What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[AL]

Maybe he's playing with maintenance off?

[ExChairman]

The Terran Federation is exploring outwards, but after finding 13 systems and one hostile race we have only 2 possible systems with warpholes, need to survey them first... But so far there seems to be a small chance that the Federation only will find 13 systems...

[ChildServices]

My current empire. The RNG decided to bless me with an amazing chokepoint to defend my core systems from at Procyon.

Anybody got any way of simplifying the management of survey fleets? I can do it well enough when I've only got one, but now I have three.

[Viridia]

You forgot your maintenance life.

Al's right, I'm playing with maintenance off. I only rarely play with it on, to be honest.

[AL]

Anybody got any way of simplifying the management of survey fleets? I can do it well enough when I've only got one, but now I have three.

I use the default and conditional orders in the F12 screen:
set primary orders to survey next 3 system locations (Grav survey)
optionally set secondary orders to survey next 5 system bodies (Geo survey if your survey ships have both sets of sensors)
and set the conditional order to refuel at nearest colony if fuel level is below ~30%
I've got something like 8 survey fleets out doing their business on the fringes of known space and this keeps things running really smooth.

Al's right, I'm playing with maintenance off. I only rarely play with it on, to be honest.

Even so, you'd probably want to at least have enough MSP stored to carry out one or two Max Repairs.

[ChildServices]

I use the default and conditional orders in the F12 screen:
set primary orders to survey next 3 system locations (Grav survey)
optionally set secondary orders to survey next 5 system bodies (Geo survey if your survey ships have both sets of sensors)
and set the conditional order to refuel at nearest colony if fuel level is below ~30%
I've got something like 8 survey fleets out doing their business on the fringes of known space and this keeps things running really smooth.

What there needs to be is a conditional order that tells it to return to its superior formation when all bodies are surveyed.

[Steve Walmsley]

What there needs to be is a conditional order that tells it to return to its superior formation when all bodies are surveyed.

That might cause a problem if the superior formation is still surveying

You can use return to entry point and absorb sub-fleets in same location to get the same effect.

[ChildServices]

You can use return to entry point and absorb sub-fleets in same location to get the same effect.

Thanks! I'll do that.

[ChildServices]

So my campaign is Freespace themed and the first thing I see in Ross 128 is shipwrecks.

[ty55101]

So my campaign is Freespace themed and the first thing I see in Ross 128 is shipwrecks.

Well looks like you get to deal with some war mongering races. Have fun .

[Bughunter]

My battle fleet just left it's tanker behind and split up in two halves to investigate two distant systems where wrecks were observed by survey vessels. Since the Wolf incident fleet policy has been to let military ships scout any system where wrecks are found before survey is resumed.

[GodEmperor]

So my campaign is Freespace themed and the first thing I see in Ross 128 is shipwrecks.

Obligatory link :

 

Time to roll out those Hecate class Destroyers man.

[ChildServices]

Decided to send every single one of my beam fighters at an enemy gate construction ship that I encountered. Hilarity ensued in the events log when I killed it:

[MarcAFK]

how many fighters and how long did it take to bring down?
I've used anemic low tech gauss armed light fighters to take down unarmed enemy freighters. It takes hours.

[ChildServices]

48 fighters. The ship died in a single volley.

Edit: Guys do I have this jump-point blockaded? I'm not sure.