Mining Station

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 5:08 pm

I had an idea for a future mining method instead of building the usual freighters and deposit point what if you built a structure around the asteroid. This structure would be more sturdy than its common counterparts, prevent other players from mining that moon, and generate a resource trickle, but it would cost more and take longer to build. Feedback is good

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 5:21 pm

Interesting, but how would it be pulled off?

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 5:27 pm

The same way they plan to do just this when the Ciadin build something similar to a Dyson Sphere around their Dilithium moons.

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 5:44 pm

O really sweet. and the coding is there remember the old metal stations from a2

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 7:13 pm

maybe as late game mining, it could be more efficient

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 7:30 pm

i had  an ideal like this for the borg.  I think i even drew up a sketch somewhere, when i got bored, for what it might look like.

[Phoenix]

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 8:02 pm

Last edited by Phoenix on April 22nd, 2010, 8:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Lol, I just had this image float through my head, of a Borg Cube with a resource moon in it, where cubes could gobble up moons around the map, through the same Sphere Port from First Contact. Then the cube/s could drop the moons off deep inside Borg Space. How utterly evil and unbalanced! Ha! 

We are the Borg, cease your mining and surrender your moons. Your Dilithium and Tritanium will be added to our own. Mining, is futile.

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 8:05 pm

Evil as a Borg... I'm sure there would be many amusing complaints if every moon on an 8-player map ended up in the Borg base.

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 8:13 pm

I'd be doubly amused if the FO team included a taunt where a Borg voice goes "OM NOM NOM NOM" every time a cube eats a moon.

posted on April 22nd, 2010, 8:14 pm

haha that would be funny. maybe make it a very expensive research, so it can only happen late game after a lot of expensive research. costs more than going for a 3 bortas with moqbara approach. if your enemy lets you do it then they deserve to be starved of resources.

or maybe make it require specialist modules for the cube, such as large inside space. so armour and weapons would be sacrificed greatly. and each cube would go slower than assims with brel markers. so you would have to support the cube with a fleet to get the moon away.

could be very fun.

posted on April 23rd, 2010, 2:57 am

Destory that cube before it gets away with the last moon





NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. lol

posted on April 23rd, 2010, 11:33 am

I'd be doubly amused if the FO team included a taunt where a Borg voice goes "OM NOM NOM NOM" every time a cube eats a moon.

Mmm... I'm lovin' it!

posted on April 23rd, 2010, 11:43 am

haha that would be funny. maybe make it a very expensive research, so it can only happen late game after a lot of expensive research. costs more than going for a 3 bortas with moqbara approach. if your enemy lets you do it then they deserve to be starved of resources.

or maybe make it require specialist modules for the cube, such as large inside space. so armour and weapons would be sacrificed greatly. and each cube would go slower than assims with brel markers. so you would have to support the cube with a fleet to get the moon away.

could be very fun.

i seriosly love that idea, that could be so much fun, and wouldnt even be THAT unblanced

posted on April 23rd, 2010, 12:58 pm

as long as it had the om nom nom sound im happy.

posted on April 26th, 2010, 3:36 pm

om nom nom nom nom