Useless Robo-Miner component

evader · #1 January 3rd, 2001, 03:24 AM

I like robo miners. If you put them on sats

Then you can you planets for research, Intellagence

geoschmo · #2 January 3rd, 2001, 03:52 AM

Todd248, You stated you could only put one Sat on an asteroid. Are you sure about that? I haven't done it since the 1.19 mod, but I know before that you could. As many sats as you could launch from one ship in a turn are considered "one sat group" by the game. Maybe your sat deployer only has one sat bay and your real problem is you can only launch one sat per turn? That was part of the 1.19 mod I know. Try building a sat deployer with as many sat bays as it will hold. They don't hold as much cargo as a cargo bay, but you can launch more than one per turn that way.

Daynarr · #3 January 3rd, 2001, 04:26 AM

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Todd248, You stated you could only put one Sat on an asteroid. Are you sure about that? I haven't done it since the 1.19 mod, but I know before that you could.

Well, I am not Todd, but I remember reading about this limit somewhere in history.txt file for 1.19 Version. Haven't tried it myself, though.

garvoid · #4 January 3rd, 2001, 04:27 AM

If the sector ONLY has asterroids what can you do??? You need a space port and you can't build that on a sat can you?

Thanks!

Daynarr · #5 January 3rd, 2001, 04:30 AM

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Originally posted by garvoid:
If the sector ONLY has asterroids what can you do??? You need a space port and you can't build that on a sat can you?

Thanks!

You don't need a spaceport to ship materials from the remote mining ships and satellites, they do it automatically.

Todd248 · #6 January 3rd, 2001, 04:56 AM

You can put as many miner satellites on an asteroid as you want. Only 1 will actually produce resources. There is an icon next to the satellite that is currently actively mining. You can only place 1 satellite of any type. You can't place 1 of each type.

geoschmo · #7 January 3rd, 2001, 05:58 PM

Actually you are incorrect. I wasn't sure if it had been changed by 1.19 so I just tested it. I built a small transport with 5 sat bays and loaded it with 5 large sattelites; 2 miners, 2 farmers, and 1 extractor. Went to an asteroid field and dropped all five at once. As before all five were considered 1 "sat group" and I got the mining production from all five sats. Got all three resource types. The only limitation is how many sat bays you can put on one ship. That is the limit imposed by the 1.19 mod. Try it Todd249, you will see.