How to Mine Asteroids?/Effects of Storms?

Barnacle Bill · #1 November 17th, 2000, 11:23 PM

I've found what appears to be a bug in the code related to remote mining. There is a parameter in the settings.txt file for whether asteriods are depleted by remote mining. I set this to "False". However, they still deplete (1% per turn).

In the in-game setup, I do NOT have "finite resources" turned on, and colony planets do not deplete.

I am aware that changes to the game files do not affect saved games (apparently all the data from the files at the time the game was set up is stored in the save game file). To test changes to the text files, I relaunch the program after editing the file, then start a new game at high tech and play a couple of turns to test.

Other changes to settings.txt seem to work (max systems, for example). It is just this one concerning remote mining that doesn't (so far).

Baron Munchausen · #2 November 18th, 2000, 03:06 AM

Yes, this has been a known bug for some time. They finally found what was wrong and fixed it. This will be in the patch coming soon to a site hear you.

Jubala · #3 November 18th, 2000, 06:22 PM

The first thing I will do when I get the full Version is to kill (cut in half or so) the build cost of remote mining components so it actuall makes sense to remote mine. It will make the ships cheap to build but they will also be costeffective to operate so I can live with that.

Taqwus · #4 November 18th, 2000, 07:55 PM

On storms...

Can you create a storm right on top of an enemy planet, or a warp point?

(Might be tempting, if mildly eccentric -- a cloaked CA skulking about, manipulating space weather...)

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Praetor Onetcao · #5 November 18th, 2000, 08:18 PM

Jubala, don't kill the mining. Use Large satellietes. Its EXTREMELY cost effective. Build a few hundred sattelites, fill up your reserves, and load them back up onto the carrier. Haven't tried fighters yet, though.

LintMan · #6 November 19th, 2000, 03:05 AM

The problem with sats is that you can only use large sats, and to tech up to them costs quite a large amount of research points (I'm guessing at least 500K), and then you have to spend the resources and time to build the sats and the sat layer. So they aren't useful for mining until quite a bit into a low-tech game.

James Sterrett · #7 November 19th, 2000, 03:18 AM

Sats are 50,000 per level; you get the first level for free. Researching the next two will take a total of 250,000 RPs.