[alasyr]

To Eisenhans
Sorry, but planet value is decreased by 1% per minning ship/base not per miner.
With that and 150% starting value minning battlestation with 14 robo-miners I could mine for 120 turns making a profit.It would mine 914760 minerals, spent 322500 on maintenance and initial cost contributing 592260 minerals to empire before shutdown.

formulaes:

v0 initial planet value (1.5)
vd planet value decrease (0.01)
q quantity of miners (14 in my case)
r mining rate (600 for miner I)
i initial investment (base cost, 20K in my case)
m maintenance (2500 in my case)

t number of turns t=0 mark the turn when station starts minning

g(t)=r*q*(t+1)*(v0-t*vd/2) total minerals mined

e(t)=i+(t+1)m total expences



[This message has been edited by alasyr (edited 16 January 2001).]