Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: September 20, 2013, 01:36:21 PM »If you leave the civilian mining colonies as they are, the minerals will be sold the the market (and vanish) and you get 125 credits per year and mining complex (taxes) for them.
If you want the minerals for yourself (Population and Productions screen, Civilians/Ind Status tab), you will pay the civilians 250 credits per year per mining complex (1 civilian mining complex acts as 10 automated mines). Once you do this, a mass-driver is provided by the civilian mining colony for free.
Note: As you are paying per mining complex and not per ton of minerals, civilian mining colonys with several (many) different minerals, preferably in high concentration, are preferable to those with only a few or even one mineral. Of course, if that civilian mining colony mines that mineral, you desperately need, that might not matter that much.
If you want the minerals for yourself (Population and Productions screen, Civilians/Ind Status tab), you will pay the civilians 250 credits per year per mining complex (1 civilian mining complex acts as 10 automated mines). Once you do this, a mass-driver is provided by the civilian mining colony for free.
Note: As you are paying per mining complex and not per ton of minerals, civilian mining colonys with several (many) different minerals, preferably in high concentration, are preferable to those with only a few or even one mineral. Of course, if that civilian mining colony mines that mineral, you desperately need, that might not matter that much.