Supplies

posted on July 10th, 2011, 8:08 pm

Hi,

I cannot find how to get new supplies in Instand Action gameplay...

Cu, newbee Sicwan

[Tyler]

posted on July 10th, 2011, 8:18 pm

Last edited by Tyler on July 10th, 2011, 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Welcome to the Forum.

Every race except the Borg can buy them from the Starbase, the Borg get them automatically from the Incubation Centre and the Dominion can mine them with the Ketracel Synthezisor (needs a miner in the Supply mining mode).

Klingons also get them when they rank-up, as a race bonus.

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:19 pm

another noob question, for the borg is there a limit to how much you can stack the Incubation center? Also how much does each Incubation center produce?

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:23 pm

There is no limit Each Incub Center produces 1 supply every 6.6 seconds (as on the tooltip), with the upgrade for Optimize upping that to 1 every 4.6 seconds

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:31 pm

how to buy supply from a starbase?

[Tyler]

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:32 pm

Last edited by Tyler on July 10th, 2011, 9:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It's at the end of the build menu where you find Construction ships.

This should be on the button:

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:51 pm

While we're on the subject of buying supply, would it be possible to move it to the Starbase main menu or give it a button on the UI iself rather than having it in the build menu? I think it would make more sense that way since you're not really building anything and it would help new guys to find it.

posted on July 10th, 2011, 9:58 pm

Supply will be receiving a redo soon [sup](tm)[/sup]

posted on July 10th, 2011, 10:21 pm

yep. I'm not pleased with the way supplies work at the moment and I think we will redesign their usability somewhere along the lines of the faction redos

posted on July 11th, 2011, 11:29 am

That's good to hear. Especially for Feds and Roms there is little sense gameplay wise in the supplies. It's just something that eats your ressources every now and then. For Borg it is a wall you run against and that can stop your production totally, so it's a quite nice to prevent a "Borg roll" once they have decent CC production.

posted on July 11th, 2011, 1:04 pm

I remember this took me an hour to find out when I first downloaded the mod. Is this still not made clear in the guide anywhere? Might be usefull..You'd be surprised how noobish people like me can be 

posted on July 11th, 2011, 1:52 pm

Yup, you can find it here

posted on August 19th, 2011, 1:51 am

When I first started there was no guide, I ran into this issue, and stopped playing because of it. I uninstalled the mod, went back to Ghost's Compilation where the Feds were really op, and Eventually noticed it again, reinstalled it, and played as the Dominion for a while. This was the version 3 preview and I wasn't happy that there weren't any Borg. Finally, I was building miners, when I noticed an extra button. OMG what a game changer! xD btw my favorite map was Mutara combat, and a lot of those maps aren't included anymore

posted on August 25th, 2011, 1:38 am

went back to Ghost's Compilation where the Feds were really op

Want me to dig up my mod of that mod (if I still have it) that fixed that ? :p


Boy that was a pretty mod in it's day tho :p .


But yeah when I was new (ages ago) I never remembered having a problem really.