Odd Supply Bug/Feature |
Ok,
I was wonding if anyone else has found this odd thing happening. I had just colonized a world, on the boarder of my empire, and had an escort low on supplies. I had queued up a Space Port followed by 2 Resupply Depots. I told the escort to automaticlly get supplied and it went right for the new world and loaded up on several thousands of supplies. I figured the ship should have gone to an already built depot but it has saved me time world hunting. Has anyone else seen this or am I just tired?
--- NightHawk
They can supply non-orbiting ships
Thats what a depot is good for.
So if you have a fleet traveling through the system, the fleet get supplied up to the supply capacity of the depot without ever stopping off at a planet.
The colony ship...
Here is what happened... the colony ship that settled the new planet had extra supplies, and they were left on the planet until your scout ship got there. The resupply depots you had in queue weren't built, and didn't do a thing: they take time to work after you build them anyway. I use this to my advantage, and load my colony ships with supply / ordnance storage for a quick resupply 
Supplies
Depot now allows resupply of ships in-system. A ship will resupply at a world with supplies, these are generated spontaneously as I undestand it.
Resupply
That is correct. The order is actually 'resupply at nearest'. So the ship will definitely go to the nearest.
So: Depots: Resupply all
So:
Depots: Resupply all ships, Bases, Units in the system?
Planets: Resupply those in direct orbit?
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Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Almost covers it completely there...
Yep, Depots do all that, but they also transfer their extra supply/ordnance to other planets in the system, if there aren't any ships/bases/units that can carry more.
One thing I have noticed as
One thing I have noticed as farr as supplies og, you can place more than 1 quantum reactor in a ship. So you make a dedicated resupply ship that creates its own supplies, and therefore can resupply a fleet indeffenately with one ship. of course it blowing up on you in a fight would be bad form lol.
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Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Automaticlly get supplied
From what I have seen if you tell a ship to resupply it will go to the nearest world it can resupplied at, not necessarily the world that you might want it to get resupplied at.