<t> Introduce nothing if it can't be automated. The AI must handle all new features.<br/>
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1. Fix the UI. Retrofitting the private sector including mining bases is broken, many tasks need an impossible amount of UI navigation. You conquer an empire and get all of their ships and bases with ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Well, it depends, when there are extremely rare resources involved, I prefer to colonize the planet even if at 10% quality. Several reasons:<br/>
1) Orbital bases can get destroyed, and it takes more time to build them, time that can be used by your enemies, pirates or ...

Yes, the % affects the rate of extraction....there is a forumula in a thread somewhere; lots of threads were done on this.

Any links? Didn't find anything...

So my only choice is to scap it and throw out of the airlock all of that zentabia?

Can I dock a military ship with full cargo and docking components and transfer all of the stuff?

thanks!

So how do mining bases compare to building colonies on the place then?

Consider colonies with borderline quality into the negative: i.e. you don't care about the living space, you care about the extraction rate.

<t> The only source of the ultra rate luxury resource is being mined by a small, old, and obsolete mining base. On its cargo hold there are 6-8k of valuable cargo. Now, with current market prices that would fetch a pretty big sum. How do you upgrade it without losing the cargo?<br/>
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<t> Ok, mining components have "Resource Extraction:X" but no time period is specified at all. how fast is resource extraction 5? when will I have 100 of a resource?<br/>
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Also, does the resources deposited affect the rate for components? does the % also affect the rate of extraction for ...