Posted by: ZimRathbone
« on: March 03, 2011, 06:54:27 AM »I tend to use 3 types of 1000 ton ships, all with their own (single use) Jumpdrive
(1) Poineer Scout - big passives nothing else - first into a system (in most cases)
(2) Grav Survey, size 1 passives & Grav survey
(3) Planetary survey - size 1 passives & geo survey
very occasionaly a variant of (3) with Hyperdrive equipped engines (for those far multi star systems - more for the purposes of security than anything else). I rarely put more than 1 survey unit on a ship, most of the time is spent in transit from 1 survey location to the next, and I try always to have 2+ years fuel & Maint.
This time around each ship is in its own fleet (apart from 1 group of 5 gravs put together to fast survey a recently discovered NPR junction system that 9 JP two of which connect to my systems, and which at least 2 NPRs have been using - I can see that being annexed with high priority), but in previous games I have used dividing fleets (less micro-management, but more time wasted by individual vessels waiting for the rest of the fleet to finish off surveys & reassemble)
Lately I have been following up grav surveys with the Minelayer - a small corvette with a single size 24 launcher (25% size) which drops off sensor buoys near each JP to give me warning when someone starts transiting my systems
(1) Poineer Scout - big passives nothing else - first into a system (in most cases)
(2) Grav Survey, size 1 passives & Grav survey
(3) Planetary survey - size 1 passives & geo survey
very occasionaly a variant of (3) with Hyperdrive equipped engines (for those far multi star systems - more for the purposes of security than anything else). I rarely put more than 1 survey unit on a ship, most of the time is spent in transit from 1 survey location to the next, and I try always to have 2+ years fuel & Maint.
This time around each ship is in its own fleet (apart from 1 group of 5 gravs put together to fast survey a recently discovered NPR junction system that 9 JP two of which connect to my systems, and which at least 2 NPRs have been using - I can see that being annexed with high priority), but in previous games I have used dividing fleets (less micro-management, but more time wasted by individual vessels waiting for the rest of the fleet to finish off surveys & reassemble)
Lately I have been following up grav surveys with the Minelayer - a small corvette with a single size 24 launcher (25% size) which drops off sensor buoys near each JP to give me warning when someone starts transiting my systems