Posted by: ollobrains
« on: February 18, 2012, 04:43:53 AM »I think the maintence faiclities-maintence supplies need a rework anyway or some expansion and streamlining
PS - they'll suck the maintenance resources when you overhaul them. Overhaul uses maintenance at a multiplied rate - I think it's 4x to match the rate at which the clock unwinds. TANSTAAFLActually, I don't think so.
(FYI, I train the whole fleet together. Including coillers and troop transports, of which there are only 5 so far. The slow speed of my support ships keeps fuel costs of training down. Almost nil in fact since the troop transport doesn't have engines... XD)This is arguably a bug/exploit that Steve should probably fix - I'm pretty sure it wasn't intentional (unlike the fact that FAC/fighters don't suck fuel while training in hangar bays). The major expense for training is fuel; one shouldn't be able to cut this cost to zero by sticking a speed-1 ship in the mix. A previous version of this exploit that Steve did fix was to set your TG to 1 before starting training.
- My logic is that I don't want to spend BP building engines for ships that spend alot of time idling in orbit. Government cargo, colony, jump gate construction and troop transports do not have engines. I attach tugs to them when I need them. The tugs see far more use than the ships themselves.Yeah!!! This is a strategy that I've long advocated/used (albeit only for ships that spend lots of time idling, unlike cargo/colony ships).
sloanjh:
I might as well train them anyway. Some TF points is better than no TF points and when they're out training, they aren't sucking resources for maintenance.
Yes, my fleet is big enough that it is becoming a significant factor.
Add in coillers, jumpships, gate construction ships, maintenance PDCs, salvage, tankers & resupply, maintenance vessels, ... aaaaa...Use conscripts for all of these (except maybe jumpships, depends how you're using them). If it doesn't need to respond quickly in combat or fire a weapon... Conscript crews all the way.
Yes, I am doing fleet training. The ships do nothing but train actually, since I have nothing to shoot.