Posted by: Andrew
« on: May 02, 2010, 07:44:55 AM »Quote from: "Hyfrydle"
Is the best way to keep a good source of minerals to set-up automines on all bodies in a system with minerals then mass driver them back to the main system planet? Also what's a good mining set-up?It depends.
Minerals are now starting to run out in my newbie aar.
I favour placing automated mines on the most mineral rich sites and mass drivering it back to my main industrial centre , however if a planet has a resoanable colony cost or can be terraformed it can be more efficient to place a colony and normal mines there. To decide which sites to mine I work out what I need most of (Duranium and usually Galicite and Sorium) pick somewhere with decent avaialbility and good reserves for each of them and place autoamted mines that will often also cover the other minerals but if necessary I will pick out sites for them as well. There are usually at least some mineral sites in my home system that I do not bother exploiting as they have small amounts or poor availability
If the best mining sites are in adjacent star systems you will have to use freighters to gather the minerals so it amy not be necessary to gather them in a central location first