Remote minning

[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.

[Eisenhans]

You can remote mine planets? Cool!

[DirectorTsaarx]

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]

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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.

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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]

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

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[Tomgs]

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.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 12 January 2001).]