RoboMiner Questions

[Arbitrary Aardvark]

If you put a robominer on a satellite, will it collect resources? How can you tell?

Also, if you put multiple robominers on a ship, will they collect more resources than a single?
I've noticed that if you put two ships with robominers in a system only one will collect resources.

[Growltigga]

Arbitrary Aardvaark (great handle BTW)

the only ways to tell if a remote miner is working is (i) you will see a sort of pinkish ore cart on the unit schematic on the system screen when it is mining (I think) and/or (ii) from the empire status screen, you will see a plus figure for incoke generated on the remote mining line

WRT number of miners, I think you can only remote miner at each location. I have not tried having one of each type at each location so dont know if that will work

[Suicide Junkie]

One ship can have multiple robominers. A base is probably better, since you pay less maintenance on it, and it is bigger.
A pure-mineral ship and a pure-organics ship cannot both work in the same sector.

Planetary value goes down 1% no matter how many miners you're using at once.

Sats can stack one sat for each of the resource types, but not stack on a specific resource.
IE: Having a mineral sat works. Adding an organics sat also works. Adding a second mineral sat to the stack does not work.

[capnq]

The ore cart icon (which I could swear is blue, not pink) also appears under the ship on the (F6) Ships list. There's a line in the miner's info display that lists how much it's producing, as well.

[Gandalph]

I currently have a base with 8 RM III's, 3 RR I's, and 2 RF I's sitting on an asteroid valued at 216%, 216%, 213% respectively. It is producing 14kt ore, 2.5 kt org, and 3.8kt rad. Maintenance costs are 1540 ore, 81 org, 262 rad. As you can see it is quite profitable.

[Krsqk]

I think this really wasn't profitable until Gold came out. Before, most asteroids had resources similar to planets. Now, I've seen values approaching 300%. That's really profitable when you convert it into a huge breathable planet and fill it with Monolith IIIs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[DirectorTsaarx]

I had just noticed the "new" resource values for asteroids in my Gold Version game; I've been ignoring asteroids for so long, I hadn't even looked. Letting asteroid resource values go to 300% really makes remote mining more useful. Guess it's time to start building mining bases...