Can space yards (bases) be transported ...

[Baron Munchausen]

I've meant to test whether a repair bay can be placed in a satellite for ages, I just keep forgetting. Has anyone modded it to be possible and done this? Does it work? Or does the game only recognize repair bays in ships?

[ July 02, 2002, 05:23: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Fyron]

Yes, repair bays on Satellites do indeed work.

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, repair bays on Satellites do indeed work.

Yay! So while you cannot build 'portable resupply stations' you can build 'portable repair stations'.

[Fyron]

Yep. Only problem would be getting them balanced. Even with a 110 kiloton component that repairs one comp per turn, these sats can allow a single "ship" to repair many times more than a normal repair ship.

[Suicide Junkie]

What about space yards on sats? Do the effects stack when you have multiple sats?
This could be really cool for making custom production rates, and damage to the sat stack could make for "partial damage" to your space yard rate.

[mac5732]

Baron, your comment brought up a question in regards to supply. I don't remember the weight restriction on large sats off hand, but would it be possible to..

build large sat
put supply pod/s on it
put solar panel on it
build it (it should have full supply)
transport it to another location in a system
launch
fleet a ship or small fleet with it

would it then give supply to that ship or fleet and would it then re-supply itself over time with the solar panel??? thus in essance, creating a portable, cheap re-supply base??

just a curious Mac

[geoschmo]

SJ, You can mod a sat to hold a space yard, but it doesn't get a build queue, and it doesn't add to the build queue of a ships or planet in the same sector, so your idea won't work. The only thing you get for putting a space yard on a sat is the repair capacity if any.

Mac, you can't fleet with sats, so your idea wont work.

Geo

[ July 02, 2002, 19:46: Message edited by: geoschmo ]