Bacon Mining Company - a Bacon Mod Scenario
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:34 am
You’re not an empire. You’re not a pirate. You are the CEO of a small startup mining company. Welcome to the Bacon Mining company!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gg0r7buisvvmw ... y.dwg?dl=0
Requirements:
Bacon Mod version 1.52 or higher
Beyond Extended Universe Alpha Mod (merged text files for this mod are available in the Bacon Mod thread.
Installation
Under Customization\Beyond Extended Universe Alpha create a directory called “Maps” and place the file there.
Special thanks to Osito for his post explaining how to make a scenario. It is surprising more people haven’t made them.
Description
The goals of this scenario are as follows:
1 Survive 50 years
2 Mine 3,000,000+ resources
3 Have fun
The Bacon Mining company is a small startup mining company on an asteroid. You have 30,000 common stock investors (Public sector) and a small group of partners and preferred stock investors (State sector). The system you have set up your HQ in is very rich with numerous asteroids with many strategic resources. Some asteroids even have pockets of gases on them.
The Bacon Mining company is strictly a sublight organization. There is no ruin with precursor technology on it. Once you have mined 3,000,000 resources or 50 years passes use the editor to unlock the first hyperjump tech if you haven’t already stolen or gotten it any other way.
Start by building mining ships and gas mining ships. These as well as freighters are going to be your main ships. Don’t worry about warships. You won’t be able to afford them. Remember you can arm all of your ships with up to 10 weapons if you really need to.
Pay off ALL pirates. You really have no choice. Fortunately, your company is so pathetic all the pirates will probably only charge around 16 credits a month for protection.
Your common stock investors build things EXTREMELY slowly and they won’t even start until they see a positive cash flow which will take many years. Concentrate on construction ships. Your preferred stock partners build much quicker.
Your ship maintenance is much lower than normal. Your people work for free as they are investors. You only have to pay for physical maintenance of the ships and bases.
Your science ships are your main form of research. However there is a limited amount of scientific data in your system. (A lot, but still finite). Prioritize what you research and concentrate on just a few important projects. Energy collectors and fighters are probably the most important.
A few bomber bases strategically deployed can cover the entire system and they are fairly cheap.
Making money
You are a mining company so it’s probably not surprising that you make money by… wait for it… wait for it… MINING!
In addition to selling ore to the independents you can sell to empires and even pirates using the following procedure.
For empires, use the ctrl-T to add a ship to the trade list. If you add a ship with cargo the price will include the value of the cargo. This is the same as usual with the Bacon mod. However, you will get more money from ore than a large empire because you don’t have as much red tape and bureaucracy.
To sell to pirates use the menu for “give”. The pirates will automatically buy whatever you are selling. However, you have to remember that pirates with poor relations will pay less than empires or pirates with good relations to your company. This will be your only way of selling until you mean an empire.
There's probably stuff I'm forgetting. Ask questions if you have any.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gg0r7buisvvmw ... y.dwg?dl=0
Requirements:
Bacon Mod version 1.52 or higher
Beyond Extended Universe Alpha Mod (merged text files for this mod are available in the Bacon Mod thread.
Installation
Under Customization\Beyond Extended Universe Alpha create a directory called “Maps” and place the file there.
Special thanks to Osito for his post explaining how to make a scenario. It is surprising more people haven’t made them.
Description
The goals of this scenario are as follows:
1 Survive 50 years
2 Mine 3,000,000+ resources
3 Have fun
The Bacon Mining company is a small startup mining company on an asteroid. You have 30,000 common stock investors (Public sector) and a small group of partners and preferred stock investors (State sector). The system you have set up your HQ in is very rich with numerous asteroids with many strategic resources. Some asteroids even have pockets of gases on them.
The Bacon Mining company is strictly a sublight organization. There is no ruin with precursor technology on it. Once you have mined 3,000,000 resources or 50 years passes use the editor to unlock the first hyperjump tech if you haven’t already stolen or gotten it any other way.
Start by building mining ships and gas mining ships. These as well as freighters are going to be your main ships. Don’t worry about warships. You won’t be able to afford them. Remember you can arm all of your ships with up to 10 weapons if you really need to.
Pay off ALL pirates. You really have no choice. Fortunately, your company is so pathetic all the pirates will probably only charge around 16 credits a month for protection.
Your common stock investors build things EXTREMELY slowly and they won’t even start until they see a positive cash flow which will take many years. Concentrate on construction ships. Your preferred stock partners build much quicker.
Your ship maintenance is much lower than normal. Your people work for free as they are investors. You only have to pay for physical maintenance of the ships and bases.
Your science ships are your main form of research. However there is a limited amount of scientific data in your system. (A lot, but still finite). Prioritize what you research and concentrate on just a few important projects. Energy collectors and fighters are probably the most important.
A few bomber bases strategically deployed can cover the entire system and they are fairly cheap.
Making money
You are a mining company so it’s probably not surprising that you make money by… wait for it… wait for it… MINING!
In addition to selling ore to the independents you can sell to empires and even pirates using the following procedure.
For empires, use the ctrl-T to add a ship to the trade list. If you add a ship with cargo the price will include the value of the cargo. This is the same as usual with the Bacon mod. However, you will get more money from ore than a large empire because you don’t have as much red tape and bureaucracy.
To sell to pirates use the menu for “give”. The pirates will automatically buy whatever you are selling. However, you have to remember that pirates with poor relations will pay less than empires or pirates with good relations to your company. This will be your only way of selling until you mean an empire.
There's probably stuff I'm forgetting. Ask questions if you have any.