Satellites and CSMs in 0.99

[General Hawkwing]

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Originally posted by Blue Lord:
I like the idea of puting Quantum Reactors on satelites. They'd be mobile resupply bases that you just dropp of.

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IIRC a satelite has unlimited supplies, like a station, then you don't need a QR. Just merge them with the ship, wait a turn and unmerge. I'll take a closer look and get back to you.

[wingte]

quote:

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Originally posted by General Hawkwing:
IIRC a satelite has unlimited supplies, like a station, then you don't need a QR. Just merge them with the ship, wait a turn and unmerge. I'll take a closer look and get back to you.

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I tried this one and it does appear to work,, but,, it isn't picked up by the resuply minister so you are left manually watching your fleets and ships and moving them arround.. UUGGHH



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Wingte

[Taqwus]

Uh-oh. Allowing resupply via satellites... um, breaks things. If I understand correctly, you can do the following...

a) You can build satellites on turn 1, IIRC, even on low tech -- it's now "free" in the default setup.

b) Have one satellite bay per fleet. Store at least one satellite in it.

c) At the end of every move where you're running low on supplies, launch the satellites and merge fleets.

d) Then, at the beginning of next turn, pick up the sats (now you're at full fuel...) and continue on your merry way.

So, basically, you have an extremely low-cost, portable Quantum Reactor (Resupply level *5* IIRC, and it's not a cheap tech or component...) that you don't need to even research. It requires some MM, but only rarely -- you only need to do this when supplies, say, reaches the halfway point or so. Errrrrg.


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[Master Belisarius]

Taqwus: although I can understand your argument, remember that you can use one ship as resuply ship, using a quantum reactor...
then you get the same effect without satellites.

[Baron Munchausen]

I've never been able to get a satellite added into a fleet. Bases, yes. This lets you give a base a "support squadron" that will never run out of supplies. But I have tried and have never got it to let satellites be included in a fleet. Have you _tried_ this yet? I'd be surprised if it worked.

[Jubala]

I've tried with the 0.99 demo. It doesn't work.

[General Hawkwing]

I see you managed to test this idea before I could. No it does not work. It makes sense that it would not due to size differences and as mentioned would greatly imbalance the game. Next time I'll test then speak.