Remote mining

dogscoff · #1 April 26th, 2006, 06:00 AM

Hey. Could someone please check this: http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...ing_%28SEIV%29 over for accuracy? I'm pretty sure it's correct, but I'm not an expert on the subject so some reassurance would be appreciated.

Suicide Junkie · #2 April 26th, 2006, 09:59 AM

Looks good.

Just some typoes like "hgh maintenance costs" near the end, and "or uninhabitted planet" at the beginning

dogscoff · #3 April 26th, 2006, 10:18 AM

Thanks SJ, fixed now.

Captain Kwok · #4 April 26th, 2006, 10:24 AM

I wasn't aware there was a problem with reported remote mining income - are you sure you're not getting crossed up with the point generation abilities that don't show up in game?

Wenin · #5 April 26th, 2006, 10:54 AM

uncolonised = uncolonized?

but only ships and bases can do this. (Only because of size restrictions right?)

dogscoff · #6 April 26th, 2006, 11:37 AM

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uncolonised = uncolonized?

no, uncolonized = uncolonised. You guys in the colonies ought to know that=-)

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but only ships and bases can do this. (Only because of size restrictions right?)

I'm not sure, but I don't think so. I've very little personal experience to back this up, which is why I asked for help. From what I read in the original FAQ text, however, it would appear that although up to three robominers in a stack will work together, they will only do so if they are of different resource types: >1 robominer of any given type in a stack (or on a single sat) will only yield the output of one single miner.

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I wasn't aware there was a problem with reported remote mining income - are you sure you're not getting crossed up with the point generation abilities that don't show up in game?

There was definitely a problem at one point where remote mining income wasn't showing up on the income screen. Whether it's been fixed or not I couldn't tell you.

Thanks for you vigilance everyone.

Alneyan · #7 April 26th, 2006, 11:46 AM

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no, uncolonized = uncolonised. You guys in the colonies ought to know that=-)

Bah, like England isn't a colony herself. Granted, that's a colony that went loose a few centuries ago and that worked up a lot of mischief. Still, you owe us allegiance, obedience, submission, respect and so on and so forth. Trust me on that one.

Something actually productive: there is an extra "you" near the end of the text (last paragraph but one), where you speak about maintenance on remote-mining not mining anything. Still in that area, you might also wish to add something about checking once in a while whether the miners actually produce more resources than they use up.

You may want to add that supplies are irrelevant for remote-mining, even when used on ships. It will drain supplies from the vessel, but not having any supply does not prevent remote-mining from working.

dogscoff · #8 April 26th, 2006, 12:16 PM

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dogscoff said:
no, uncolonized = uncolonised. You guys in the colonies ought to know that=-)

Bah, like England isn't a colony herself. Granted, that's a colony that went loose a few centuries ago and that worked up a lot of mischief. Still, you owe us allegiance, obedience, submission, respect and so on and so forth. Trust me on that one.

LOL! You're right, of course. Apt that a frenchman should dive into this particular discussion: The reason the brits use -ise at the end of verbs like "colonise" and the yanks use -ize is that the -ize was the original spelling, and the americans took it over the pond four score and quite a lot more years ago, there to nurture and preserve certain archaic sillinesses while at the same time inventing lots of stupid new words like "incentivize". Us Brits however, left within sniffing distance of our dear and beloved neighbours the French, started to pick up their habits and began using -ise in imitation of all their -iser verbs. So there you go, once again we can blame everything on the french=-)

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Something actually productive: there is an extra "you" near the end of the text (last paragraph but one)

Fixed, ta.

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You may want to add that supplies are irrelevant for remote-mining, even when used on ships. It will drain supplies from the vessel, but not having any supply does not prevent remote-mining from working.

Done.

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There was definitely a problem at one point where remote mining income wasn't showing up on the income screen. Whether it's been fixed or not I couldn't tell you.

Actually, I could. According to SE4's version history, it was never fixed. But then again, it doesn't appear to have been reported, so maybe I'm dreaming the whole thing. Does anyone else remember a remote-mining-income-not-reported bug or am I hallucinating again?

bearclaw · #9 April 26th, 2006, 12:59 PM

And you CAN have different types of miners on the same vehicle producing. As long as they are all on the same vehicle.

I don't recall an issue with remote mining not showing, just with Point Generation Ability not showing.

dogscoff · #10 April 26th, 2006, 01:15 PM

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And you CAN have different types of miners on the same vehicle producing. As long as they are all on the same vehicle.

That's what the wiki page says- do you read it differently? If so, I need to revise it.

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I don't recall an issue with remote mining not showing, just with Point Generation Ability not showing.

OK, I'll take that line out. Thanks.