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sbach2o -> RE: Abandoned Mine Bug (12/9/2011 9:27:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: randal7
Re: ice asteroids, I've never seen one of these with anything to mine - only metal asteroids. Do I need to be checking closer?
About ice asteroids I am not sure, barren rock asteroids seem to be similar, though. Those rarely have anything mineable, but it still happens occasionally. I suspect ice asteroids may be the same. Since finding the needle in the haystack is difficult, it is best left o automated constructors to make use of these resources., if they choose so.
Regarding the original issue:
It is very common for abandoned mining or gas mining stations to appear where there is no mineable resource or on the wrong kind of planet/moon/asteroid, so the extractors do not work. The main purpose of these objects is probably to provide hints regarding the story line with their navigational directions in some data core. After that, they're just a drain on the economy, as you have to pay maintenance, and should be scrapped. Since I typically find them in some backwater, far from my colonies, scrapping them looks like the thing to do, even in the rare case that the mining equipment has something to work on.
The same treatment is recommended for the occasional abandoned starbase with its space yards. Ships may go for repairs there instead to a planetary space port. Or worse, construction from the civilian sector or ships issued via the build orders screen may land here. These star bases are usually slow to build anything, in part because they seem to be very low priority in receiving supply shipments. This is from experience in old versions of the game. There were some notes regarding this in recent patches, so maybe it isn't an issue any more.
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