Deep Space Mining

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Wardad:
At a single location:
1. If I put two remote mineral miners on a base, will it mine twice the amount?
2. If I mix miner types on a base will it mine all three resources?
3. Will two remote mineral miners SATs mine twice the amount.
4. If I mix SAT miner types will they mine all three resources?

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No. You only get the mining from one vehicle of each type.
4. Yes. Since they are different types.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Do the system scanners work with robot mining, I think it should. A system robotoid facility could just be placed in a system with planets of course.

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:


1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No. You only get the mining from one vehicle of each type.
4. Yes. Since they are different types.

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Whoa! You can have one sat of EACH miner type on a location and each of the produces? That's a change from past behavior if it works. It used to be only ONE vehicle could mine at a time, period.

And, btw dogscoff, the best way to use remote extraction is on a large base. Remember, bases get 50 percent maintenance reduction. So even mineral extraction is worthwhile with a base, and you can cram many of them into a base but only one into a satellite. It's often possible to get more resources out of a small or tiny planet with a hostile atmosphere by using a remote mining base than by landing a (domed) colony!

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Whoa! You can have one sat of EACH miner type on a location and each of the produces? That's a change from past behavior if it works. It used to be only ONE vehicle could mine at a time, period.

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You can have one vehicle of each type mining in the same sector and they all get their resources. You can't have more than one sat with the same type component though. AFAIK it's been that way since they made the change to only allow one vehicle of each type.

Geoschmo

[geoschmo]

However, there is apparently a restriction against having more than one ship with mining components working in the same sector, even if they have different kinds of comps.

To sum up:

Three large sats each with different comps can mine the same sector. Additional sats of any type get nothing.

One ship (and I am assuming base here too, it would take too long to test that) only can mine per sector, regardless of types of mining components onboard. But you can put as many mining comps as will fit on that one ship and get all the resources from them.

Geoschmo

[capnq]

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Unless you perhaps put remote mining equipment on an outpost starbase to help defray maintenance costs, there doesn't seem to be any reason to use remote mining modules on any ship chassis.

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Early in a low tech start, it's the only option. Satellites Level 3 is a lot of research points that might be put to better use elsewhere.

Though the rare times I've used remote miners in that situation, it's usually for the minerals to radioactives conVersion.

[Arak Koba]

Just goes to show my newbie-ness:

I thought that only ONE miner module could operate in a system at a time.

That blows my whole remote mining policy out the window!~