But the truth is I DO like to keep lots of supplies for myself and supply fronts personally. The reason I use private stockpiles in particular is also due to the mechanics: pulling from a private stockpile is much, much quicker than pulling from public, so when I want to share supplies, I just hand them out or give the code to those I trust. So why private stockpiles? First I'll point out the obvious: you have to submit supplies to a base to use them, and anyone can pull anything from a base, so every time I supply a base I am supplying the team. Sure, the enemy may reset and steal my stockpile but that's true of anything you supply anywhere, and supplies submitted to a frontline base are much more likely to be lost than supplies further back at a seaport or depot, anyone can see that - and the supplies at the depot can be quickly moved if they ARE in danger, whereas supplies that have been submitted to the frontline can't be easily evacuated. A big part of the reason I use frontline depots is because the supplies are close to but not actually right on the Frontline, where the supplies can be flexibly allocated at a moment's notice. Even for a scrap field in the same region as the refinery you should use a flatbed the only place trucks have the edge is those scrap fields which are practically inside the logi hub itself.Īs for stockpiling supplies, well, wars usually last weeks, not days, so saving something until the right moment feels fine to me. Truck may be faster, but when it needs to make more than three times as many trips for the same amount of resources, it is just too slow or inefficient compared to the flatbed. I encourage you to experiment empirically to discover for yourself, but I can assure you from a plethora of practical experience that it is much, much faster to move resources or supplies in bulk if you are going any significant distance at all. True, they are slower and require cranes on either end, but the cranes don't actually take that much extra time once you get smooth with them, and the huge efficiency increase from carrying more than 3 times as much in on trip more than makes over for it even over medium distances, and the farther you are trucking the better the efficiency gains. I would absolutely characterize that as "all that much more". A flatbed with a resource container can carry 5k. I'm scrapping, hauling, making things as fast as I can, boosting backline stockpiles or zipping crates to the frontline, and almost everything I've done is public access by the time I log off.Ī canvass truck can carry 1.5k salvage. Then again, I don't really understand this need for a huge private stockpile of mats and stuff, especially when wars last only a few days, your private stockpile in the frontline depot could be in enemy territory by the time you log back in and your efforts were wasted and entirely unhelpful in holding it. A flatbed that goes at about 2/3 speed of a canvas and messes with containers just isn't worth it for short or medium trips or fast turnaround. Same with the other end, need a bunch of shit fast? Beep beep MFs, bang, click, gone. With a dumptruck or canvas truck hauling scrap, you slam your nose into the refinery, a few mouse clicks, and you're gone. Add in fucking around the cranes and such on both ends of delivery and waiting for other players doing their thing, since there's only one crane at the refinery and depot. For some items, you need them, but I don't see how you can scrap or send supplies to the front faster than in dump trucks and canvas trucks. Um, from someone who just started, flatbeds are kinda slow and don't haul all that much more. You won't clog up the dock space, you wont have to leave your precious supplies openly sitting where others can snag them, and you spend the minimum time necessary at the seaport. You can submit stuff as you produce it, without worrying about theft, and whenever you're ready you can build/pull out the freighter and quickly fill it up right while sitting at the seaport. Additionally, a dumptruck can only carry raw resources, and why would you want to fill a freighter with nothing but scrap/components/sulfur? Finally, leaving a freighter sitting at the dock for an hour while you slowly fill it up, one container at a time, is a great recipe for getting in your team's way or having them run off with your freighter/containers.Ī much better strategy, in my view, is to use private reserve stockpiles. If you are going to use a freighter, you REALLY ought to have a flatbed the freighter is all about efficiency, so slowly filling it up with the less efficient dumptruck makes particularly little sense. I respectfully disagree that this strategy is the most effective.
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