(EDIT) Ressource Mining Outpost

i feel a adapted coloniser ship that works as a miner, like that Allayi unit in endless legend, could work too. 

How about being able to mine the "special nodes" involving asteroids within the sphere of influence for additional resources?

A new type of outpost sounds amazing. 

Adding a constant flow of civilian ships from mining outposts to colonised systems give better feedback on effective blockades.

It feels good when an Idea get's the attention of Devs. 

Thank you very much.

Kaada wrote:

Tyrenium wrote:

I like the idea of having some new form of outpost.

In my opinion, it should be a weak installation. That way, players have to ensure the safety of their new outpost by posting a permanent guard. Or otherwise running the risk of loosing the outpost to opponents.

Plus, this kind of outpost should not hinder other players from building a colony in the same system.

Everything you wrote is basicly what we already have in mind. The last thing on the other hand...I have to think about it. 

Colonising a System that already has a Mining Outpost shouldn't be possible. The Outpost must be destroyed before Colonising. Or even when one just colonises the System the Mining Outpost will be destroyed immediatly after the Outpost turns into a Colony.

Either Way the Mining Outpost is gone.

Perhaps. Don't overlook the opportunity to increase the depth of the gameplay.

In whatever form that the mining outpost takes, having it in the form of an installation that can be captured will add to overall strategy.

If the system is colonized, then what happens to the outpost would depend upon its form. For example, a factory ship could be piloted to another system, whereas a physical installation could reduce construction cost for a mining-related improvement. 

Tyrenium wrote:

I like the idea of having some new form of outpost.

In my opinion, it should be a weak installation. That way, players have to ensure the safety of their new outpost by posting a permanent guard. Or otherwise running the risk of loosing the outpost to opponents.

Plus, this kind of outpost should not hinder other players from building a colony in the same system.

Everything you wrote is basicly what we already have in mind. The last thing on the other hand...I have to think about it. 

Colonising a System that already has a Mining Outpost shouldn't be possible. The Outpost must be destroyed before Colonising. Or even when one just colonises the System the Mining Outpost will be destroyed immediatly after the Outpost turns into a Colony.

Either Way the Mining Outpost is gone.

allikrid wrote:

it should only be useful for a certain amount of turns (depending of planet survivability). Each outpost will need to be resplenished with more colony ships, or it will be useless and will need reconstruction.

What about vodyani rebalance ?

Since I'm a 90% Craver Player I don't care about the Vodyani. If you are a Vodyani player than play them as often as you can and always different than before (as much as possible) and than think what could be added, changed, or deleted.

Also i don't think the Mining Outpost should vanish after a few turns. I think of them as a benefit and a concern for each player. Benefits are the incoming Ressources, but at the same time the concern to loose them by an attack. 

It is the task of the Player to defend their own operations, but hunt and destroy Enemy Player Operations. That also makes the game much more interesting.

Perhaps alternate outpost types that don't turn into colonies?

I like the idea of having some new form of outpost.

In my opinion, it should be a weak installation. That way, players have to ensure the safety of their new outpost by posting a permanent guard. Or otherwise running the risk of loosing the outpost to opponents.

Plus, this kind of outpost should not hinder other players from building a colony in the same system.

seems good

Kaada wrote:

Vzzdak wrote:

DanielSas wrote:

I think they can make Mining support modules instead. THen you can take an Support ship and equip it!

That's too simplistic. This thread is talking about a kind of factory ship that requires significant resources, which is used as an alternative to establishing a colony.

I think the Colony Ship fits perfect for the Job since it already has the "Equipment" to make a Settlement and so on. I think a Mining Factory Module for the Colony Ship is a good way to go. Should be a High Tier Tech in the Economic and Trade part though, otherwise it would be to simple and to easy getting ressources.

A colony ship has a cargo of starting population, tools, vehicles, and presumably the ship hull can be used as temporary shelter.

A colony ship is *not* a factory or refinement system. In a normal colony, these advanced systems would come after the local population constructed them.

As said, this thread is talking about a new type of ship, a "factory ship," massive in size, used to harvest vital resources (e.g., Hyperion, Jadonyx, etc.), which is costly to maintain and defend.

Vzzdak wrote:

DanielSas wrote:

I think they can make Mining support modules instead. THen you can take an Support ship and equip it!

That's too simplistic. This thread is talking about a kind of factory ship that requires significant resources, which is used as an alternative to establishing a colony.

I think the Colony Ship fits perfect for the Job since it already has the "Equipment" to make a Settlement and so on. I think a Mining Factory Module for the Colony Ship is a good way to go. Should be a High Tier Tech in the Economic and Trade part though, otherwise it would be to simple and to easy getting ressources.

DanielSas wrote:

I think they can make Mining support modules instead. THen you can take an Support ship and equip it!

That's too simplistic. This thread is talking about a kind of factory ship that requires significant resources, which is used as an alternative to establishing a colony.

I think they can make Mining support modules instead. THen you can take an Support ship and equip it!