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Thread: Mining Tactics
Has anybody had much luck with placing all of their harvestors in one spot on one planet, and just taking what you can get? Simply mining the highest concentration at that spot and selling off the stuff you can't use and keeping the stuff you can? I realize that its a big luck game, and that you'll still have to deviate from that spot for certain off planet resources. Does anybody operate like this?
I'm thinking that would free me up to do other things in game - and it will keep DE from becoming a grind. Although I also know it will also serverely slow down my progress - which might be okay.
Discuss.
Thanks!
Serraf
cyburtis wrote:
So, I've spent the last few days running around planet to planet attempting to build up a stock of the resources I need for Droid Engineer. I've come to the conclusion that I could play like this for months before ever really having enough quality stuff to get a business going. I'm cool with that, but I'm wondering this:
Has anybody had much luck with placing all of their harvestors in one spot on one planet, and just taking what you can get? Simply mining the highest concentration at that spot and selling off the stuff you can't use and keeping the stuff you can? I realize that its a big luck game, and that you'll still have to deviate from that spot for certain off planet resources. Does anybody operate like this?
I'm thinking that would free me up to do other things in game - and it will keep DE from becoming a grind. Although I also know it will also serverely slow down my progress - which might be okay.
Discuss.
Thanks!
Serraf
I am assuming you mean keeping your harvesters in one spot permanently? It's been done before, a lot actually. Yea it can be easier, not having to move them and all, but as you said, it also becomes a luck game. Yea you have the conveneience of not having to move your harvesters every 5-10 days, but it also means you might have spells when you are sitting on nothing. Whether you are harvesting 90% or 10%, you're still paying maintanence, and power, and moving them costs more maintanence. Ultimately the choice is yours...do you want to have them in a permanent location, and take the risk? Or do you want to keep moving them around getting stuff you will actually need or use?
I realize that doesn't help you much, but as you can see.. it's really up to you how you want to do it. 
Thanks again,
Serraf
BadChef wrote:I dont think you mean permanently, rather putting all your harvesters on one spot until that spot is juiced up?
I do mean permanently in one spot. Put 'em down, and take what ever you can get from that spot. Sometimes it'll be good stuff...sometimes not. I would assume that there would always be a high concentration [i]of something[/i] in that spot. Sometimes you'll get getting grind qualilty stuff. Sometimes good quality.
What do you think?
- Find locations based off of current needs. Hopefully, I can place a couple of lots together for a specifc grouping. Currently, I've plaed lots for ferrous metal ( steel ), non-ferrous ( aluminum ), polymer, inert gas, radioactive, and power. All of these are used in my requirements list ( above ) , and all don't need quality as best I can tell.
- As the resources expire, see if the location can provide any other decent concentrations. If high quality, or something useable ( metal is great, as speeder quality really doesn't matter IMO ), I'll leave the harvester there and just switch to the other thing.
- If the location doesn't provide anything I can use, or anything of good enough quality I think it might be useful someday, I pull the harvester and look for a new location. I'm already bleeding enough red ink as it is, I don't think it's good business sense to just let the harvester sit there costing me money and not producing anything of value.
As is often the case, the answer is "it depends."
If you're just going to use your 10 personal lots, definitely plan to move your harvesters as resources despawn or as better resources spawn. The cost in time/maintenance/power to move a harvester will be more than repaid by moving from a, say, 25% spot to a 75% spot. (And of course if you're on a 0% spot after a despawn, not moving your harvesters is just a waste of maintenance.)
If however you have access to hundreds of lots, you'll wind up leaving them in place because you're only admin'ed to them -- you canchoosethe resourceto harvest and access the hopper and so on, but you can't actually pick up and move the harvester. So in this case your harvesters are "static," but because you've got so many of them you're able to make up in volume what you lose in location.
That's how it looks from here, anyway. I hope others will give you other viewpoints on this question.
Good luck!
--Flatfingers