I sure hope that jumping from planet to planet in the Map View will not hurt the music too badly by constantly switching environments.


Also that is one big frikkin Asteroid. How are you supposed to defend against those, the ton of Gun Turrets was clearly not enough!

I thought about legendary pumpjacks too, but that's whole other topic. I didn't know those around starting location did not deplete as much as the others. Well the Pumpjacks are kindof like Mining Drills, unsure how they behave when upgraded. There is Mods that add Infinite Ores which have a slowly...

Those 17% are basically multiplying Ore Patches by six in the absolute best case then. Though you need to be in a really limited scenario or map settings to actually need that much savings. Still fun to have both Productivity and Resource Savings as modifiers on Mining Drills now, Ore Patches are go...

I don't understand where your "90%" and "150%" numbers comes from. Do you have a source? Legendary quality a Big mining drill only drains the resource 17% of the time the original FFF which had a general description of which percentages are being applied to EVERYTHING, and as i ...

Again what you say sounds way more likely, but in case as it's sill unconfirmed, i'd like to keep a wide range of possibilities in consideration. :lol: What I meant was it is not going to be "minus X %" in the maths, especially since Legendary is 150% and that would result in negative ore...

I don't know either for the calculation but my first guess for further inference would be : the way it works is to reduce the % of occurences that this 1 ore per second would actually be removed from the patch. So if you have thanks to the quality of the drill "50%" , it means the mining ...

and indeed it doesn't change the rate at which you deplete resources from the ore patch. Clarification to avoid misunderstandings: its the rate per unit of time that is meant here (if you can handle the amount), you definitely get more ore out of it in total, otherwise it would be a Mining Speed Re...

If you should use efficiency modules or not really depends on your game phase, intention, scenario, and the scale of your base. When I look at my just finished 2.5 KSPM base on a real map, energy usage of miners is negligible compared to the major consumers. There are no modules at all in the miner...

Well, I'm actually stupid enough to not notice. Seems like ideally you'll use 2 Efficiency and 1 Speed Module Not quite because the speed module undoes efficiency, and at the point at which it is worth to use Speed 3 with two Efficiency 3, you are far enough in the tech tree to no longer worry abou...

I don't understand the purpose of 3 efficiency modules per miner. As far as I understand, one module is reducing power usage by 50%, capped at 80%, so 3 modules create 150% energy reduction but capped at 80%, so it's 80%. One module is completely cut away, and another by 20%. A more resource saving...

No one uses productivity modules? Even if you have +140% productivity via research, the +30% are still 12.5% more ore, that's not so negligeable. Of course it means you have to build your mining outpost twice, to allow space for speed beacon, so you don't waste power, but I think ~ +10% is good. Al...

Wouldn't you just take your big mining blueprint and then reverse the belt directions for half of it? Everything else can stay the same. Normally yes however my Mining Blueprint contains a Half Halo of Landmines, which will clash with the 180° rotate. ;) PS: Imho full belts are overrated. With diff...

2) Ore density isn't uniform across a patch. If you aren't splitting the ore patch so belts go from the middle to the outside then miners at the start of the belt will exhaust quickly leaving fewer miners working. This is actually a great Idea, how did I not think of that one before, that way the M...

Earlier in this thread I said I also space out my miners. That was inaccurate. My blueprint has the center miners more dense because of ore density... This one is an interesting point, if you put the effort of spreading out the further miners while densely clustering the center Miners, you can ensu...

As far as I understand the game mechanics, a miner randomly chooses one tile for one mining pass, randomly from all available tiles in its area. Yeah just wanted to clarify "all available tiles" refers to "tiles that actually do contain an ore", it does not include empty tiles. ...

The miners are not talking to each other which tile they actually mine, so tiles on overlapping mining areas are mined twice while their central areas are mined only once. In the end, the overlapping areas become empty first, and the central tile of a miner is still full of resources, so mining bec...

I generally know if i'm going for a 20 hours 100hours or 250+hours game, that's roughly how i see them. And i will plan accordingly while looking at the quantity of the outpost. Interesting, so at the end of your games, are your first Outposts running out or is more than half of the original Ore st...

But i see it as a densely pack outpost depleting faster. I know it's the same amount of resources inside. Lol yeah it depletes faster, but you will need twice the outposts for the same resource rate, so you're forcing yourself to pay the toll of making a second outpost right the eff away as opposed...

On the topic of spreading out Miners to always have two spaces inbetween versus putting as many Miners as possible: Spreading Miners: (+) Less Maximum Pollution per Second, so the Environment can make your Mining Pollution Cloud much smaller. (-) You will need a LOT more Outposts to ensure enough In...

You're getting a few things wrong. Ah thank you, I had it right in my brain but my explanation was quite a bit shoddy and too specific to my own Setups, not to mention me only explaining half of the details of my Setups. ^^ It's the difference between a logi network with just active providers (push...