Question About Remote Mining

HercMighty · #1 March 8th, 2003, 02:21 AM

I created a ship with Robo Miners I and sent it to an un-colonized planet. Except I can not figure out what to do now. I can not find an order that makes any sense and it just sits there. I am playing with JLS AI Campaign mod. Am I doing something wrong?

I put it on a small transport 300kt with 7 cargo I.

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Suicide Junkie · #2 March 8th, 2003, 02:33 AM

Select the ship, and look at the bottom the the portrait window.

You should see the maintenance costs, and an additional line (very similar in format) showing you the mining rate of your ship.

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Fyron · #3 March 8th, 2003, 02:42 AM

You do not do anything but leave the ship in the sector to remote mine. It is handled automatically.

If you send a ship into a sector with a planet with moons, the ship will remote-mine the planet and all moons at the same time.

Rigelian · #4 March 8th, 2003, 02:47 AM

The economics of doing this depend on your empire's maintenance costs. With a decent maintenance bonus remote mining can pay off. The downside is that the value of the object decreases by 1% for each turn you mine it - the upside is that this does not increase with the amount of mining components - so having a ship with several remote mining components is a good idea. If it's a really excellent site, and you don't plan to colonise it, you can even build a base there to gain more maintenance benefits.

JLS · #5 March 8th, 2003, 02:51 AM

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Originally posted by HercMighty:
I put it on a small transport 300kt with 7 cargo I.

This does not sound like you put a Robo-Miner on the design HercMighty...
Small transport, Basic Bridge, Life support, 3 Engines, one supply bay and the ROBO-MINER component...

There would be no be no room for 7 Cargo Bay I...

OK?

Then like SJ,Fryon and Rigelian, said, bring it to the ASTROIDE or planet and it will mine automatically for you. Remember, this will permanently deplete targets resources.

However level one ROBO will not yield much profit.

I recommend you design a Mining Outpost. This done by F-3 [Create] satellite and design and launch as you would a satellite however only one per Asteroid or planet�

EDIT: WOW, you guys type fast

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Puke · #6 March 11th, 2003, 12:04 AM

can you get the AI to use remote mining? this would be pretty cool, if you could. I dont remember a ship type for remote mining, so i kind of doubt it.

has anyone ever tried this? is it possible to instruct the AI to deploy bases or build sats anywhere besides a planet? if you could somehow tell it to build a base or deploy a sat at a minefield, you could make sure that the base type was a miner...