Colony Supply ship -time to arriving

[Alexchamp]

Can I see the time to arrive next colony supply ship (fleet suply cruiser)?At what file is it? at what offset?

 

Thank you very much in advance for answers

[NKF]

One thing I might ask is how is the interval of time between each supply ship event determined (after they complete their missions or get captured/destroyed)?

 

- NKF

[Alexchamp]

One thing I might ask is how is the interval of time between each supply ship event determined (after they complete their missions or get captured/destroyed)?

 

- NKF

 

is it different times to arrive in case if colony supply ship at COLONY SUPPLY MISSION EXACTLY complete their mission or not? If yes I want to know where can I see either time to arrive his?

But Mainly, time to arrive after they complete their mission.

[NKF]

I have a feeling that the base's loc.dat entry may hold a variable that is responsible for the supply ship requests. I'm not sure what to look for, but I think if anything appears to count down after every few hours or days for the base's loc.dat entry, then perhaps that it is it.

 

edit:

 

No, scrap that idea. There doesn't appear to be any scheduling at all. In fact, after reloading the same game over and over again while watching an alien base, the only regular occurrence is that it always appears at 0:30am. I think there was one at 1:00am, but that coincided with multiple sightings.

 

I think the game randomly decides every day whether or not to generate a supply ship.

 

- NKF

[Alexchamp]

No, scrap that idea. There doesn't appear to be any scheduling at all. In fact, after reloading the same game over and over again while watching an alien base, the only regular occurrence is that it always appears at 0:30am. I think there was one at 1:00am, but that coincided with multiple sightings.

 

Youu are very attentive. Great respect to you from me. I tested your idea too but I don't notice this nuance. And I checked 2 minutes ago and convinced that is truth. All Fleet supply Cruisers spotted at 0-30 - 1-30 am.

 

Then we need to formule of probability to arriving this sub

[NKF]

My only guess about the 30 minutes is that the Supply ship is possibly generated 30 minute prior at 00:00am, but is not detected until 30 minutes in, which is when the next sonar sweep for targets happens. There is the possibility that they were missed during the last two sonar sweeps, which is why they only became visible at 1:00am or 1:30am.

 

Beyond that, the actual time that they would appear was different each time I reloaded to try again.

 

That would explain why some players have reported not seeing very many of them in a month, while some get them quite regularly.

 

- NKF