Robo Miners - How to use them ?

Dr. A. Cula · #1 March 15th, 2002, 11:34 AM

Hi !

First my (simple) Question, then a statement:

How can I use "Robot Miners" ?
Resp. how can I mine asteroid belts
without colonize them ?

I am sure that you can answer this.
If yes - can you write it Step
by Step - cause I am rather dumb.

If you have found "Robot Miners" and how
to use them in the Manual - tell me
the Link.

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I am new to this Game. I like it very much,
(You know what I mean: "What ? Its 3 O'clock
in the morning and I played this 7 hours ?!?!).

But the Manual and Tutorial suck - sorry.

As I can see in this Forum, newbies like
me are unrepresented.

Stand up nubs !!!
I would like to hear an answer from anybody
who is new in this game too, even if the answer doesnt answer my question (uhm.. nice sentence).

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Technoroid · #2 March 15th, 2002, 11:45 AM

I'm a newbie too

You need to place robominer components in a satellite or ship and then move or deploy it in the asteroid field or empty planet. The mining process is automatic.

But I don't understand why the asteroid or planet lose value

Dr. A. Cula · #3 March 15th, 2002, 12:09 PM

You need to place robominer components in a satellite or ship and then move or deploy it in the asteroid field or empty planet. The mining process is automatic.

But I don't understand why the asteroid or planet lose value [/quote]

Well I constructed a ship and moved to the
belt - but how can I see that it works ?
And do I have just to move back to the
Planet when mining is done ?

Growltigga · #4 March 15th, 2002, 12:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dr. A. Cula:
[qb] You need to place robominer components in a satellite or ship and then move or deploy it in the asteroid field or empty planet. The mining process is automatic.

But I don't understand why the asteroid or planet lose value

Well I constructed a ship and moved to the
belt - but how can I see that it works ?
And do I have just to move back to the
Planet when mining is done ?[/QB][/quote]

Dr A Cula, you are not only newby, I am a newby and a champion of newby rights!

Remote mining by the robo miners in your ship is completely automatic. Move the ship to the planet or asteroid belt and you should see a sort of pinky mine cart icon appear on the ship display panel (right hand side of the screen) - this indicates that remote mining is going on

Also, if you look in the empire status window, crown thingy top left panel, you will see that your empire is now gaining revenue from the remote mining

1 word of warning, at early tech levels, the income earned by remote mining may not match the maintenance cost of your ship so you need to keep a weather eye on this. When you develop large satellite tech, you can build remote miners into those and deploy satellites all over the shop.

As to why remote mining permanently reduces resource levels, dunno, that is just the game and one of the clever pros on this thread will need to answer that one

Gurduloo · #5 March 16th, 2002, 02:36 AM

quote:
And do I have just to move back to the
Planet when mining is done ?

No, the minerals are transported automatically. You can just leave your ship/satellite there and forget about it until the planet/asteroid runs out of minerals.

Gryphin · #6 March 15th, 2002, 03:18 PM

Growltigga ,
I'm not a "clever pro", but I'm sure the reason for running out of resourses from mining is "play ballence". They would have to make the Robo Cops too expensive to build if there were no limitations on them. I could make up some "Sci Fi" explanation but I think "play balance" is sufficient.