strategy & tactics

posted on March 11th, 2009, 3:50 am

Knowledge is Power !!! 

posted on March 11th, 2009, 3:48 pm

@ domi i built one minning station which always had a worker and built 5 extra worker. the same like u with 2 station and 4 worker but for 1 station i built a worker. Now all clear?
Hope so...

posted on March 11th, 2009, 8:15 pm

Hmm... I think so: this is what I am understanding from you: Every moon pair that you have, there is one station, and 6 workers.

Every moon pair that I have is made up of two stations, and 4 workers.
That's what I tested though  I will test for 10 minutes though for all races using several combinations next week ... assuming I have loads of time 

posted on March 11th, 2009, 8:30 pm

I have plenty of strategies that work well.  Just ask those that have been unfortunate enough to play against me

posted on March 18th, 2009, 7:24 pm

I think in the end, 2 stations and 6 workers yields the most, as there is no delay between one freighter finishing and another starting.

[Anonymous]

posted on April 17th, 2009, 12:49 pm

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yes 1 station 3 worker mining there (1 moon) is opti for main moonset (2 moons) but for exd is maybe better only 1 station per moonset. So if needed can built later a 2nd station.

posted on April 17th, 2009, 12:53 pm

@ unleash

Even if there is a next ship in line to mine the moon, you can still only have one ship mine at a time, so you are kind of wasting resources on a second station.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on April 17th, 2009, 11:13 pm

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Lol, I tested this and you guys still are bickering over it? 
3 miners per station (2 stations per moon pair) is optimal .... but only over long term. Otherwise you incur costs too rapidly I believe. For tritanium moons, you never need more that 2 miners because one always ends up with an overabundance of tritanium anyway (sometimes not the case when you play as Dominion though).

posted on April 29th, 2009, 7:26 am

I know this thread is old but i wanted to post my thoughts on how to use the borg miners. I build 2 miners per moon, using one station per moon. When i need immediate resources, i order the current miner to drop its load (as long as it doesnt have like 100 resources). In other words, even the miners for the bog need microing.