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Fleet Auxiliary Ships are able to repair and rearm ships of all size-classes including Carriers and other Fleet Auxiliary Ships. Ships of this type also advertise trade offers to acquire resources that it needs they need as long as it is they are actively providing supplies.
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This will cause your fleet auxiliary ship to start acquiring resources and will make it available to other ships that you own for resupply.
Note that this step is not neither necessary nor available for Carriers.
Supplying Resupply Ships
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- You can manually order the resupply ship to purchase resources that it requires.
Note that the amount of scanning arrays needed is indicated in the trade menu in parentheses.
This method is available to both Carriers and Fleet Auxiliary Ships. - You can manually order one or more of your own freighters to deliver resources that it requires.
The number of scanning arrays that the Nomad needs is also indicated here in parentheses.
This method is available to both Carriers and Fleet Auxiliary Ships. - You can also tell your resupply ship to Get Supplies.
This will order the ship to look for trades on its own and buy all of the resources that it needs. As long as you know of trades fairly close to within a few sectors of the ship that are selling the resources that it needs, this will result in a series of trade orders to purchase these resources. You can verify that the ship is going off to trade by looking at that ship's Order Queue.
Note the maximum gate distance over which the ship will look for trades at the bottom of this image. This gate distance depends on the Piloting skill of the ship's captain.
This is the fastest method to instruct your ship to automatically get resources. However, this is also usually the most expensive.
This method is available to both Carriers and Fleet Auxiliary Ships. - You can allow the resupply ship to acquire resources on their own.
- Fleet auxiliary ships advertise trade offers for the resources that they need. Free traders will occasionally entertain these offers and spontaneously fly to these ships to deliver resources. Do note, however, that resupply ships deactivate these trade offers when they engage in certain activities such as going into combat. .
To activate this, all that needs to be done is to order your fleet auxiliary ship to Supply Fleet as detailed in the section above labeled Activating Fleet Auxiliary Ships.
To verify that these trade offers are active, right-click on the ship's icon on the map and select Trade Offers.
This brings up a menu that details all of the wares and amounts that your resupply ship is trying to purchase. This is the most hands-off method, but also tends to be the slowest.
Note that this method is only available to Fleet Auxiliary Ships.
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