Something mildly interesting about remote mining

Arkcon · #1 December 21st, 2002, 05:46 AM

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Originally posted by PvK:
Up until now, it was kinda advanced learning, apparently. Would be good to add it to Encyclopaedia Malfidorica. Perhaps I should learn how to add stuff to that some time.

PvK

I figured it out ... by definition therefore, it is very simple.

Just go there, find a dead link, and click on the ? mark.

Or click the edit button at the bottom of the page.

It will ask for a user name, no password is needed.

geoschmo · #2 December 21st, 2002, 06:25 AM

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Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Could be something someone would want to do on purpose I suppose.

Geoschmo

And I thought you were doing it on purpose! I was getting diddly squat from you in "Terran Prime".

Oh see now that was an equally devious but not nearly so complicated tactic called, "Make treaties with everybody, live off the treaty income, scrap all your resource facilities and build research facilities on all your planets."

That wasn't so much an effort to keep you from enjoying the benefit of trade income as it was a way to find room to build enough research facilities. That Only own type/only own atmosphere was tough. That entire game I never found a free planet to colonize. Only ones I ever got other than my homeworlds were ones I took from the Knights and made from asteroids.

Geoschmo

dumbluck · #3 December 22nd, 2002, 02:16 AM

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...That Only own type/only own atmosphere was tough. That entire game I never found a free planet to colonize. Only ones I ever got other than my homeworlds were ones I took from the Knights and made from asteroids.
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Yeoch! Hmmm, maybe I DON'T want those settings for my next PBW game...

Grandpa Kim · #4 December 21st, 2002, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by dumbluck:

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...That Only own type/only own atmosphere was tough. That entire game I never found a free planet to colonize. Only ones I ever got other than my homeworlds were ones I took from the Knights and made from asteroids.
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Yeoch! Hmmm, maybe I DON'T want those settings for my next PBW game...

Actually it was a lot of fun mainly because it was different. I (and others I presume) had to learn a whole new way to play the game. Geo did it by mining asteroids; I built planets. The killer was only 1 planet in 14 was usable! You couldn't simply use the standard,mass colonization strategy; you had to work.