A very long time to upgrade and repair

[D00]

There is a fleet of 2 aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers, 110 M and 120 C. Upgrade drones, anti-missile weapons take a very long time. You can not do this for 1 button? Otherwise it takes more than an hour.

[Alan Phipps]

Moving to the main X4 forum (from Tech Sp) which is better suited for gameplay and suggestions topics.

[Shehriazad]

There is a fleet of 2 aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers, 110 M and 120 C. Upgrade drones, anti-missile weapons take a very long time. You can not do this for 1 button? Otherwise it takes more than an hour.

AIRCRAFT Carriers? HERESY.

And yea...anything that has to do with managing a lot of CREW or a lot of SHIPS is kinda derpy right now :/

[pvarn]

Upgrading a single ship is not one button let alone a fleet.

[Sam L.R. Griffiths]

I would have thought it would be possible to select multiple ships of the same type (e.g. Colossus Vanguards separate from Colossus Sentinels) and select a single loadout for refit.

[surferx]

1 click would ruin the immersion. X3 you just clicked to upgrade and it never seemed realistic. I love that it takes a little time to do the upgrade and you can actually watch the upgrades being installed. You're upgrading a huge ship in 1/10th the time it takes to do an oil change, but that's not fast enough?

[caltrop]

When you build a ship, you can save the loadout (including missiles and other consumables which as satellites such as drones)

So resupplying and repairing one ship is fairly simple - select it, right click on the yard or wharf, select the pre-saved loadout, select repair if it was damaged and then you are pretty much done.

My 12 destroyers use the same loadout and I send them back in pairs to refit/rearm while the rest carry on fighting etc. Most of the time spent is therefore travelling there/back

No way to select multiple ships at once for upgrade/repair afaik

[D00]

Selecting a saved version does not restore the drones, crew and anti-missiles.
Then, the game must be filled with diversity and actions that carry meaning. 200+ times the same combinations of several clicks can hardly be called diverse with great meaning)

[Ezarkal]

I assume there's a way for the ship to auto-resupply. I've never found it (or looked for it), but the 2.0 beta changelog list the following:

Improved range over which ships that run out of ammo can look for a known equipment dock from which to re-stock.

So if they improved the feature, it means it should have existed in the first place... though I can't tell you how (or if) it works.

Otherwise, "resupply ships" is a listed objective in their roadmap for 2.5.
I've also read somewhere about possible ways to use standard stations as resupply point for missiles, though I can't remember where exactly. (I think it was in a discussions about the roadmaps and future plans.)

Of course, in either case you'll still have a lot of clicking to make. It comes with the size of the fleet. It may help lessen the load, though.

I personally avoid missile/torpedoes for most of my standard fleets (the ones I use for patrol and such), and use them only for the stuff I'll control more directly (small assault fleet, boarding squads, etc.) Otherwise it's too much micromanagement for me.

[pref]

I assume there's a way for the ship to auto-resupply. I've never found it (or looked for it), but the 2.0 beta changelog list the following:

Improved range over which ships that run out of ammo can look for a known equipment dock from which to re-stock.

So if they improved the feature, it means it should have existed in the first place... though I can't tell you how (or if) it works.

Ships contact you if they run out of ammo sometimes. This change affects whether the resupply option in the dialog exists when you answer the NPC i think.