Supply questions

Spyder · #1 February 9th, 2001, 03:00 PM

Opps...spoke before I thought...I hate that...

There isn't a way that I know of to move SUPPLIES. The movement I mentioned above (besides the bowel movement in my brain at the time

) was a CARGO move....sorry

For supplies, you'll just have to 'fleet' the ships together and they'll share supplies.

Paul E. Mason
Senior VMS Systems Administrator

DirectorTsaarx · #2 February 9th, 2001, 09:42 PM

But ships won't share supplies immediately - i.e., you won't get the "increased" movement until the turn AFTER you formed the fleet.

Nitram Draw · #3 February 9th, 2001, 09:52 PM

Should I be able to split the fleet after re-supply? I havn't been able to do that.

raynor · #4 February 9th, 2001, 11:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
The Stellar Manipulation weapon type items are very powerful,IMO. Would it be possible to make them a one shot item instead of allowing them to be repaired, i.e. you would have to retrofit the ship to get the item functional again?

I'm with you!

A cloaked planet destroyer is one incredibly powerful ship!

I don't think the game engine has the capability to 'remove' a component from the ship after it has been used. If that is the case, I would like to humbly suggest that the planet destroying weapon *KILL* everything in that grid. This would destroy the ship as well as any pesky satellites that are probably the reason why I nuked the planet in the first place.

raynor · #5 February 9th, 2001, 11:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
Should I be able to split the fleet after re-supply? I havn't been able to do that.

Try this:

1. Form a fleet which includes your supply ship (or a base since they have infinite supply)

2. Hit End Turn.

3. Now, split up the fleet as you like. The supplies should be equally divided among the ships. If your fleet included a base when you hit end turn, all your ships will be re-fueled.

Nitram Draw · #6 February 9th, 2001, 11:27 PM

Raynor,
I'll try it tonight. Thanks

Nyx · #7 February 9th, 2001, 11:51 PM

On the stellar manipulators, can a modder flag them to always have the marker for forbidden technology? Meaning the one that prevents a non-organic race from repairing a damaged seeking parasite on a ship it stole.

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DirectorTsaarx · #8 February 10th, 2001, 12:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Nyx:
On the stellar manipulators, can a modder flag them to always have the marker for forbidden technology? Meaning the one that prevents a non-organic race from repairing a damaged seeking parasite on a ship it stole.

You'd have to make all the Stellar Manipulation stuff a "racial tech". But then you'd have to set up certain races to have access to the racial tech...

Why do you ask?

raynor · #9 February 10th, 2001, 12:33 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Nyx:
On the stellar manipulators, can a modder flag them to always have the marker for forbidden technology? Meaning the one that prevents a non-organic race from repairing a damaged seeking parasite on a ship it stole.

I'm confused.

I've never been able to repair *anything* on a captured ship. Are you supposed to be able to repair stuff on captured ships?

Nyx · #10 February 10th, 2001, 12:46 AM

Raynor, you're supposed to be able to repair anything you could build yourself. If you can't build it, you can't fix it either. Bu tif you capture a ship with equal or lower tech value, then you can fix it.

Tsaarx, The reason why was in response to the request to find a way to prevent them from being repaired and reused. Look down to Raynor's response to Nitram Draw where Nitram asks about making stellar manipulation truly one-shot items. This was just a quick thought about how it might be possible to do such a thing.

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