| Re: What is a mineral fountain ? |
Thu, 27 November 2003 15:54   |
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| Micha | 
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| staz69uk wrote on Thu, 27 November 2003 21:36 |
I'm really sorry if this is a FAQ, but I have tried searching for the answer already and so far have come up with nothing.
What is this "mineral fountain" thing people talk about with AR, and how does it work ?
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Each HW (= Home World) has a minimal mineral concentration of 30, it might look the concentration gets lower and eventually drop down to 1 but as long as the planet is inhabited, you'll be mining at that minimum concentration. If you however would abandon your HW and place a fleet of remote miners in orbit they will mine at the concentration that the planet window is showing, which could be below 30.
Now an AR is living in starbases, which means he can remote mine the planets he is living on. IOW they are the only race that can remote each (not necessarily their own) HW at the minimal concentration as long as they have a base in orbit. They can place 100's, 1000's, 10000's of miners in orbit and the planet will never get depleted, endless minerals in huge numbers that's what the mineral fountain is all about.
One a side note: you don't merge all those miners in one fleet because there is a limit of how much one fleet can mine each turn, that's 1200kT per mineral, the equivalent of 80 Superbugs (that's a midget miner hull with 2 robo-ultra-miners on it).
To give you an idea: in the last big teamgame I played (4 teams of 4 race) our AR was mining 423651kT per mineral per year! He had 28510 of those Superbugs ... and still not enough minerals to feed the hungry HP teammates who were building nubs. 
In a solo game you wouldn't build that much miners, you would only build enough to make sure all your planets have enough minerals to use up all their resources in ship building every year, after you get all the tech you want of course.
mch
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