| Re: Remote mining.... Do you? |
Wed, 25 June 2003 18:24   |
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 boneandrew |
 | Crewman 1st Class |
Messages: 35
Registered: June 2003
Location: Detroit | |
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I like to remote mine. It's the only place in the game where I can get mines that are recyclable - moving to fresh souces instead of having 'em stuck at that planet with all 1 concentrations.
Perhaps a lot of people don't like 'em because miners cost a LOT of ironium and a bit of germanium. And the reason most people really need hordes of minerals to build those missile ships. So, a lot of people just don't build miners to save some short-term ironium. But, a game example for me: a mini-miner hull with 2 maxi-miners, fuel mizer, and fuel pod costs 87kt iromium, and mines 17kt of ironium per turn from a planet with 49 concentration. This is 5.1 turns to pay it back - usually, I'm mining planets with a higher concentration than this if I can help it, and of course we all like to use those higher tech miners. After that, free minerals. In the long term, remote mining certainly does help out the mineral supply. It's better than colonizing those -4.5% worlds and waiting for the population to feebly squeeze the minerals out of the planet.
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