Should I buy it? Help me understand

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
If ships are in a fleet, supply levels will be redistributed at the beginning of the turn amongst all ships in the fleet so that they have equal levels of supplies (up to their individual max supply capacity, of course). This requires no special technology. Unfortunately, you can not choose how many supplies each ship gets, but it works well for 99% of the situations you will encounter. Just include some ships with a few Supply Storage and a bunch of Solar Collectors to have them generate supplies to distribute each turn (Solar Collectors generate some supplies for each star in the system each turn).

The Quantum Reactor cheats. It does not generate any supplies, it makes the ship have infinite supplies. So, one ship in a fleet with a QR will make all ships in that fleet have full supplies (up to their individual supply capacities) at the beginning of each turn.

Ya, what he said.

And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by PvK:

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Originally posted by Loser:
...Is there not an 'issue' where Fighters do not get resupplied by resupply bases on moons?

Yes. I don't know why he said moons were the "best" places to build a resupply depot.

The fleet method works fine to share supplies. And yes you can gift a tanker to an ally to help them resupply and then they can give it back - I've done that on several occasions.

PvK

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Hum, I didn't say they were the best, I said that was the best way. IE you could use any planet you want, but having a supply base near your fleet is the best way to resupply them. Of course you could do what Fyron said, but that did not occure to me until after I posted and by the time I got back here Fyron had already posted it.

[Fyron]

And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.

I think you missed the point... I was just saying that it cheats the supply issue and makes tracking supplies irrelevant. I like QR myself, and stick them on all warships. Infinite operational range is great!

[Grandpa Kim]

The quantum reactor, like the universal colony module available in some mods, is a great micro-management reliever. Once your empire reaches a certain level, its just a royal pain in the butt to redirect your fleets to a resupply depot. The QR eliminates this tedious task.

[Grandpa Kim]

And criminy!! Buy the game already!

If we haven't convinced you by now, we will inform all the spammers not to bother with you!

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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And yes, many of use feel that the QR is a cheat and opt to not use it.

I think you missed the point... I was just saying that it cheats the supply issue and makes tracking supplies irrelevant. I like QR myself, and stick them on all warships. Infinite operational range is great!

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Naw I don't think I missed the point, but your are right in one regard, cheat was the wrong word for it.

And yes, buy the game and tell all of your friends to buy it as well. The more who buy it the better chance we will have a sequal.

(All of you regulars keep quite about the above statement!)

[PvK]

Yep, buy it!

If you're interested enough to ask all these questions, then I have no doubt you'll enjoy the game.

PvK

[ December 03, 2003, 02:47: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Argitoth]

i ordered it... TODAY...

sooo ill be getting it like in 5 years or so.

[SpaceBadger]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
i ordered it... TODAY...
sooo ill be getting it like in 5 years or so.

Nah. Probably less than a week. I bought mine a couple months ago and it took only three days to arrive by USPS Priority Mail.

SpaceBadger

[se5a]

if your interested in playing PBW I may have an opening in a (suposedly) newbe game comming up in a few weeks.