Deep Space Mining

wolfen64 · #1 March 19th, 2002, 12:50 PM

Yesterday SEIVG hits my letter box and now i started a brand new game, Ha!
Right now i have several mining ships operating and additionaly a tanker to supply them.
Question: do the mining ships still gather resources from remote mining when they ran out of supplies?

wolfen64 · #2 March 19th, 2002, 01:02 PM

Well i tried it on my own.
They still produce resources; so why says the component description that the robo-extractors use supplies? Is it a bug?

dogscoff · #3 March 19th, 2002, 01:23 PM

I'm not sure. You might find that they do use supplies, but that they just don't stop working when you run out. Perhaps more of a "feature" than a bug

Are you finding the remote minig economical? Most people find that by the time you've paid maintenence on the mining ship, it's hard to generate a worthwhile amount of resources. A good trick is to find an empty planet with a few moons and send your miner there. It will mine every uncolonised planet, moon and asteroid field in that sector at once, which can double (triple, quadruple) the miner's output.

Or are you playing Devnullmod or something, which has modded various parts of the game to make the remote miners more worthwhile?

Growltigga · #4 March 19th, 2002, 01:43 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Are you finding the remote minig economical? Most people find that by the time you've paid maintenence on the mining ship, it's hard to generate a worthwhile amount of resources. A good trick is to find an empty planet with a few moons and send your miner there. It will mine every uncolonised planet, moon and asteroid field in that sector at once, which can double (triple, quadruple) the miner's output.

That's a good trick - I find remote mining quite rewarding but then, I put my remote mining units in large satellites, no maintenance and you just deploy then a la desiree

wolfen64 · #5 March 20th, 2002, 02:36 AM

No, i do not use any mods right now. In the new game i started in a system surrounded by nebulas and asteroid systems and no good planets nearby. So i just tried remote mining and tried to do something usefull with those 200+% mineral asteroids. Right now it is not so bad, the mining ships gather ca. 1500 minerals and use 750 for maintenance (robo extractors level I); that's quite fair in this early stage of the game (30 turns played).
Anyway, that's really good ideas: to use satellites on planets with moons. I will try.

Growltigga · #6 March 20th, 2002, 02:44 AM

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Originally posted by wolfen64:
that's really good ideas: to use satellites on planets with moons. I will try.

Wolfen64, dont just restrict the use of satellite based robo-miner platforms to planets with moons -like american express, the satellite miners are acceptable anywhere