| Re: Your colonists have discovered a strange artifact ... how many of them? |
Wed, 15 May 2019 03:50   |
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 magic9mushroom |
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ricks03 wrote on Fri, 19 April 2019 13:39Each artifact found is ~ 200 resources.
This is a bit odd, because when I just booted up the Feds and colonised a planet at 2401 I got results of more like 10-35 resources per artifact.
A colony ship with QJ5 and four levels of miniaturisation costs 21/8/22/28. You'll recover 15/6/16 (75%, rounded down) for a total expenditure of 6/2/6/28 plus some shipping overhead. That seems too much to pay for the artifacts I'm seeing. With Spore Clouds (13/8/11/13 -> 4/2/3/13) or glitch coloships (11/0/14/20 -> 3/0/4/20) it's more plausible, though still pretty tight. Glitch minicols are obviously a complete steal (3/0/3/5 -> 1/0/1/5), since you can do the shipping back with another ship of the same design and still be under cost. Meanwhile, Pintas are a pretty raw deal (28/13/27/37 -> 7/4/7/37) for the artifact alone, although ARs have other (and much better) reasons to flagpost everything (the extra mining and resources more than pay for it without even needing the artifact).
(Of course, most people play with the colonisation glitch banned, so those are mostly of theoretical interest.)
EDIT: The above was with 100 pop. With a full colony ship I'm getting numbers more similar to ricks03's. There seems to be a cap of 275 resources per artifact. So it matters how much you use, but only up to a fairly-low point.
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