Deep Space Mining

[wolfen64]

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]

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]

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]

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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.

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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

[Arak Koba]

It really does seem the only economical way to use remote mining is with large sats. Unless you perhaps put remote mining equipment on an outpost starbase to help defray maintenance costs, there doesn't seem to be any reason to use remote mining modules on any ship chassis.

Even if you put a remote miner on an escort chassis without any engines or other components, and then build the ship on the spot, it just doesn't make up for the maintenance cost.

[geoschmo]

I have found I can make a decent profit using destroyers and light cruisers. You can get 2 or 3 mining components on them. If you use them for rad's and ogranics, you can replace those facilities on your homeworld with research fac's or additional mineral mine facilities. In effect they are low tech resource converters.

I haven't tried a light cruiser with 3 mineral miners yet to see if it is cost effective. The robo mimeral comp is more expensive than the other two for some reason. That might make them still inefficent. Unless you play a race with low mainenance. Then it can be a good source of mineral income.

Usually though unless planets are sparse, as in a colonize own type/aptmosphere, the figures don't add up though.

[Wardad]

I may have to use them. The game I'm playing restricts colony planets to home type and atmosphere.

At a single location:
1. If I put two remote mineral miners on a base, will it mine twice the amount?
2. If I mix miner types on a base will it mine all three resources?
3. Will two remote mineral miners SATs mine twice the amount.
4. If I mix SAT miner types will they mine all three resources?


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[Growltigga]

true,the figures dont add up unless you build a few large satellites with robo-miners on and ship these little darlings out to the asteriods/planets you want to mine

I tried the escort chassis concept but then found a great problem when you run through the resources

the irganic/rad extractor/converter concept is a sneaky one I like and will have to try out

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Wardad:
At a single location:
1. If I put two remote mineral miners on a base, will it mine twice the amount?
2. If I mix miner types on a base will it mine all three resources?
3. Will two remote mineral miners SATs mine twice the amount.
4. If I mix SAT miner types will they mine all three resources?

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No. You only get the mining from one vehicle of each type.
4. Yes. Since they are different types.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Do the system scanners work with robot mining, I think it should. A system robotoid facility could just be placed in a system with planets of course.