Honestly, I don't think the player needs many more things to micro manage in Sins. Its a strategy game not an Empire simulator, and typically only tactical RTS games (AKA real time tactic games) get deeply into things like fuel and ammo because they keep the player from doing other more important things in their empire. I'll also save you the trouble and tell you it won't happen, as a change this big would have been announced already.

Though you could change the antimatter system into a fuel/ammo system with a mod, and to a certain degree I know at least one does.

It would probably be a lot of coding changes and would effect many things.  Not likely to happen.

However, it might be possible to create an ability that when it times out makes the ship unable to move or fire--a permanent mass disorientation.  Ships or modules could be given an ability to "refuel", which when used would reset the count down.  Making it work for all the things you mentioned would cramp up available slots for more useful abilities so the one ability added to each ship would be the most you would want--not separate ones for all the variables you gave.

You could rework antimatter but that would effect almost every weapon and ability in the game and would require a new balance.

A  lot of micromanaging would be required to watch all your ships.

A friend did tell me of a Star Trek game where ships under fire would sometimes randomly have certain "systems" disabled...sometimes engines, sometimes weapons, sometimes I don' know, whatever else star trek ships have...

Of course, those game elements were okay because a "fleet" was maybe 10 ships, and a big focus of the game was micromanaging battles....

To implement things like ammo and fuel and crew conditions would turn sins into something entirely different....maybe that's exactly what you want, I don't know, but it certainly would not be the same game....it seems to me that you'd want a game with a lot less ships but more focus on tactics and ability usage...frigates/cruisers would have to be like half the fleet supply of capital ships, and probably need multiple abilities to be interesting enough for super micromanagement....

If you are serious about trying to implement these things to any sort of degree (like in a personal mod), you'd have to get really really creative with abilities, I mean really creative...one problem is that there is a limit on how many abilities ships can have, so you may have to put abilities on planets or structures to get the desired affects...

Any type of ship that you have to keep in your fleet is a new level of micro management. Total War is not really a good comparison as you have unlimited time to make such strategic decisions and the battles are on the tactical level, while Sins has both going on at the same time on a grand scale.

Honestly I would probably hate Sins if any of these things got implemented. Sins actually started out being a fairly realistic game, with orbiting planets and lots of other things that thrilled Sci-fi nerds. Problem was it wasn't very fun, and all of that complexity really did nothing to make the game more entertaining. I think that is exactly what your suggestions are like, and why they won't be implemented.

The simplest idea that could probably be done with a mod is to have a ship with gigantic Anti-matter pool and the transfer anti-matter ability like the disciple (but not the steal anti-matter ability).  You could use an existing ship  or make a new one depending on how good a modder you are.  Between the Advent's AM rechargers and TEC's culture benefit, you could use that to set up a "supply line" (not sure what the Vasari have to complement this).  I think something like that has been suggested before. 

However, I'm not sure if the AI would be able to use that intelligently without underlying code changes.  I just pretend culture and trade represent more than just culture and trade.

And air and food are provided by genetically engineered super-algae.  Yum.

to the OP.  No.

SOASE doesn't deal with crew in any way, shape or form.  SOASE isn't Stargate Universe so the ship systems actually work.  Fuel -they got antimatter and it regenerates.  Food... With how we use them, they don't live long enough to really eat much except that last meal of shrapnel. Fatigue... nope; crews are hopped up on meth and never fatigue.  jk.

I'd like crew as done in Star Trek Armada, but in that game you just warped ship back to dock and got resupplied with new red-shirts.  Doesn't work well for SOASE where you'd have to return a fleet multiple jumps to a module.  I'd just be tacky to have your fleet followed around by a stasis ship full of fresh recruits -not to mention just a sick thought to yank their catheter out as an ejection control to fire their lifepods at the ship in need. 

Dawn of Victory has worked 'Fuel' out, but their mod is a far and above the most comprehensive reworking and stretching of SOASE out there.  It doesn't even resemble the SOASE you've play ad nauseam and we look forward to its final release.

All of this stuff is very interesting from a lore point of view, but becomes pointless micromanagement when brought into gameplay.

I'd love to know the various crew sizes from each ship or what the operational range is, but that's only because I'd use such stats in fanfics or for comparison when worldbuilding for another story.

Sure, I love data as much as the next nerd, but why should an hour long match of Sins become dependent on making sure you have enough MREs in each of your minor frigates? I typically have hundreds of smaller vessals at any given time and do not need to be forced to make sure each one is properly supplied.

Now if we ever had a Sins game where all you did was captain a single ship, I'd support your idea to its fullest capacity. However, this game just has too many ships for your idea to be even relevant.

Fuel would be great if it were there to serve a gameplay purpose like limiting how far your enemy can invade without regrouping for supplies so you have a chance to come back however that is not really needed with Sins. In Sins, defenses, star bases, and choke points fill that role. I imagine that is why the antimatter recharge rates are forgiving.

I have seen it implemented well in other games where is wasn't a chore like Conquest Frontiers War but that was a much faster paced game and the maps in general weren't as large so supply really was the only thing that would give you a fighting chance against being steamrolled. 

I will say one thing I wish was changed is the almost endless supply of fighters and pilots carriers seem to have stored away however I completely understand why it is that way. It does kill some of the immersion or at least make me not really care at all about the survival of  fighters or bombers.I suppose that is to be expected since there really is no attachment to anything smaller than a capital ship and this is more of a fleet engagement game. 

They require antimatter to manufacture. In competitive games, this limitation matters a ton.

now a mobile drone factory is actually a good way to look at them. especially in the advents case where the Anima are controlling them using psychokinesis. so yeh if you think of them as drones your pretty square on the mark

ok. when you put it that way, you make extremely well made sense, i absolutely agree. That is why i (earlier) conceded and said that if these limitations were to be added, it must be a mod. if i make it a mod i will bear in mind what you said. thank you "gamerlamb"

no problem