I think this is an interesting idea that would add some more dimensionality to the game. The idea of like a barren moon covered in ruins would be pretty interesting.

Management -> Assets -> one of the buttons on the right (expand?)

This will show you the generation and consumption within a given zone. Definitely not the full picture, but can be helpful.

<t> Maybe I go overkill but I build my cities around my truck depots. Generally I will forward build a depot somewhere that's in a good strategic position. Then maybe build a farm at the same location. Once I have a farm built I'll go ahead and build a zone. It also helps if I have a high capability ...

<t> So I really like slower games, and I really like the lower tech level, but I'm having a really hard time combining those in this game. Comes down to the lack of power. Maybe I've missed something, but it seems like the opening of a TL3 game gets defined by discovering power generation. Without ...

Without multiple SHQs you're going to be spending double the LPs than you would need to in a lot of places. I'm thinking you'll have to sooner or later. I haven't played with it myself yet, but I'm going to take a shot at it tonight.

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Hellkyte, since if I'm not mistaken a unit only gets its supplies from a SHQ, the answer would be no.
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Ah ok, that's what I thought, for a second I was thinking troops could be supplied locally, which would be a ...

So, let's say I have an army on the the western front, will it try to get supplied from its local zone first before the SHQ?

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Except there <I><s>[i]</s>is<e>[/i]</e></I> no such trans-shipment problem in the game. All resource movement is centralized around the SHQ. Goods move from zones to the SHQ, from the SHQ to units, and from the SHQ back to zones ...

What if buildings/mines within X hexes of the city could work using natural supply and didnt need a road?

<t> Yeah I'm not sure what the deal is here but some folks are just rude.<br/>
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Anyways I'm guessing from the description that your network is overloaded and you cam get something to that location, but it isnt clear what it is. One simple option would be to retreat some of the infantry out of ...

<r> I will admit that my experience with games with logistics in it are minimal, so my band of experience is either this game or the RW systems, so there is a very broad gap in between. If there are already better implementations you can find in existing games that would translate easily, shoot go ...

<t> It becomes challenging if you do true trans-shipment. So, let's say the you have 4 cities with an SHQ in the center, and troops all over. A trans-shipment system will require materials to be pulled from all over and distributed between the cities based on their local production output and needs ...

<t> I guess I'm coming in a bit late but I actually really like the logistics system. A true/optimal pull based supply chain system simply isnt a realistic goal. If he could write a code efficient optimizer/simulator for something like that then he should stop making games and go do that instead ...

Ok, yep updated to Beta3, that fixed it.

Good stuff, thanks much

Ok, I had installed the 1.02 that's in the main 1.02 thread, but maybe not the latest beta. I'll update and see how different it looks.

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OP is talking about being unable to upgrade units from type A to type B because design type B did not inherit from design type A.<br/>

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Sorry, I think I should clarify. I can not upgrade units that inherited from ...

So far the only thing I can do for them is to scrap the entire formation, which I'm not a huge fan of. Replace or Upgrade are both grayed out.

<t> I screwed up my Mobile Artillery and undersized the engine which I didn't realize until I built it, so I updated the model with the model design council. But when I try to update it in the field I see the update button is greyed out with the message "This model cannot be updated". I'm noticing ...