Remote Mining

[Tenryu]

[quote]Originally posted by nweaver:
Yes, Nweaver, your comments are basically correct.
Just trying to work with what I have. Like some here not using mines, I don't use these hulls for anything but mining.

For what it's worth, what I really wish we had were a few other ' REQUIREMENTS'. Like: The ability to INCLUDE or EXCLUDE only certain components on a hull AND better deal with maintenance issues. Such as;
1.Requirement Pct (ANY COMPONENT or GENERAL GROUP). Where, :=0, you cann't put any aboard and no comment means you can load up as many as you want aboard.
2.Requirement No and Requirement Must Have(Any component or general group), 'nough said.
3. A line for every component, facility, mount or vehicle that would let you set a Specific maintenance cost % of materials used to construct the item rather then the general everything costs x% and some things nothing. In this manner the maintenance cost of a unit would be the sum of the costs of all its bits and pieces.

OH yeah! And I want to drop Ground troops and engage in tactical planetary combat too.
On land, sea, and air, underwater and underground.
Oh well, others have covered many other similar wishes and wants so I'll shut up now.

[Emperor Zodd]

Maintanence costs should be lowered and price of ships not units should be raised.

[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 07 January 2001).]

[Jubala]

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Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
Maintanence costs should be lowered and price of ships and units should be raised.

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Why?

[Emperor Zodd]

If maintainence costs were lower it would be economical to robo-mine,and to offset the lower maintainence cost, ships (not units or facilities) would need to cost more.

[SirDarwin]

Yes of course if you raised ship costs too much it would just have the same effect.

[Barnacle Bill]

I have not tried remote mining in a while, but didn't the latest patch fix the problem where only one satellite in a group mines?

The "history" file for the patch under Version 1.14 (one of the intermediate beta test Versions in between publicly released Versions 1.11 and 1.19) says:

4. Fixed - A satellite group cannot remote mine with all of the satellites present.

I took this to mean that if you put a group containing a large number of remote mining satellites, every remote mining component will produce.

Has anybody tested this? I'm in the process of updating my V1.19 files with the changes I made in V1.11, so I can't run just now.

[apache]

Yeah, we can remote mine with satellite Groups. I usually don't though, just because I don't like to waste time researching large satellites.