remote mining

[eorg]

gandalf i will try your idea in my next game :-) let's see what people think

question: how frequently you use REMOTE MINING in your MULTIPLAYER games

[Bman]

Well I voted Never, but I do have some remote miners in the construction queue in some of my PBW games right now. So my vote will soon change to "I've tried it"

[Captain Kwok]

I haven't played alot of PBW games but in the ones I have I use remote miners early on to get some extra minerals esp. around planets with moons...good bonus there. The only thing I dislike is they use lots of supplies so you have to remember to replenish them often or use solar collectors.

[DirectorTsaarx]

As I said over in the FAQ thread, now that asteroids can have resource values up to 300%, I plan to use remote mining more often. It still has drawbacks (researching up to cruisers, so you can put space yards on a ship, researching base stations/starbases and/or better remote mining components); but it may be faster to build a remote mining base in an asteroid system than it is to set up a new colony. And the asteroid systems are likely to have 2x the resource value. Not to mention the fact that if you colonize a non-breathable atmosphere planet you can't put many mining facilities on it.

I'd also guess that if you use the "colonize only breathable" and/or "colonize only home planet type" options, remote mining becomes even more important...

[Suicide Junkie]

My vote will change soon too, but that's only because I'm playing a nomadic race in one of the games. I abhor the ecological damage that remote miners do; its almost as bad as the xenocidal glassing of planets, but easier to avoid.

Note: I have settings.txt set for a 30% loss when a planet is glassed, so you can imagine how much worse I feel about remote mining in the standard game.
!!!Remote mining for a year is as bad as glassing the planet, people !!!

[Ruatha]

When you remote mine the values for the planet/asteroids are "degraded".
I suppose that means that the up to 300% rate will slowly drop?
Will it reach zero?
In that case, if I have built a starbase at the asteroids it will continue to require maintnance, Can I destroy it without a self-destruction unit on it?

[ May 15, 2002, 21:39: Message edited by: Ruatha ]