Ressupling Shpis

VolvoxPL · #1 November 13th, 2004, 11:18 PM

HI,
I just started playing Space Empires 4, and i have problem. How to resupply my ships in early game?

Ed Kolis · #2 November 13th, 2004, 11:19 PM

Send them to a planet with a Resupply Depot. You can tell which these are by the fact that they have little R's in the lower right corner on the system map.

edit: oh, and a warm welcome to the Space Empires community!

Randallw · #3 November 13th, 2004, 11:28 PM

If you turn on that option.

Slick · #4 November 13th, 2004, 11:45 PM

Welcome new player! You can also put ships in a fleet. Ships in a fleet share supplies. You can design a "tanker" which has a lot of Supply Storage components to go along with your fleet. Later research "Resupply" to get other goodies. Also researching "Astrophysics", then "Stellar Harnessing" gives some goodies too.

Slick.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 November 14th, 2004, 12:34 AM

Ships also use supply's by (Number of Engines * 10) * Each Square Moved. In other words, if your ship has six engines, those engines use 60 supplies to move one square and 360 supplies to move all 6 squares. 5 engines = 250 supplies used total, 4 engines = 160 supplies used.

This means that for long-range ships, you may want to drop an engine in certain situations.

Colonel · #6 November 14th, 2004, 12:54 AM

If you have pre gold you can fleet bases and ships I think Also someone should point you off to the http://www.pbw.cc/ site multiplayer games if you dont already know this

Arkcon · #7 November 14th, 2004, 01:44 PM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Ships also use supply's by (Number of Engines * 10) * Each Square Moved. In other words, if your ship has six engines, those engines use 60 supplies to move one square and 360 supplies to move all 6 squares. 5 engines = 250 supplies used total, 4 engines = 160 supplies used.

This means that for long-range ships, you may want to drop an engine in certain situations.

Ships also use proportionally more per engine as you acquire faster engines, or get other components to give you a movement bonus. So, at some point in your quest for the fastest ship, you should research storage, to get storage components that hold more.

VolvoxPL · #8 November 14th, 2004, 04:33 PM

Wow, i didnt expected so many answers in so short time.
BIG Thanks

And if my ship is already out of supplies, adding him to fleet with tankers help him? (moving 1 square isn't my dream

Slick · #9 November 14th, 2004, 05:10 PM

Yes, but supplies are shared at the end of each turn so you will have to wait 1 turn to share supplies.

Slick.

Gandalf Parker · #10 November 14th, 2004, 05:32 PM

Fleeting him with any ship that has fuel with help. They will split the total fuel between them. Join and fleet, do turn processing, then split them and send them on their way half-fueled.