I have a question about creation of Civilian Mining.
I have the mechanics description from the wiki, and my question is. If step one is successfully, IE. A CMC should be created, what happens if the most populous system, does not have any eligible bodies? For example if all bodies in Sol have been mined out. Will there then just be a 50% chance that even if a CMC should be created in step one, nothing is created because the most populous system doesn't have a valid target? If so this could quickly spiral out of control. Say your 3 most populous system doesn't have a valid target for a CMC. Then the chance for creating a new CMC, is only 12,5% (0,5*0,5*0,5=0,125) even if you have the wealth for creating a new CMC.
Or is the mechanic so that if your most populous system does not have a valid target, it just moves on to the second most populous system with a 50% chance of creating a CMC?
Mechanics
Each production cycle, the game will check for new mining colonies. A new Civilian Mining Colony will only generate after a number of conditions are met:[1]
First, a random number is generated between 1 and 1,000,000. That random number is compared to annual empire wealth generation. If the random number is smaller than the annual empire wealth, the next generation step occurs. Otherwise, no new CMC will be generated that production cycle.
Next step is to determine which system a body will be generated in. Each System with more than 10m population is ranked from most population to least. The most populous system has a 50% chance to go on to the next step. If that fails, the next populous system is given a 50% chance, down the line. If all systems fail the chance, the CMC will be generated in the largest population system.
Once a system has been chosen, a body must be chosen. First, the body must be surveyed and have no existing colony on it. It needs to orbiting the same star as the selected population, and be no more than 80AU away.
On the first run through those bodies that qualify, Aurora checks for deposits of either Sorium or Duranium in excess of 25,000 tons with 0.8 accessibility or greater.
If no bodies qualify, Aurora then checks for deposits of either Sorium or Duranium in excess of 15,000 tons with 0.7 accessibility. A tonnage check similar to 4B is performed to evaluate which body gets the CMC.
Once either step 4 or 5 find at least one candidate, Aurora finds the total mineral deposits for each body. The deposit size is multiplied by accessibility, ignoring all deposits of 0.4 or less.
Finally the world with the greatest total deposit is selected and a civilian mining colony is created on that body.
Additionally, Each production cycle, each existing CMC is checked for expansion. For each CMC, a random number between 1 and 4,000,000 is selected, and if the number is less than annual empire wealth, the CMC expands by 1.
