Posted by: boolybooly
« on: August 11, 2022, 04:56:02 PM »Funnily enough I just made a suggestion in the suggestions thread which would probably be relevant to your scenario.
IMHO it would help if we simply had an active order for tankers to donate fuel to fleets the same way they can donate fuel to a colony.
So the donor tanker fleet carries out the order on the authority of the order until recipient full or until the minimum reserve is reached on the donor fleet and then moves to its next order.
EDIT + For programming practicality this would be easiest if the recipient was static which could be a condition of the order like "Transfer Fuel To Static Fleet" in the same way that you can order to "Refuel From Static Tankers".
IMHO it would help if we simply had an active order for tankers to donate fuel to fleets the same way they can donate fuel to a colony.
So the donor tanker fleet carries out the order on the authority of the order until recipient full or until the minimum reserve is reached on the donor fleet and then moves to its next order.
Active refuelling order against a target fleet, without the need to join the target fleet.http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13020.msg161180#msg161180
So I can order a tanker to move and refuel a depot station and then move on to do something else.
EDIT + For programming practicality this would be easiest if the recipient was static which could be a condition of the order like "Transfer Fuel To Static Fleet" in the same way that you can order to "Refuel From Static Tankers".