Maintenance Supplies

[davidr (OP)]

Does anyone know why it is not possible to load maintenance supplies into a cargo ship so as to be able to move supplies between planets/systems , although these same ships can transport the maintenance facilities?

DavidR

[oleg]

Supplies are supposed to be transported by either a ship with engineering spaces or maintenance storage bays!

(some) Facilities and all minerals can be transported by freigthers. It's how the game is designed.

Have fun,

Oleg

[Erik L]

Does anyone know why it is not possible to load maintenance supplies into a cargo ship so as to be able to move supplies between planets/systems , although these same ships can transport the maintenance facilities?

DavidR

Maintenance supplies can't be shipped via cargo. As to why, because that's the way Steve wanted it. Maybe if you can come up with a compelling reason to change, he might.

[Dutchling]

Same for fuel and rockets. It would just be harder to balance tankers/supply ships/etc if regular freighters could handle all the war supplies.

[Erik L]

Same for fuel and rockets. It would just be harder to balance tankers/supply ships/etc if regular freighters could handle all the war supplies.

It would most likely negate the need for them.

[Dutchling]

That's the balance thing, if you would make it balanced (as in: you do need them) freighters would probably be terribly expensive or inefficient compared to what they are now.

[Panopticon]

I dunno, I figured the advantage of dedicated tankers, colliers and maintenance ships was that their resources could be used wherever the ship happens to be. It would make sense to me to be able to load them into cargo bays on freighters and simply not be able to use them until they are unloaded at a planet again.
The dedicated ships have the various loading and transfer mechanisms required to be used on the go, the cargo vessels just chuck em in a hold and seal it up until they reach their destination.

[ardem]

I would have to agree, if they were loaded in cargo and not able to be used ship to ship there would be no realistic reason why it should not be apart of the game, you should be able to ships anything in a cargo vessel it is only a whole space to store things

[skeolan]

Similarly it'd be sorta neat to be able to ship troops on cargo vessels; say, give it the same morale degradation over time as shipping them in drop pods, but without the counter-advantage of being able to combat-drop them.

Imagine ground toopers being packed into makeshift bunk areas inside big open cargo containers along with all their gear and vehicles. . .  not exactly ideal, but it'll do in a pinch!

Hell, why not allow the same thing with fighters too? Run their maintenance clocks while they rattle around inside freighters getting shuttled from one ground installation to another.

[shireknight]

Sorry I can't get my head around maintenance supplies, I built 100 but I can't find them listed anywhere, where are they listed please and what do we use them for?

[Brian Neumann]

You will find the maintenance supplies on whatever colony you built the supplies.  Look at the summary screen (f2) and it will list all the maintenance supplies on the colony.

Brian

[shireknight]

Oh what a moron, yep Earth has 26'100 Maintenance supplies, how did I miss that lol -cheers Brian