Is a (assault) carrier a resupply loophole?

[bluebottle]

One problem I've seen with capitals deployed over long distances is resupply. The cruiser/MF/dest runs out of missiles, the skycaps run out of ammo, etc and they need freighters/scouts to bring some, or they rip back home and lose their useful position.

For example, imagine a 2-ship fleet of a dest and an assault carrier (maybe MF too for fun). The dest kills stuff at long range and the carrier's skycaps take care of anything that gets too close. Scouts could rip to the carrier with supplies.

Could those scouts instantly run through the carrier, reloading themselves, and then dropping the ammo/missiles off? One scout doing so could fully resupply a dest in less than a couple of minutes. The carrier's skycaps also use it's own previously-non-existent ammo. Or do carriers not reload "client" small/medium ships with "parts for other ships"?

Surely the ammo side would work. Which makes me wonder why I haven't seen this tactic in action. Just caps getting marooned a long ways away with no supplies when a carrier drone could (maybe) solve all their problems.

[KofiMan]

I've done the ammo thing once, resupplying an attack carrier with ammo picked up from itself, but I've never done that with other parts.

[ImmortalZ]

QUOTE (bluebottle @ Feb 4 2007, 09:37 PM) Or do carriers not reload "client" small/medium ships with "parts for other ships"?

Surely the ammo side would work. Which makes me wonder why I haven't seen this tactic in action. Just caps getting marooned a long ways away with no supplies when a carrier drone could (maybe) solve all their problems.

Correct. Carriers don't resupply parts for other ships. They depend on certain templates set in the core.

Also, you need to have huge games on ultra-huge maps to make the extra co-ordination required, worthwhile. This will pretty non-existent in the average pickup game.

[Gothmog]

I still say freighters should deploy probes AND be able to dock at carriers.

[bluebottle]

QUOTE (ImmortalZ @ Feb 5 2007, 01:44 AM) Correct. Carriers don't resupply parts for other ships. They depend on certain templates set in the core.

OK, thanks.

QUOTE (ImmortalZ @ Feb 5 2007, 01:44 AM) Also, you need to have huge games on ultra-huge maps to make the extra co-ordination required, worthwhile. This will pretty non-existent in the average pickup game.

True. It's also a pity that capitals are so rarely used in proper multi-ship fleets, e.g. ass+mf+dev/dest, where they can cover each other's deficiencies, have freighter/scout resupply for MF, rip past camped alephs, etc.

[madpeople]

teamwork is cheating /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

[terrenblade]

If your not cheating, your not trying :eg:

[Avalanche]

Hmmm, last I checked a carrier toped up my load out to the one I started with. But perhaps my scout is special? /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

[madpeople]

carriers are funny things.

if you want it to load what you customised your loadout to be you need to dock with it with your scout fully loaded how you want it.

[Shizoku]

carrier loadout is simple


if you have expended all your missles and mines, they will be iun your cargo and not loaded. if they arent. you will have your loadout. it's simp;e


geez



all you need to do is load those particular items and go through the carrier again and you will have your loadout., perhaps with afew ,mimstakes because the game fundamentaly sucks, but its ok, carriers werent meant to be what they are now., they were originaly just meant to be small int resuply ships as the cap ship went on huge raping runs;