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OldSkoolGamer
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I'm wondering which planets have the best mineral counts in the beggining of the game. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Keep in mind that the landers are quite lame in the beggining of the game, so I'm looking for planets that are relatively tame, and mineral rich of course. Thanks in advance
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Death 999
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Agreed. I got good at dodging flames, but I lost around 55 crew anyway. Vulpeculae will help you get Orz and the shield, anyway...
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Nic.
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When heading off to see the Arilou, take a little time while waiting for the portal to open and mine some of the stars in their neighbourhood. Beta Chandrasekhar is quite a worthwhile stop...
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chmmravatar
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The ruby worlds at Alpha Centauri are pretty hostile, but you can get some really quick cash. As long as you can get your lander off the planet before it blows up, you'll get a good amount of resources. I mean, even if you lose most of your crew (like let's say 40), that's only 80 resources you'll lose, compared to the couple thousand you can make off from the exotics you'll find.
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AnonomouSpathi
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Spathi? What spathi? You're imagining, hunam.
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My personal plan goes something like this.
Mine out sol, except venus. Load up on thrusters and cargo bays, as much as cash will allow. Visit a few nearby star systems to get enough RUs for 90 or so fuel and a full compliment of thrusters. Just the systems local to sol should provide enough resources to get your ship up to being a half decent cargo hauler. Make positively sure you have the spathi-of-doom (aka fwiffo) and he's filled with crew, and go pay a visit to the ilwrath - in particular, Delta and Beta Tauri. Loot as much as you can, but avoid anything too hostile, and let fwiffo terminate any spiders who get ambitious.
Go home, offload your minerals, load your ship up to maximum mining capacity, and fuel up. Go visit the melnorme, sell your biodata and buy as much technology as you can. Then go visit the space fungus at Zeta and Beta Scorpii, and loot like crazy again. And if the mushroom feel any more lucky then the dillrats did, let the metamollusk tear em apart.
Visit the melnorme on the way back, buy the rest of the tech - shouldn't be any trouble by now. Go home, offload minerals. Save game.
Paint fwiffo's ship black. Refit ship to be pure combat mode, 1 hellbore in slot 2, 3 trackers, 3 dynamos, 1 crew pod, 1 megafuel pod, rest shiva furnaces. Rename ship "Emeril". Return to mycon space. Broil everything you see in butter and plasma.
Reload save game, and play as normal.
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Kohr-Ah_Primat
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The rainbow worlds are also very good places to mine for tons of radioactives. Since each one nets you 500 credits with the Melnorme, and that's equivalent to 10,000 RU if you swap it all in for fuel, it's two birds with one stone.
Four of their locations in game will be divulged to you; Tanaka tells you where one is, the Thraddash comment regarding another, the Slyandro make references to a third, the Supox comment regarding a fourth.
If you're not adverse to a bit of 'cheating' you can look up the locations for these worlds. You'll only need four of them to gather up all the technology the Melnorme sell you; two of them if you also take into account the Umgah reward.
At 10,000 RU (plus the insane amount of radioactives) per planet, it sure as hell beats mining.
Especially when you buy High Efficiency Fuel Tank Technology and then run on over to Druuge space...
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« Last Edit: April 17, 2003, 12:23:47 pm by Kohr-Ah_Primat »
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AnonomouSpathi
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Spathi? What spathi? You're imagining, hunam.
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I'm actually pretty sure there is a list of the richest worlds, in both life, minerals, and combined wealth on the PONAF somewhere. I KNOW there is a list, since it's where I got those 4 worlds from above. Delta Tauri is number 2 richest mineral system in the universe, Beta scorpii is the richest bio planet, iirc.
Of course, right now someone is probably cutting and pasting the actual list, so this may have been pointless.
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