Remote Mining

I just tried building some after seeing this and my game just locked up during the end turn phase.

Same here.

Yes, and furthermore, if you move your remote miner ship to an asteroid field and start mining (on the same turn it was produced) clicking the Empire Options button leads to an immediate crash.

Tried this only in the demo but I guess the bug is still there in the retail version.

Did you submit a bug report and a save game? MM is usually pretty fast at tracking down game crash events and getting a patch out.

Never used it. Do the ships mine and return the resources automatically or do you need to micromanage moving the ships back and forth?

Vince, they mine automatically and need not return with the ores, it appears to go directly to your storage with no transport required. Some mods make the percentages of whatever resource you're mining go down by x per turn and some mods don't. You could, theoretically, end up with an asteroid belt with no resources at all in them - 0/0/0.

What I find interesting is that some players have problems (for the record I don't have problems with remote miners and I do use them. 1.66 with all the popular mods.) and others don't. Not just remote mining but various other glitches that do not seem to be widely affecting players.

I'm starting to wonder if the game is really bugged or is it a certain combination of ingame action/items that cause problems. Or is something else going on such as some video conflict etc. Best to send a save game to Aaron describing the problem.

Note that the original bug posted above was fixed a long time ago. I'm not aware of any current bugs that affect remote mining.

Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Even though I don't use it in regular games I can see the usefulness in limited resource games. I'll have to try that to see if it happens to me.