Remote Mining

[Jubala]

Just ran a test of remote mining. I cut the mineral cost for mining components in half and then I built some different size ships and went mining. Even with costs cut in half there's no point in building a mining ship until you can squeeze in at leat two mining components and that means destroyers. Still aint much use as it will run out of supply pretty quickly.

Here's where I noted something weird. No matter the size of the ship the depletion thing would still happen. Test: A frigate with one mineral miner and a baseship with 14 mineral miners. Result: No matter which ships mines the belt the concentration drops one notch. Makes no sense in my book.

FYI:
Belt mineral concentration: 127%
1 mining component frigate upkeep: 1302
1 mining component frigate income: 1016
14 mining component baseship upkeep: 4480
14 mining component baseship income: 14224

That's with the cost (and thus the upkeep) of the mining components cut in half.