Remote minning

alasyr · #1 January 12th, 2001, 03:01 PM

In my Last game of SEIV I was experimenting with bases for remote minning.I built one battlestation on a gas giant world with two moons.The interesting thing that struct me by suprise is that newly built battlestation was minning all 3 bodies at the same time
(after I abandoned the tiny rock I used to build it).As all 3 of those was 100% average and I had 14 remote miners I (600) on BS it made a whooping 25.2K of minerals in a single turn making the BS pay for itself in 1-2 turns.

Eisenhans · #2 January 12th, 2001, 05:12 PM

You can remote mine planets? Cool!

DirectorTsaarx · #3 January 12th, 2001, 05:24 PM

Sounds like a small Version of Cloud City from Star Wars...

Sorry - couldn't resist - I remember someone asking how a Cloud City could exist in SE4...

Baron Munchausen · #4 January 12th, 2001, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by alasyr:
In my Last game of SEIV I was experimenting with bases for remote minning.I built one battlestation on a gas giant world with two moons.The interesting thing that struct me by suprise is that newly built battlestation was minning all 3 bodies at the same time
(after I abandoned the tiny rock I used to build it).As all 3 of those was 100% average and I had 14 remote miners I (600) on BS it made a whooping 25.2K of minerals in a single turn making the BS pay for itself in 1-2 turns.

Yep, discovered this myself a little while ago. Very nice. A single ship/base can produce as much as a medium planet with a breathable atmosphere this way. I hope it's considered a 'feature' and not a bug. Wouldn't want to lose this nifty trick. But the AI has to learn how to use it...

Nyx · #5 January 12th, 2001, 11:06 PM

Now this is a really, really cool strategy. Thanks for passing it on!

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Tomgs · #6 January 13th, 2001, 12:52 AM

Yes this has been possible since the first demo. That is the Last time I used it however because if you don't turn off the depletion from mining the minerals on that group of planets are lost forever unlike colonizing it. It may give you more minerals for a short time but I would rather have a smaller amount that is always there. It may however be a good thing to do if you have a group of planets that you will use for research anyway.

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Kimball · #7 January 13th, 2001, 01:12 AM

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
....if you don't turn off the depletion from mining the minerals on that group of planets are lost forever unlike colonizing it.

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Are you referring to "finite resoureces" at game startup?

Tomgs · #8 January 13th, 2001, 08:59 AM

No I mean remote mining will deplete resources even in a game without finite resources. Unless you turn off this option by modifing the settings.txt file to change from true to false the statement: remote mining decreases asteroid value. The way this is stated planet value might not be affected but I know it was in the demo and I haven't used remote mining since then.

HAL · #9 January 13th, 2001, 05:12 PM

In a system with nothing but asteroids, if I remote mine will those resource be available to my empire? There is no starport, and I have never tried it out.

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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

geoschmo · #10 January 13th, 2001, 05:18 PM

Remote mining does not require a spaceport to get the resources back to your empire.