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[Stone Mill]

Great Posts on both sides, which both deserve mention... I will do my best to try and summarize some of the points made and expand the monolith section.

Oh sure, there may be some butchery as always. But I'll try to get it right.

Mark- on remote mining, it is something I tried at first and never really found a handle on how to do it efficiently. After reading your Posts and those of others, I see how it can make sense. I may try it out again, and re-draw my initial impression of remote mining...

[ June 15, 2003, 03:17: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:

Mark- on remote mining, it is something I tried at first and never really found a handle on how to do it efficiently. After reading your Posts and those of others, I see how it can make sense. I may try it out again, and re-draw my initial impression of remote mining...

I think the thing about remote mining ships that puts people off is the fact that they run out of supply so quickly, and they wonder what they're going to do about the management hassle of dealing with all these stranded spaceships.

Emergency Resupply solves this problem of course, but that's not really "early game" tech.

Actually, my solution has been to ignore the problem. They may be out of fuel, but they go on happily mining. And if eventually you want to replace them, just move them off their asteroids, send in a warship, and blow them up! It's not a completely optimum use of resources, but they paid for their investment cost a long time ago.

[Fyron]

Supplies have nothing to do with it. Remote Mining is an inneficient waste of resources in the long run (esp. in larger games). Just a few resource facilities on a planet built form the asteroids produce more than your ships will.

[LGM]

Remote mining is more desirable when you play a game where you have restricted colonization and cannot colonize every type of planet. Although in the long haul, you may still be better off destroying the planet and recreating it until you get the right type, but that is a very expensive process.

[DavidG]

I think remote mining can be very usefull given the right circumstances. ie: You've pretty much colonized all the planets, the game is not likely to Last long enough to use planet making tech. Given this, why would you not remote mine that asteroid that has 300% minerals?

[minipol]

i do not like to use remote mining because of 2 things:

1. the ai doesn't use it so i consider it to be an unfair advantage.

2. it's too much micromanagement.

[ June 18, 2003, 23:55: Message edited by: minipol ]

[Slick]

How are the updates coming along??

Slick.