Listening stations & RnR

[VimWabbit (OP)]

Thanks! Very interesting things here.    It would seem the commercial recon satellites+dsts + quick patrol/response teams will do a nice job to avoid the whole song and dance routine that I was envisioning in my head, my sanity is thanks to this slowly peaking out from behind the couch.   

Still feels like there should be a 'resupply fleet' order that does not make one or the other join togheter to resupply?

[YABG]

Might be one of those orders that will come a little later once all the bugs are ironed out. I'd like to see that, plus a RnR order (like overhaul but the ship just stays until its deployment clock has dropped to 0).

Don't forget sensor mines. Very good for jump point pickets and can easily be carried by survey craft due to their small size.

[Pedroig]

Listening Posts should be Passive Only.   Recon Satellites/Probes can be Active.   Not sure how it all works out in game engine, but a passive recon satellite/probe should be near undetectable.

[Alsadius]

How do you make commercial fighters? Commercial engines are like 5 times larger than the smallest fighter?

No engines at all.

Prince Consort class Recon Satellite      211 tons       9 Crew       45.2 BP       TCS 4    TH 0    EM 0
1 km/s      Armour 1-3       Shields 0-0       HTK 3      Sensors 11/0/0/0      DCR 1      PPV 0
MSP 133    Max Repair 12.0 MSP
Commander    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 120 months   

Active Search Sensor AS6-R1 (1)     GPS 12     Range 6.5m km    MCR 705.9k km    Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH1-11 (1)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  26.2m km

This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

And you can build this from fighter factories?

Yes. In my 1.00 game, I've made dozens in my fighter factories. (To be fair, this could be unintended behaviour that Steve will bugfix)