[Arkcon]

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The robominers, robofarmers, and roboradextractors - hereafter called miners will give you resources without you having to colonize a planet.

You use them when you can't colonize the source 'cause the planet type can't be colonized by you, or because the source is an asteroid field.

You have to get them there though. You can put them on a large sattelite, the downside is it will take you a while to research large sattelites.

You can put them on a ship, but your ship is made of minerals, and it will take more than a few miners crammed on a ship to break even on maintenance. Only one ship can mine one spot.

You could put them on a base, which has less maintenance. But you'll have to build it there, bases can't move.

They only work where you don't have a colony, so you could build the base at a planet that has a moon and mine the moon only, for example.

The robo-miners also decrease the value of what they're mining a little at a time.

There are mods that can change this. Otherwise, not very usefull

[ September 23, 2002, 01:39: Message edited by: Arkcon ]