Robo Miners - How to use them ?

[Taera]

There is another use for them - when you reach ships as large as a destroyer or a light cruiser you can put more than one mining component.
Of course only one ship can work on a place, but this ship can have as much mining components.
If the asteroid value is 120+ is makes up the maintance cost, especialy is you use Ion Engines lvl. 3 <- simple but cheapest engines.
Decreased maintance by race settings and facilities also helps.

Actually for people playing it "the hard" way it might be the only way to make it up on the minerals in the shortage monhts.
Ice/CO2(my settings) mineral rich planets are a rare catch and two or three mining ships arent rare in my fleet.

Another thing, for normal races it might be logic to mine organics instead of building plants to harvest them - they hardly use it, especialy racial traited ones - crystalline and temporary and psychic etc.
Organics on the other hand might just mine the radioctives 'cuz they barely need them (who needs fusion and stuff to power a claw???)

[Gurduloo]

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And do I have just to move back to the
Planet when mining is done ?

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No, the minerals are transported automatically. You can just leave your ship/satellite there and forget about it until the planet/asteroid runs out of minerals.

[Krsqk]

Slighty OT, but has there been a tweak to asteroid values with the Gold release? In a recent game, I've been converting asteroids to planets (I had two complete asteroid systems and only six colonizable planets in the immediate area), and they have been coming out with incredibly high resource values. Like 200%+. I have two or three planets that are +200% on all three resources. Is this a change? Or has it been like this all along and I just didn't notice it?