Ship Config for Mining

[Triumvir Blap]

I've seen the AI mining asteroids with Destroyer class ships.

Now .. I can't put together a config that will show a profit (vs ship maint. costs) for anything less than a Lt.Cru. and *that* is marginal.

What are y'all using?

[Courageous]

At a guess, people aren't doing this much right now. Can you fit a robo miner on a large satellite? Satellites don't pay maintenance.

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[Courageous]

Come to think of it, that won't work because of the restriction of one-per-asteroid field. It would seem to me that the thing to do would be for MM to support a "miner" hull which maybe doesn't pay maintenance costs or some such. It could then demand a higher than 50% miner allocation or something.


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[Puke]

Courageous, that is a wicked-cool idea. I have been working on a orbiting mining laser component that would give effective mining capabilities to stations or ships, but your idea of a mining ship hull is even better.

that hull is getting implemented on my game, Thanks!

[Tomgs]

Another option is to edit the components.txt to either lower the cost of the robominers components or to increase the amount of resources generated per turn by the component.

[Tenryu]

Here are 3 examples of file additions I made that address the mining problem. Hope they help.