Remote mining reduces production?

[raynor]

Here is the description of the Robo Miners I:

Description := Small autonomous robots which can mine asteroids or empty planets remotely, but it will decrease their value permanently.

If a planet starts out at 100% minerals after 100 turns of remote mining, the planet will be at 0% minerals.

You can only have one ship, base or satellite mining a planet at one time. You don't pay any maintenance on the satellite but you also don't get much out of it. Even remote mining with ships/bases is hard to keep profitable. I'm sure folks who play as pirates will turn off the flag that makes remote mining reduce the asteriod/planet value.


[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 22 March 2001).]