Hi, I have two beginner questions that I've seen different answers around:
- Do STO units provide PPV to planets?
- Do units with troop transport bays require cargo shuttles to unload troops on colonies without facilities (a Xenoarcheology team).
I'm playing 1.9.5 if that helps.
Troop Transports (ships using the normal Troop Transport Bays) should require cargo shuttles to load and unload troops. However:
1. If a troop transport is using the "Troop Transport Drop Bays", then it can use the Orbital Drop command to instantly unload the units it is carrying onto a planet. It should still need cargo shuttles to pick them back up.
2. In the Aurora V1.12 bug reports thread, there is a bug report that Troop transports are not needing cargo shuttles to load and unload, although it hasn't been confirmed yet. So you may be able to get away with not using cargo shuttles, but it is due to a bug.
Still, you should put cargo shuttles on your troop transports because they decrease the time it takes to load and unload units unless you are doing an orbital drop.