Does anyone use ROBO MINERS?

[Cranex]

The maintenance on a destroyer is 1200, robo miner mines 800. What gives?

[Devnullicus]

I use them all the time...of course, that's only when I use my DevnullMod which actually makes them worthwhile with the Prospector Hulls =)

[AJC]

dont use ships to robomine - use large satellites. A med to large transport can carry a bunch out to an asteroid system and deploy them all around. Satellites cost nothing to maintain.

[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 06 May 2001).]

[Taqwus]

Or use a base chock-full of resource miners, and take advantage of the half-off maintenance. Don't forget to bring a shipyard ship and scrap the base once mining has reduced resource values to the point where it's not worth it, 'tho.

If you intend to do robo-mining at all, that is. I normally don't, because I'm lazy and find moving battle fleets around FAR more interesting, and in a huge single-human universe where I've time to convert all production to Monolith III's backed with value plants, resources eventually stop being a significant problem.

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[mottlee]

Yup I use them Dev Mod and with Lg sats

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[Devnullicus]

AJC: What an interesting idea. Can you deploy more than 1 satellite per asteroid (and have them all work) or is it just one satellite per asteroid?