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Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by cyclone2001 on Sat, 2008-06-14 23:44. Space Empires V General

I'm playing 1.71 w/ BM 1.14a and noticed something that I found odd, but wasn't sure if this was intended.

I have a satellite group of 10 satellites (5 beam sat's & 5 missle sats) with the following breakdown for supplies/ord.

Beam Sats: (500 Supplies, 0 ord)
Missle Sats: (1000 Supplies, 200 ord)

When testing configurations in the simulator, the sat group shows a total reserve of the following for supplies/ord:
Supplies: 7500
Ordinance: 1000

When combat on the simulator starts however each satellite gets 1/10th of those total supplies, thus each satellite has 750 Supplies and 100 Ordinance. However the beam satellites have 0 ord. capacity so the 100 ordinance assigned to them are "lost". This seemed odd because as a result of this distribution each missle satellite starts with 750/1000 Supplies and 100/200 Ord despite there being enough of each originally.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by Randallw on Sun, 2008-06-15 01:06.

I think that's just for the simulator. It can't handle all the supplies so it does something like takes the full supplies for one, or a few, and shares them among them all.

I've got a game with plenty of fighters and in a real fight I've been noticing problems with supplies. Whole squadrons being low, or having none, so it might be in real battles as well. I have plenty of refuelling depots, but there are hundreds of fighters at a time. I don't know how long they can last real combat as opposed to lasting quite a while if they're just flying around.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by cyclone2001 on Sun, 2008-06-15 12:57.

Thanks, I'll pay attention when real combat occurs involving those satellites and see if the supplies/ordinances behave properly.

I play around with the simulator and fighters to see if I see the same behavior with those units as well.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by cyclone2001 on Mon, 2008-06-16 19:13.

I just had my first 'real' combat with these satellites and it appears the supply/ordinance oddity exists in real combat as well. Each appeared with a fraction of the expected supplies & ordinances Sad

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by glockgemini on Mon, 2008-06-16 21:43.

Not just satelites, its fighters as well.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by cyclone2001 on Tue, 2008-06-17 00:28.

Has anyone submitted a bug report on this one? If not, does anyone know the "appropriate" way to go about it? I've heard posting here in the issues forum isn't all the effective.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by BlueTemplar on Wed, 2008-06-18 14:08.

Like I've said before, there's not much chance that supply is completely debugged in 1.74... But at least the most problematic supply bugs are gone!
Mail the bugs to , and update this page : http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Known_Bugs_(SEV) when you're at it.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by cyclone2001 on Wed, 2008-06-18 18:35.

Thanks for the info! I'm going to try and reproduce the problem under 1.74 as the game we were running when the problem was discovered was 1.71.

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Re: Ordinance/Supplies in sat groups

Submitted by lookerbc on Mon, 2008-07-14 06:07.

well anyone have an update to this ?????

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