Hey, another question

[Narrew]

well, then I will stick with my Battle stations then. 100 sats all working together would be a bit excessive, but oh well.

[mottlee]

Your miners will not offset the maint of a Starbase (or Battle Station)...best to go with sats and one of each in a sector..no maint and as said can be moved when the resorces dry up

[ May 28, 2003, 19:21: Message edited by: mottlee ]

[Narrew]

I am playing a solo game with the TDM + FQM mod. As an example of an asteroid is 250%, 230%, 225%. I have a Base station above it with 10 mineral, and 2 each org and rad (lvl 3 extractors). I mine 20kt, 3792, 3568, maint is 3125, 75, 337. So I am getting a large surplus of minerals.

I do remember reading that some mods have been fixed (the mining rate), just don't know if what I see is the norm or not.

[Suicide Junkie]

Just imagine the kind of resources you could be pulling in if you formed that into a planet and filled it with monoliths!

No maintenance, and you don't deplete the value each turn.

Me watches sadly as the poor, defenseless asteroids are strip mined by the heartless machinery of the starbase

[ May 28, 2003, 20:05: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
No maintenance, and you don't deplete the value each turn.

Me watches sadly as the poor, defenseless asteroids are strip mined by the heartless machinery of the starbase

Is that in a Finite game? or do the asteroids lower the percentage because of mining? If that is the case, then making planets out of them would be an option, if I can wait that long.

Sorry if I seem slow

[Phoenix-D]

Asteroids do deplete in value when you mine them, even in Infinite games. I always thought that was kind of silly.

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Asteroids do deplete in value when you mine them, even in Infinite games. I always thought that was kind of silly.

ARRRGHHHH!!! well, that puts a serious cramp in my style I wanted to be a true capitalist, I wanted to exploit them asteroids for everything I could squeeze out of them, and NOW I find that the GODs play an evil trick on me

...slinks away looking for something to exploit