remote mining

[Wardad]

It's Not that hard to mine, SATs have 0 maintenance, infinate fuel, and can be moved. You will need to research larger SATs

quote from another thread:
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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
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SATS Happen

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
When you remote mine the values for the planet/asteroids are "degraded".
I suppose that means that the up to 300% rate will slowly drop?
Will it reach zero?
In that case, if I have built a starbase at the asteroids it will continue to require maintnance, Can I destroy it without a self-destruction unit on it?

As for so many things there is a control in SETTINGS.TXT for whether remote mining reduces the value of asteroids and planets. If you do not change this from the default, then yes remote mining will reduce the vlaue of either an asteroid field or any uninhabited planets in the sector. I think value can still reach zero but it might have a 'safety' limit of 1 percent now to make restoration possible with planetary resource enrichment facilities. If your mining base/ship doesn't have a self-destruct component you'll have to send a spaceyard ship to scrap it. Or at least a frigate with some weapons to fire on it.

[ May 16, 2002, 00:09: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[capnq]

If your mining base/ship doesn't have a self-destruct component you'll have to send a spaceyard ship to scrap it. Or at least a frigate with some weapons to fire on it.

The commands to scrap or fire on your own ships are on the Scrap/Analyze/Recycle(/Retrofit) window (hotkey G). I think self-destruct is triggered with Use Component (ctrl-Z), just like a Resupply Pod, but I'm not certain about that.

[Suicide Junkie]

Self-destruct is in the scrap/retrofit/etc window.

[Gandalph]

OK, here are some numbers from a game I am currently playing. It is now turn #58. I have three robo-mineral bases with 4 level one robo-min comps.
MTCE=881min 87org 100rad Prod=5880min

I also have a rad base with 4 level 1 robo-rads.
MTCE=631min 87org 125rad Prod=4998rads

I don't know how this can not be seen as profitable. I did no additional research for this, just normal ship size increases. Once I get a battle station and higher levels of robo's, the numbers get astronomical. I have seen as much as 35kt of resources coming from one base.

EDIT: It allows me to finance a very large fleet without having a lot of planets.

[ May 16, 2002, 04:22: Message edited by: Gandalph ]

[eorg]

how much is the cost of one base and how long it mines before value drops to non-profitable rates?

[Ragnarok]

When I play I put Baseships on the astroids with 4 min miners, 3 farm miners, and 4 rad miners. The result is I make at least 8K in min per turn, at least 6K in farm per turn and at least 5K in rad per turn. The maintance on a Baseship is 2592 min - 140 Farm - 451 rad. So for me it's very profitable. Now only time it don't become profitable is when one of the %'s drop down to around 40% or lower. I've got on that's producing 218% min - 218% farm - and only 33% rad. I'm making alot off the min and farm but the rad I'm only making 500 per turn now. So pretty soon I might have to scrap that one and put a miner on it with only farm and min miners on it. Oh BTW, the % drops by 1 for every turn taken. So if you have a astroid that is say 250% in all 3 areas. Then I'm guessing you have about 20 years before you start losing money on it. That's just my 2 cents.