Hey! Where did my transport go?

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When you use transport ships to invade other planets, the transportvessels are just lost. Why is that? Why can't you just use the same transport over and over again like in the civ series?

Are the transports build for one use only? I have trouble finding that reliable, when that very same civilisation have invented things like hyper drive and cloaking. How hard can it be to invent a ship which can survive a landing?

Just my two cents :)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
You only keep the transport if ALL of its troops didn't die. So if you invade with 3 fully loaded Transports (thats 3000 million troops), and win the combat with 2001 million troops, you keep two of your fully loaded Transports, and the last million troops become the population of the system.

Transports can be used over and over. If you send a loaded Transport into a system you control, all of the troops on board are added to the system population, and you can reload it.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Vlad,

In any military operation, there will be attrition. As Nicholas said, you only lose the TR if all it's troops are eliminated. Think of it like an APC or BMP - if the squad has to fight from its mount and gets captured/eliminated, the carrier's probably going to, too.

Also, on larger maps, the TR "burnoff" can actually be a blessing in disguise. At the later stages, it is not uncommon to build Combat TR's to off-lift excess population. Your maintenance costs climb quickly at 5gc/unit. Losing some of them through this attrition helps keep this expense within reason.

~SDC~
Sins of a Solar Empire II