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