Remote Mining Economics

[Saxon]

A hopeful question, but one I am fairly sure the answer is no.

If you have a facility (the Nature Shrine in the Religious Tech tree) that improves all statistics of the planets in the system, does that counter the loss of 1% per turn due to mining? Or does it only improve the stats for planets which you have colonized? This could be a way around the loss of planets due to over mining.

[Suicide Junkie]

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Or does it only improve the stats for planets which you have colonized?

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Only colonized.

If you stuck a colony on there and built 10 Value improvement plants, you could get any planet up to 255% value in only about 80 turns.

[Taqwus]

Do RM ships work cloaked? Hrm.

One evil remote-mining thought that came to mind was that of a maintenance-free, crystalline race (yes, this might take many racial points...) sending out hordes of cheap remote-mining ships across the quadrant. The objective would be to reduce the resources available to non-crystalline players, while crystalline players could use their solar generators. If combined with generous use of planet-value-depleting intel operations, it might have an effect...

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
Do RM ships work cloaked? Hrm.

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**YES** they work cloaked! So add a cloak and scanner jammer, take off the repair bay as a very Last retrofit, and you can get 24 miners on board. Thanks for bringing that up!
If you can afford to keep the repair bay on, do so - it could come in handy.....