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[Flying Dice]

Also, is there a way to remove researched tech, like the first engines or bad in general designs and such when I find them useless. I kinda instant researched in some stuff before I was done with it.

No, but you can mark techs as obsolete, and tell the game to hide them from you on ship design.

Incorrect.

1.Turn on SM Mode.
2.Open Economics window.
3.Open Research tab.
4.Under the 'Technology Description' section, click the check circle labelled 'Completed'.
5.Go to the section of technology the module in question would fall under (ex. a Nuclear Thermal E10 drive would be under Power and Propulsion.).
6.Select the technology or ship module you wish to delete from your race.
7.Click the button labelled 'Remove'.


However, it isn't really necessary to do this for outdated ship modules, as you can just obsolete them (as EuchreJack noted) to get them to disappear from the Class Design window. What this is useful for is if you accidentally instant researched a technology, or if you want to delete one for RP reasons.

[EuchreJack]

Yeah, I forgot about that, thanks.

[Flying Dice]

I only knew about it in the first place because I keep accidentally clicking 'instant' instead of 'create' for research projects after I've forgotten to close SM Mode. 

[Person]

What do I research to get automated mines/mass drivers and put them places.

[Zangi]

What do I research to get automated mines/mass drivers and put them places.

You shouldn't need to....  You are starting in Conventional?
You need to research that ascension thing under Construction/Production.

Or you just need to close your population/economic screen and reopen it.  Alternative is to use the dropdown, click on something else, then go back to Installations.

[RedKing]

What do I research to get automated mines/mass drivers and put them places.

No research required, unless you're doing a conventional start. You just have to build them from your construction factories. And then load them up onto a cargo ship and put them down where you want them.

[Person]

Oh. Was looking for the screen to construct them, couldn't find it. But I just found it now so, gonna make some. What is a good number? I know I need 1 mass driver on earth, and one on the other body, but as for mines, I dunno.

[Dutchling]

A quadrillion should last you a while.

[RedKing]

Depends on what you're mining and the concentration (and how bad you need the minerals). An automine cranks out as much minerals as a regular mine, so a couple hundred makes a decent little mining facility. If it's a really mineral-heavy planet, I'd up that considerably. In games where Venus is mineral-rich, I'll wind up with 800-1000 automines on it.

You'll need one mass driver per 5,000 tons of mineral per year. You'll know you have too few drivers if you see a stockpile building up on the rock you're mining (remember to select a mass driver destination from the mining screen once the drivers are placed). Also, placing a good number more drivers than you actually need generates faster mineral packets. If you're near or at capacity, the packet will be 1000 km/s. If your driver capacity is way above the actual mineral output, the packets will be considerably faster. This can be of use if the mining target is a long ways away fromm your target (say, in a distant binary system where the packet has to travel double-digit AUs)

Also you'll need at least one mass driver on the receiving end as well.

[PTTG??]

Do you need multiple receiving Mass Drivers at the receiving end?

[Zangi]

Do you need multiple receiving Mass Drivers at the receiving end?

Just 1 is enough on the receiving end...  having 0 has some 'fun' results...

[Flying Dice]

In related news, still waiting for the functionality to allow me to strap engines to asteroids and use them for planetary bombardment. 

[forsaken1111]

From an efficiency standpoint you want as few automines as possible. Mines cost roughly half as much resources and use population to run, so use manned mines whenever possible. I only ever use automines on uninhabitable rocks where its not feasible to set up an orbital colony.

[RedKing]

From an efficiency standpoint you want as few automines as possible. Mines cost roughly half as much resources and use population to run, so use manned mines whenever possible. I only ever use automines on uninhabitable rocks where its not feasible to set up an orbital colony.

Except that large-scale mining (say in the 800-1000 mine range like I was discussing) requires impracticably large habitats (or clusters of habitats).

800 automines:
Construction cost:
192000 credits
96000 Duranium
96000 Corundium

800 mines + 40 million population + an orbital habitat capable of housing 40 million (with no extra armor, CIWS, sensors, etc.):

192005.5 credits
108842 Duranium
10158.5 Neutronium
5 Corbomite
40000 Boronide
48000 Corundium
81000 Mercassium

Also, said orbital habitat is going to be a whopping 200 *MILLION* tons. It's going to take a while to get towed there. I imagine you could improve on the efficiency of this by doing say, 10 habitats that house 4 million each (but that still works out to roughly 200 million tons of vessel to be built and moved). Said habitat is also going to stand out like a neon light on enemy sensors. It'd be interesting to crunch the numbers at various thresholds (50 mines, 100, 150, 250, 500, 1000) and see if there's a Pareto-optimal curve for orbitals+mines vs. automines.

[forsaken1111]

From an efficiency standpoint you want as few automines as possible. Mines cost roughly half as much resources and use population to run, so use manned mines whenever possible. I only ever use automines on uninhabitable rocks where its not feasible to set up an orbital colony.

Except that large-scale mining (say in the 800-1000 mine range like I was discussing) requires impracticably large habitats (or clusters of habitats).

That's why I said 'where its not feasible to set up an orbital colony'. For small operations I have a colony that I drag around which can transport and house a few million people. For large ones I just drop a ton of autominers.