ship mainenance cost

[Nordhead]

I have a question concerning ship maintenance costs when it comes to designing a ship that mines asteriods. Early on I designed a miner using a Frigate ship and installed a robo mining 1 component an found out my maintenace costs far exceeded the amount of minerals mined per turn which does not make sense. Can someone tell me what type ship and components to install in order to have a positive mineral flow

thanks

[apache]

Well, satellites don't pay maintainance...

[DirkHowitzer]

There is no profitable way to remote mine with big ships unless you reduce the maintenance costs or increase mining gains in one of the .txt files. Though, as stated previously, sats have no maint. costs. It is my opinion that remote mining is not feasible.

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[Jubala]

With large sats you can remote mine without maintainance costs, but you can only have one sat per sector to mine so the flow of resources won't be great. You can also build really big ships to get a positive flow but imo the best way without modding is to build a mining starbase. 50% upkeep reduction does alot. Have to get a ship yard ship there to do it though, which means you got to have cruisers. Smallest ship that can house a space yard.

[Barnacle Bill]

>With large sats you can remote mine without
>maintainance costs, but you can only have
>one sat per sector to mine so the flow of
>resources won't be great.

The latest patch is supposed to have fixed that, so you can remote mine with every satallite in the group. I haven't tested it, though.

[Jubala]

I did. Only one sat mines even if you have 14 there.