Re: Help-newbie-Mining remotely
 

And what pray tell do you do with the expensive stations once the field is strip-mined? Do you take a spaceyard ship and recycle it? Personally, I tried the base mining once, and found it to be more expense than what it is worth, as compared to a ship that can move around from field to field as needed, and can run out the back door when necessary. I put them on sentry once in place, and as soon as an enemy appears, they haul arse the other way, often to a mine field for protection until an attack fleet can arrive, if necessary.

I still think it's a bug if they continue to mine after the supplies are gone. I doubt that is the intention of the game design, otherwise, why even have it use supplies. imho

(I am just going to have to test that before I can believe it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

[ February 10, 2003, 23:37: Message edited by: couslee ]

Re: Help-newbie-Mining remotely
 

i personally like space station mining.

let's just say that station costs 20k (a big station) another 3k-4k maintenance that makes 24k + 10k for the ship to build and you are at 34k.

place it around an asteroid that does 260% minerals and you earn roughly 26k per turn, break even after 2 turns and then it is +20k surplus each round.

throw in stealth armor or cloaking and you got a space station that is not so obvious to your enemies. but beware of friends that try to mine the same spot as your cloaked station... that can ruin your income...

Re: Help-newbie-Mining remotely
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And if it runs out of supplies?? Who cares, it keeps on mining. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif (At least that is what I noticed in a recent P&N game)</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Then what is the point in having it use supplies? perhaps it's a bug find. I might do a single remote mining ship test in my current game, once I get far enough in the tech tree to do it. (tis a new game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )