Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

Currently I'm playing the Dominion and I'm having serious trouble keeping up with resource demands.  First of all, I seem to be having trouble having both a Ketracel Synthesizer and a processor (resource thing) work off of the smae moon.  The ships always go for the clesest station so I end up either just getting supply or the resource from the moon, so I was wondering if there's anyway to "bind" a ship to a particular station, so I get both supply and that resource?  Second, if that's not possible, is it more worth it to split the moons between ketracel thingys and resource processing thingys, or to just have the resource processors and then buy supply routes from the main station?  Oh and lastly, what is the most efficient number of mining ships per moon and number of processing stations and their distance from it?
Any help would be much appreciated!

:huh: should automatically be binded. it is for me an i didn't do anything special.
perhaps you should try just building 1 or the other near one resource an the other near another resource (if that even makes sence to ya).
 but anyway this is probably a bug for you since on mine the frieghter that comes out of the synthisizer is automatically binded to that station.
for frieghters that you've built seperately, move the frieghter to the resource that you want it to mine then right-click on the station that you want it delivered at, and that should work :) .

I'll try that and see if it works.

That is the anwser to your problem ;)




I think its more efficient to have like 1 ketracel thingy and 3 mining stations (if u have 4 moons of course :)) If you only buy supplies your in deep **** cause from 80 u get from 1800 tri u can only build 13 bugs(cause 1 costs 6 supplies lol) and I wont even say about the battleships that cost 20+ supplies :D
I use 3 mining ships per moon, 4 could work too. More than that its just a waste. Mining stations should be as close to the moon as possible :)

yeah, 1 original and 2 additional mining ships work best for me, so 3 per moon, so that at any given time, one is mining, one is unloading and one is just cruising around untill it gets a chance to unload :P

I usually use 4.  It maximizes the amount of income.  Any more than 4 is just wasteful.

Well, um, it doesn't work for me.  See, what I wanted to do was have both a synthesizer and refinery at the smae moon, and have two ships assigned to each, but unless I manually told the ship to go to a specific station EVERY SINGLE TIME it finished loading minerals, it would go to whichever station was coser at that time (which side of the moon it was on when it finished loading). :wacko:  

Khmmm that is strange, cause if you select a freighter and order it to go to a particular mining station, it will mine on a moon which is closes to that mining station and it will dump resources on that mining station :S

i've come across the same issue as mortographer. i've put a synth and refinery on either side of the dilithium moon and got 4 miners, 2 set to go to the synth and 2 for the refinery but they don't stick to the plan they go wherever they are closest to

use only one or the other, sometimes you can't have both.

lol that sucks.  Oh well, mabye for a future release the dominion could have a mining freigter that ONLY works with the synth, so that way it wouldn't have a choise where to go.

well, if we are already complicating things.....the supply thingy could actually build it's own freighters

well it would be able to handle resources then would it.
its the facility that does the converting and adding resources to your account not the frieghters.

really??!?! i don't think anyone knew that! of cource it's the station! but if the station had it's own unique freighters they would only go to THAT station, that's the disscussion, not wheather freighters convert the resources.

Well, you can switch the Dominion vessels between miner and constructor... so why not simply add the option "ketracel resource miner".

Then we could choose the right mode and that's it.

i agree thats pretty much what i would like to see if its not too much trouble

ive been having the same problem so i think that is also a good idea

or simply use one or the other! don't be lazy people :P

we use 1 we lose out on the other!  

... It is more efficient to just use one of your usualy 4 moons for supply... Since your just gonna waste the reosuces you collect off that moon on the supply your not getting anyway. At a higher cost to you than if you where just mining for supply with the ketrecel facility.

usually i use one of the Tri moons and that works out fine

well, you'r screwed if you only have two moons.

I have 2 Mining Stations by each moon in the Main Base with 4 freighters per moon, and a Supply station between a pair of moons close by with 1 maybe 2 freighters per moon.

Same here, I ususally go with three freighters though to avoid congestion.

I don't seem to get a congested base, do you have all stations together or 2 on the left side of 1 moon and 2 on the right of the other?

Personally, I spread them out.

For example, I don't turtle, so I get MORE than 2 moons.

This is critical to playing as the dominion.

The ideal is to have separate moons for each.

E.G.

Mining station with 3 freighters on a Trit.
Mining station with 3 freighters on a Dilith.
Ketracel with 3 freighters on a Trit/Dilith.
Ketracel with 3 frieghters on a Trit/Dilith.

How quickly do you expand after that?  I can't imagine that you get very far with only 1 di and tri each, not to mention only 3 miners per.

I just go for straight mines after that, the supplies are covered for the game with that approach.