #8 December 20th, 2001, 12:38 AM

Another possibility is that unmothball behaves differently in simultaneous than it does in turn-based, like a number of other things.

Growltigga · #9 December 20th, 2001, 11:05 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
Growltigga...do you have solar collectors or the <whatchyamajigger> that resupplies your ships? If so, I'd imagine that ships would have supplies all the time.

Aaah, you have just answered that mystery. I was beginning to think that I had a 'rogue edition'. You are dead right, I do have solar collectors on my ships (not much longer - I have just discovered ECM I) - that probably explains it.

I'll try mothballing the little darlings tonight after I have retrofitted the solar collectors out of the design

Regards