Aurora 4x

New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Zook on August 13, 2012, 04:08:09 AM

Title: How large is my shortfall of minerals?
Post by: Zook on August 13, 2012, 04:08:09 AM
I mine much less than I try to turn into ships. I get a lot of messages about missing minerals for production, and I can see my non-existant stockpiles and the amount I need to produce all I've ordered. But I'd like to know how much I'm lacking on a per-month basis. Also, how much my mass drivers and ships brought in last month. With the information I have, it's hard to say whether need 50% more Duranium or 500%. Or am I missing something?
Title: Re: How large is my shortfall of minerals?
Post by: Theokrat on August 13, 2012, 04:28:07 AM
I mine much less than I try to turn into ships. I get a lot of messages about missing minerals for production, and I can see my non-existant stockpiles and the amount I need to produce all I've ordered. But I'd like to know how much I'm lacking on a per-month basis. Also, how much my mass drivers and ships brought in last month. With the information I have, it's hard to say whether need 50% more Duranium or 500%. Or am I missing something?

There is no per-month calculation, so you are right in that it is extremely difficult to get a good picture from the static numbers.

One thing that is marginally useful is the 5-day increment information. That at least gives an information of the numbers-per-time-interval, and the interval is large enough to show most of the mass-driver delivered minerals. However it completely fails showing what freighters brought in accurately.

So the best thing you can do is to either: