Remote Mining

Erm.... Interesting question, not sure. I've never used it myself.

Resources produced by remote mining reach the imperial coffers with or without a spaceport present in the system.

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The only requirement I have found for remote mining is that the mining ship must have at least 1 movement point. A space station with remote miners will not mine a thing.

I wasn't aware you needed a movement point. Are you sure your space station had supplies?

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It is not engines but supply the mining station must have. I must admit I tend to forget this and build a mining station without any supplies and it doesn't work, until that is I refit it with some supply storage.

I have no idea about SEV but in SEIV remote mining modules will use supplies up if the ship has any but once those supplies are gone will happily continue working. I had thought it probably the same for SEV but you are saying thats changed now, Randallw?

Yes. The components say they need supplies and when there aren't any they run out. In devnull games I build starbases with lots of gatherers and every time I forget to give them supply storage. They don't work then. So I refit them with supply storage and they work, but they use supplies and I need supply depots to supply them. If there are too many ships the miners don't get enough supplies and they stop working. I assume it's not just in Devnull but that the supply needs are stock code.

SE5 did have the same bug as SE4 where you can remotely mine without supplies, but that was fixed several patches ago.

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I could have sworn I built the space station the same way I built the baseship miners. I used supply generators instead of supply storage so I don't have to worry about resupplying them later.

I remember building the only one I tried in my home system so there was plenty of supply to go around, in addition to the supplu generators on the station. That was a long time back so maybe it'll work now.