Greetings!
Whimsical rambling ahead with questions. . .
With the decreased sensor ranges in C# I feel the need to deploy sensor stations(or ships, possible could be ships) at various locations to. . . get some eyes out there.
Initial plan, that I figured would be a decent idea from what I remember reading in proper lurker mode on the forum over the year. . . s:
Tractor stations into position, then let a fleet with recreation mod & maintence modules serve the ship & crew roll into position, stay awhile and then continue on its journey to other stations after having rewinded maint and deployment times. Seems like a reasonable 'Go there, go over the equipment, fix it up, bring Michael Bolton to sing for the crew and then off to the next base'.
However, ofc this did not work. Or well it would work, with terrible micromanagment. . .
Problem 1: To resupply a fleet you have to use the order 'Join and resupply'. . . RnR fleet disappears into stationary fleet. Poo. . . no work.
Problem 2: Order delay, still, does not seem to work properly? Or did I botch it. Fleet has to roll up and stay X amount of time to overhaul or allow for "shore leave".
Problem 3: To rewind. . . we must have proper hangars and land the ship to be overhauled. . . again using orders that removes one of the fleets, and no order able to detach a ship once overhaul complete.
Now, problem 3 can be solved with having a maint ship with the listening fleet, halting the progression of the maint timer. More tonnage required but sure. . .
Problem 2: . . . I hope I'am just botching something obvious? Order delay in seconds?
Leaving problem 1:
Even with 3(solved by more ships dedicated to the task) & 2 (because that is a pretty usefull thing to have so it should work I hope) out of the way still got problems with 1, not able to resupply a fleet without joining it, thus supplies will drop and things will start exploding, or you micromanage a bucketload of listening fleets every 5-10 years to have a chance to know if somethings moving?
Am I missing something obvious? Is there a better way to have listening ships/stations around JP's and systems? . . . sensor bouys(missiles?) targeted and left to rot at tons of locations I seem to have read as a . . . possible thing. Deep space tracking stations thrown on random asteroids across the known world ? :S
In conjunction with a patrol fleet or two, or five, I figured I'd be able to pickup npr movement with a fair chance.
. . . or should I skip this line of thinking and just rush in guns blazing? fog of war sure seems quite foggy
Micromanagment ad nausem makes my teeth hurt, setting up elegant workflows with orders for three hours that'll save me 30 minutes each future day in the same campain on the other hand. . .
Help me Aurorowanobis. . .
