Remote mining, how many ships!!

[SIMON POPPLEWELL]

After setting up my weapon plex in Menelaus Oasis I went to work setting up the remote mining in US south of Menelaus Oasis. That's where I've hit a problem, I've got 7 ore miner's and 3 Sillicon miner's and I'm not coming close to supplying my complex. I've got 2xPAC forges, 3xHEPT forges and 4xIPG forges to supply. How many more ships am I gonna have to get to stock this plex? I'm begining to wish I hadn't started this project and stuck with closed loop complexes.

[Aro]

Think of it this way, it won't cost anything to overmine right?

Get a CLS 2 in Herron's Nebula trade station and hire/fire until you get a Cargo Messenger rank guy. Now you can set up 14 silicon miners and one storage ship. Easy to get more, if tedious to initially set up. If they have a home base they may even level up and let you run say 50 miners no problem.

[drkpendragon]

I don't know about other people, but I normally get about 2500 each hour for every 10 miners. I just add more whenever I need it and make sure I mine a bit more than I actually need. If you do over mine, just be sure to use a separate TL for ore and silicon.

[JAFA_NZ]

Heh.

TLs cost 17+ Million each, a L size mine costs less than 1, my I build mines on Asteroids to use for stockpiling, I just don't provide them with any eCells, or money.

[bernoud]

Beware of the TS loading and unloading process with CLS2, as mining ships stops working till delivery is done.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 85#3629485

[SIMON POPPLEWELL]

I'm guessing I should have set this up later in my game when I had the financial assets to support it. I'm going to have to put it on hold until I can afford more ships, this is sucking up all my profits at the moment.