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[Grendus]

Question about comets. How long do they stay in a system, can they be mined with asteroid mining modules, and what happens if you have stuff on them when they leave a system?

[Areyar]

Question about comets. How long do they stay in a system,

can they be mined with asteroid mining modules,

and what happens if you have stuff on them when they leave a system?

forever, they are in eccentric orbits.
No. you need mines. AMMs are for asteroids, not comets or chunks or moons.
They don't. But losing a colony means losing all the stuff on it.

[Tarran]

Question about comets. How long do they stay in a system,

can they be mined with asteroid mining modules,

and what happens if you have stuff on them when they leave a system?

forever, they are in eccentric orbits.

No. you need mines. AMMs are for asteroids, not comets or chunks or moons.

They don't. But losing a colony means losing all the stuff on it.

Adding on;

but they can go billions of km's away past the asteroid belt, so get them when they are close and drop mass drivers for when they are not.

I'm not in the position to confirm or disagree, sorry, but I just don't use them.

true, but don't delete your colony or you might be finding yourself cheating like me to fix your mistake.

[Another]

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Alaska IV class Destroyer    6400 tons     707 Crew     2090.4 BP      TCS 128  TH 294  EM 720
6562 km/s     Armour 4-30     Shields 24-480     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 12     PPV 24
Annual Failure Rate: 163%    IFR: 2.3%    Maint Capacity 408 MSP    Max Repair 189 MSP    Est Time: 1.16 Years

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E7 (v-fast) (7)    Power 120    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 42    Armour 0    Exp 16%
Fuel Capacity 900,000 Litres    Range 361.6 billion km   (637 days at full power)
Theta R480/28 Shields (6)   Total Fuel Cost  168 Litres per day

20cm C4 Ultraviolet Laser (4)    Range 320,000km     TS: 6562 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 4    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 8 6 5 5 4 4
Fire Control S06 160-6000 H70 (1)    Max Range: 320,000 km   TS: 6000 km/s     97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Tokamak Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 AR-0 (5)     Total Power Output 40    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR44-R59 (1)     GPS 7434     Range 44.6m km    Resolution 59
Active Search Sensor MR22-R20 (1)     GPS 3780     Range 22.7m km    Resolution 20

Compact ECCM-1 (1)         ECM 20

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes


bit old, but it still is constantly updated to be awesome.

I am almost sure that the power needed in this case is 4x4=16, not 40.

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10cm C2 Infrared Laser (2)    Range 30.000km     TS: 2105 km/s     Power 3-2     RM 1    ROF 10        3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Short-Range Fire Control (1)    Max Range: 40.000 km   TS: 2000 km/s     75 50 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pressurised Water Reactor (2)     Total Power Output 4    Armour 0    Exp 5%

It is an except from a design from the official "Exodus Campaign" savegame that comes with every 5.0x Aurora version.

[Metalax]

No. you need mines. AMMs are for asteroids, not comets or chunks or moons.

Are you sure about that? While I know they don't function on moons and am fairly sure the same is true for chunks, I recall using mining ships on comets before.

I am almost sure that the power needed in this case is 4x4=16, not 40.

Yep required power is number of weapons times the capacitor size on each weapon, basically how much power you need to generate every 5 seconds.

[Greenbane]

Yep required power is number of weapons times the capacitor size on each weapon, basically how much power you need to generate every 5 seconds.

Yeah, it's green multiplied by red.

20cm C4 Ultraviolet Laser (4)    Range 320,000km     TS: 6562 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 4    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 8 6 5 5 4 4

[Grendus]

I still wouldn't use an AMM on them anyways. When that comet goes too far out, they won't have enough fuel to get back home. I'd rather use AMM's to clean up those little 500 mineral asteroids you have floating around, use automated mines on planets and moons.

[Decimator]

I still wouldn't use an AMM on them anyways. When that comet goes too far out, they won't have enough fuel to get back home. I'd rather use AMM's to clean up those little 500 mineral asteroids you have floating around, use automated mines on planets and moons.

Bah, build a refueler if you don't want to give your asteroid miners enough fuel to get home.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I avoid it all by using engine-less mining ships and tugs.

[Tarran]

Yep required power is number of weapons times the capacitor size on each weapon, basically how much power you need to generate every 5 seconds.

Yeah, it's green multiplied by red.

20cm C4 Ultraviolet Laser (4)    Range 320,000km     TS: 6562 km/s     Power 10-4     RM 4    ROF 15        10 10 10 10 8 6 5 5 4 4

At-least I wasted only a little space, whats the first number anyway? damage?

[Areyar]

I avoid it all by using engine-less mining ships and tugs.

Me too, I wanted to add cargospace for a massdriver, but that would be besides the point if it is going to sit in orbit in a swarm of miners. . . I just send a single cargoship with a MD after it.


\Actually, I don't recall actually trying a miner on a comet.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I use tugs because not only do I have the mining ship but also the one that extracts from gas giants and terraformer ships all engine less because they are meant to just sit there so why should I waste the money to equip them all with engines when 1 or 2 tugs can take care of most of the early to mid game needs.

[Areyar]

I decided to have engines on gateconstructors...
only one module per ship, so they be fairly small compared to the other utillities.

[Tarran]

I decided to have engines on gateconstructors...
only one module per ship, so they be fairly small compared to the other utillities.

You didn't have engines on them before? so you tugged around gate constructors for every gate?

[Thexor]

I decided to have engines on gateconstructors...
only one module per ship, so they be fairly small compared to the other utillities.

You didn't have engines on them before? so you tugged around gate constructors for every gate?

Hey, if you've already got dozens of fairly fast tugs floating around, why not? It's probably faster to tug the ship, than to throw on a weak engine.