Post by: Balibar on January 26, 2010, 08:46:45 PM
Duranium 1,219,297 (0.6)
Boronide 2,752,945 (0.9)
Sorium 2,672,571 (1)
Gallicite 262,554 (0.5) .
As I understand it, an asteroid mining ship only works on asteroids and would not work on Mercury. Is this correct?
As I understand it, the Sorium can be refined into fuel. Does a harvester only work on gas giants? Or could I send a harvester to Mercury?
Let's say I build automated mines and a mass driver for Mercury. Let's say the automated mine is built before the freighter is built. Would the automated mine be working on Earth before I ship it to Mercury?
After the colony is mined out, can one move the automated mines and mass driver somewhere else? Or are these sunk costs?
Post by: Erik L on January 26, 2010, 08:52:42 PM
Quote from: "Balibar"
My survey ship found the following on Mercury:
Duranium 1,219,297 (0.6)
Boronide 2,752,945 (0.9)
Sorium 2,672,571 (1)
Gallicite 262,554 (0.5) .
As I understand it, an asteroid mining ship only works on asteroids and would not work on Mercury. Is this correct?
As I understand it, the Sorium can be refined into fuel. Does a harvester only work on gas giants? Or could I send a harvester to Mercury?
Let's say I build automated mines and a mass driver for Mercury. Let's say the automated mine is built before the freighter is built. Would the automated mine be working on Earth before I ship it to Mercury?
After the colony is mined out, can one move the automated mines and mass driver somewhere else? Or are these sunk costs?
Yes.
Yes/Yes, but it wouldn't do anything.
Yes.
Yes/No.
Post by: sloanjh on January 26, 2010, 09:00:09 PM
Quote from: "Balibar"
My survey ship found the following on Mercury:I think not. My recollection is that an asteriod mining module is an automated mine in space. Here's a pointer to a thread I found by searching for "asteroid mining module": viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1079&p=8647&hilit=+asteroid+mining+module#p8647 (http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1079&p=8647&hilit=+asteroid+mining+module#p8647)
Duranium 1,219,297 (0.6)
Boronide 2,752,945 (0.9)
Sorium 2,672,571 (1)
Gallicite 262,554 (0.5) .
As I understand it, an asteroid mining ship only works on asteroids and would not work on Mercury. Is this correct?
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As I understand it, the Sorium can be refined into fuel. Does a harvester only work on gas giants? Or could I send a harvester to Mercury?Yes. No. The way to refine sorium obtained by normal mines (i.e. from Mercury) is with Fuel Refineries.
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Let's say I build automated mines and a mass driver for Mercury. Let's say the automated mine is built before the freighter is built. Would the automated mine be working on Earth before I ship it to Mercury?Yes.
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After the colony is mined out, can one move the automated mines and mass driver somewhere else? Or are these sunk costs?Yes. No.
John
EDIT: Ok, so now it's Erik and me
Btw, his 2nd answer to 2 is more technically correct than mine - as he says, you can send it there but it won't do anything.
Post by: Balibar on January 26, 2010, 09:30:48 PM