Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[mostly_harmless]

Hi,

The Union finds itself outnumbered 20:1 by a hostile alien race that also has a tech lead.
During an early skirmish an enemy destroyer escort was successfully boarded, captured and subsequently towed back to earth for refit.
It is the fastest and best armored ship in the fleet, so the brass in charge of operations is loath to have it being picked apart by the tech teams to help with research.

I am really torn whether to get the ship scrapped for components, to subsequently scrap them for potential tech gain.
In your experience, is it worth it? And what is the precise process? A tech boost to propulsion tech would be really welcome.  (Playing on 25% research speed).

Thanks.

Regards
Thomas

[Black]

Well, it is only one ship and your opponent have more of them most likely and can build new ones as well. As such if they decide to go on offensive, one ship will most likely not change the outcome. So I would go for scraping, so you can get better tech for all your ships.

[vorpal+5]

The infamous "I understand not much how refueling work in C#" issue is now striking me in turn, after so many 

I have a mini-tanker in the same exact location as a stranded fleet. She has fuel, has a refueling system, is checked as being a tanker, is set to refuel own fleet.
I pass the order "Join and refuel target fleet"

She join. She does not refuel. ??

[Droll]

The infamous "I understand not much how refueling work in C#" issue is now striking me in turn, after so many 

I have a mini-tanker in the same exact location as a stranded fleet. She has fuel, has a refueling system, is checked as being a tanker, is set to refuel own fleet.
I pass the order "Join and refuel target fleet"

She join. She does not refuel. ??

Refueling is not instantaneous, when you gave it the command what it did was that it joined the target fleet. Now what SHOULD happen is that since its set to refuel its own fleet, it will automatically, over time refuel its parent fleet. If the fleet is not moving you should notice ships getting refueled one by one, draining from the tanker.

In the case of movement, if you have not researched underway replenishment, nothing will happen. If you have done this the tanker will refuel at a %rate dependent on what level of underway replenishment you have research.
The problem is that when moving, your tanker may be refueling at a rate that is slower than the fuel consumption rate of the fleet, making it look like no refueling is happening.

[vorpal+5]

Right it works, sorry for the false alarm! 

How can you tell to only give some fuel to a given ship?

[db48x]

How can you tell to only give some fuel to a given ship?

You have to micromanage it by juggling ships in and out of the same fleet as the tanker.

[chrislocke2000]

Just having my first go at using boarding and trying to work out an optimal force to do the combat. Do people bother setting up boarding units with HQs and Logistics or just go for as many grunts as possible?

[Black]

Just having my first go at using boarding and trying to work out an optimal force to do the combat. Do people bother setting up boarding units with HQs and Logistics or just go for as many grunts as possible?

HQ yes, commanding officer will provide bonus to the formation. Supplies are not necessary, if you only use the troops for boarding, as the boarding combat is much shorter than planetary combat.

[mostly_harmless]

Just having my first go at using boarding and trying to work out an optimal force to do the combat.  Do people bother setting up boarding units with HQs and Logistics or just go for as many grunts as possible?

Boarding craft capacity is the limiting factor obviously.  Grunts with best armor and boarding capabilities.  And I add a couple of HQ units for redundancy.
I shoot the enemy craft until the velocity drops to 0 and then send in the fast attack shuttle. 
I learned to have a supply ship, a tanker and a combat tug nearby to get the captured vessel out of harms way as fast as possible.

Thomas

[Andrew]

The biggest problem I have had in capturing ships is that if there are multiple enemy ships any you have not captured will open fire on the one you capture often destroying it. So ideally you need to disable their weapons or capture them all at the same time.

[vorpal+5]

I'm intrigued by a spending of 584 duranium listed as maintenance in the economics tab. Maintenance of what exactly? I have in orbit only one freighter and 6 fighters and they have their own value for maintenance.

[chrislocke2000]

Thanks all for the tips on boarding combat.

A separate question on using fighters. I have created a number of flights and used the land on and assign command to assign them to individual carriers. Post combat I've then given them land on carrier and form a sub fleet command. They duly refuel and reload ordnance but I've notice they don't appear to draw on the msp in the carrier to restock that. Am I missing a command or a required tech to enable that to happen?

[TheTalkingMeowth]

I'm intrigued by a spending of 584 duranium listed as maintenance in the economics tab. Maintenance of what exactly? I have in orbit only one freighter and 6 fighters and they have their own value for maintenance.

The maintenance column on the mining tab shows the resources going into manufacturing MSP, which in C# is done by maintenance facilities. It's a 2:1:2 ratio of duranium, uridium, and gallicite IIRC.

Thanks all for the tips on boarding combat.

A separate question on using fighters. I have created a number of flights and used the land on and assign command to assign them to individual carriers. Post combat I've then given them land on carrier and form a sub fleet command. They duly refuel and reload ordnance but I've notice they don't appear to draw on the msp in the carrier to restock that. Am I missing a command or a required tech to enable that to happen?

I'm pretty sure hangars can't transfer MSP. If you need to restock the fighters, you need a ship flagged as a supply ship with a shuttle bay and have to do the transfer like you would for a normal ship.

[Borealis4x]

How do I stop getting notified of new posts to threads I've responded to? I haven't set the thread to notify but every thread I post in still pops up in 'Show new replied to your posts' whenever someone leaves a new comment.

[vorpal+5]

I'm trying to create an empty fleet in orbit of Mars for the SY there, but I don't find an option, I can only create empty fleets in orbit of Earth.

Is there not a kind of catch 22 for Academy Commandant? I would like Scientists in Sensor, but to increase the chance to get them, I would need at least one scientist in sensor as the commandant, but I have none ...