Would you use this giant remote miner?

[Fyron]

Actually, you are reading the wrong numbers Atari. The cultures that get maintenacne reduction (in unmodded se4) are:

Engineers: 2%
Merchants: 5%
Renegades: -5% (pay more maintenance)

[minipol]

Originally posted by Slick:
To me, turning that asteroid field into a planet is by far the better choice over remote mining even though it takes longer to set up.

I agree with Slick. This is exactly what i'm doing in my current solo game against the TDM AI. Besides, i consider remote mining unfair in a solo game since the ai doesn't use it.
The AI does build planets though.

[jimbob]

When playing P&N I choose nomads and crank up my maintanance to the sky. A starbase with the recycling node plus the maint. bonus can have you looking at a maintanance cost of nearly zero!!
And of course when you're playing a nomadic race, you cant really colonize, so remote mining is your only real option. I avoid the satelite option however, you just don't rape enough resource to make it worthwhile (IMHO)

[atari_eric]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually, you are reading the wrong numbers Atari. The cultures that get maintenacne reduction (in unmodded se4) are:

Engineers: 2%
Merchants: 5%
Renegades: -5% (pay more maintenance)

Okay, I just reinstalled SEIV gold and applied patch 3 and apparently my OLD install is significantly corrupt or something, as the new one now conforms to these values...

[Taera]

this is a very good but extremly time consuming strategy. i often use medium ships (~cruiser) for that - i load it with normal BR,LS,CQ, then Ion Engines III and the rest with the miners. Then i set orders - go to site -> sentry -> go to ressuply -> repeat orders

and you can forget about it, just check once in a while if it is producing less than it is costing.
Also, if an enemy comes in simultanous, the ship will just break the sentry and go to the ressuply post - probably better defended, and will effectively dodge any possible combats

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Taera:
this is a very good but extremly time consuming strategy. i often use medium ships (~cruiser) for that - i load it with normal BR,LS,CQ, then Ion Engines III and the rest with the miners. Then i set orders - go to site -> sentry -> go to ressuply -> repeat orders

I'm sure you know that resupplying is really a waste of time as it has no effect on mining the field. Only thing it does is of course keeps it full of supplies so that when you go to move your ship to a different location that it can move at full speed instead of just 1. But leaving to do so limits your overall production from the field as you have to pay the maint to travel to the resupply base and back.

[geoschmo]

True enough, but later in the same post Taera mentions the fact that the miners heard for cover if an enemy approaches. This would require them to maintain supplies. And while sending them for resupply does temporarily halt production, getting killed stops it permenantly.

Well, at least until you build a new miner.

Geoschmo