Help-newbie-Mining remotely

[couslee]

And what pray tell do you do with the expensive stations once the field is strip-mined? Do you take a spaceyard ship and recycle it? Personally, I tried the base mining once, and found it to be more expense than what it is worth, as compared to a ship that can move around from field to field as needed, and can run out the back door when necessary. I put them on sentry once in place, and as soon as an enemy appears, they haul arse the other way, often to a mine field for protection until an attack fleet can arrive, if necessary.

I still think it's a bug if they continue to mine after the supplies are gone. I doubt that is the intention of the game design, otherwise, why even have it use supplies. imho

(I am just going to have to test that before I can believe it. )

[ February 10, 2003, 23:37: Message edited by: couslee ]

[Preacherman]

i personally like space station mining.

let's just say that station costs 20k (a big station) another 3k-4k maintenance that makes 24k + 10k for the ship to build and you are at 34k.

place it around an asteroid that does 260% minerals and you earn roughly 26k per turn, break even after 2 turns and then it is +20k surplus each round.

throw in stealth armor or cloaking and you got a space station that is not so obvious to your enemies. but beware of friends that try to mine the same spot as your cloaked station... that can ruin your income...

[couslee]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by couslee:
Another consideration when building a remote mining ship is that it uses supplies.

And if it runs out of supplies?? Who cares, it keeps on mining. (At least that is what I noticed in a recent P&N game)

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Then what is the point in having it use supplies? perhaps it's a bug find. I might do a single remote mining ship test in my current game, once I get far enough in the tech tree to do it. (tis a new game )