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Post by resistor on Feb 8, 2016 3:00:30 GMT -5
Why is it that the factions can mine water-fuel from asteroids, but seem to be unable to mine asteroid metals and get income from them? This is a lore question, not a suggestion. There are companies in real life that are looking in to asteroid mining as a future business, and rare metals on earth can be much more easy to find in certain asteroids.
So why don't the factions do it? Does their limitations on computer communications make it less practical? Do the planets they have in the quadrant already have all the rare metals in large quantities they would otherwise want to find in space?
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Post by tenbsmith on Feb 8, 2016 13:50:03 GMT -5
I find the game mechanics of TB games exquisitely balanced. Sure, the game mechanics don't always perfectly reflect a consistent alternate reality, but that's o.k. fun game play is what I want.
That's my long-winded way of saying I don't think lack of mineral mining on asteroids has to be lore-based, it may just be scope-based. The vast majority of games don't perfectly reflect the alternate reality in which they exist.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 8, 2016 23:19:40 GMT -5
They mine Asteroids all the time. What makes you think they don't?
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Post by resistor on Feb 9, 2016 0:08:58 GMT -5
They mine Asteroids all the time. What makes you think they don't? I was thinking about asteroid mining and realised there are no mining ships in STRPG, and there is no tech or infrastructure related to mining asteroids in ST4X. |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 9, 2016 0:29:02 GMT -5
System Minerals and Orbital Mines?
In ST RPG ... Prospector, Mining Freighter, Asteroid Runner?
Anyway, from a Lore POV, Asteroid mining is a big part of ST RPG.
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Post by resistor on Feb 9, 2016 1:07:27 GMT -5
System Minerals and Orbital Mines? In ST RPG ... Prospector, Mining Freighter, Asteroid Runner? Anyway, from a Lore POV, Asteroid mining is a big part of ST RPG. Oh, well... this was not very smart of me  I assumed orbital mines were for orbiting planets and mining the same resources as planetary mines. |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 9, 2016 1:16:41 GMT -5
The Colony in ST 4X represents the habitable part of a Star's orbiting bodies. This might mean that a singe Colony draws resources from several moons, an asteroid belt, etc.
ST2 will help make these distinctions more clear.
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Post by tenbsmith on Feb 9, 2016 11:29:25 GMT -5
On some maps in ST4X, you can mine waterfuel from asteroids that are NOT part of a star system--a/k/a interstellar asteroids. Given that, to me the question was, why can't you mine minerals from interstellar asteroids?
This reminds of past discussions about having space stations in the game that could be built on interstellar squares and would create some green and/or yellow squares around them allowing ships to refuel and/or repair. Given faction/templar technology, this seems possible, but the game doesn't currently support it.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 9, 2016 11:54:33 GMT -5
Star Traders 2 will feature Orbitals.
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Post by fallen on Feb 9, 2016 12:25:26 GMT -5
On some maps in ST4X, you can mine waterfuel from asteroids that are NOT part of a star system--a/k/a interstellar asteroids. Given that, to me the question was, why can't you mine minerals from interstellar asteroids? Because it is out of the scope of the game design, not because it is out of the scope of the lore. |
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Post by koles on Feb 9, 2016 14:06:02 GMT -5
There are companies in real life that are looking in to asteroid mining as a future business, and rare metals on earth can be much more easy to find in certain asteroids. So why don't the factions do it? Does their limitations on computer communications make it less practical? Do the planets they have in the quadrant already have all the rare metals in large quantities they would otherwise want to find in space? if you can refuel your ships with waterfuel on asteroids - i bet there are some kind of independent mining stations which share some water with you. maybe factions/clans just prefer to mine minerals from planets that they own because of xenos/solar wars/pirates/radiation/something else? |
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