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[Skulky]

While this may not be the proper thread to start discussing how effective remote mining is i just wanted to warn aznparty of the dangers of remote mining.

To start with it can be incredibly useful if you have advanced components/large ships or sats so taht the maintenance costs don't negate anything you make form the mining. Also If you multiple planets/moons in one sector you can make 450%+ in money.

However, it can be very detrimental if you want to colonized the planet at any point or convert the asteroid field into a planet at higher tech levels. And it is often better to use your shipyards and mental energy to build combat ships and colonizers than runnign around managing resources.

One thing i haven't ever thought about is the use of a starbase (or the largest base size in a mod) to mine a large multi-planet sector. Each of hte planets woudl be colonized and would have value enhancers to the moon (no pun intended, use wazoo instead) so that you could have max mining without a value decrease. This might be hardcoded as soemthing that doesn't work and even then unless these planets are really small it woudl be better to build facilites than waste time trying to put starbases and the like

However, it could be an idea for a mod, no planet based miners so everything must be done with remote miners and the value improve tree woudl extend to level 10 or so so that you could have these type of bases (woudl be super large and woudl require that 60+% be miner components). It woudl be a whole thing. email me at speedyhair@pacbell.net if you have thoughts or start a new thread.

Sorry for my OT ramblings.
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