A basic idea of the flow of things so far in my head...
Scenario 1 : Mining for Ore
- Start off in Space mode with a small transport carrying 1 CEO, 3 employees, a mobile mining vehicle, a survey vehicle, and a drop ship
- as CEO you have medium drone(remote control) and starship skills
- Employee Adam is a miner, employee Eve is a surveyor/geologist(can find ores/minerals) and employee Maverick is a pilot
- You goto the "Market" screen and look up the current price of Iron ore and see that the price is pretty good
- You go back to space screen and click on the nearest planet then click on "reports" then look to see if anyone reported iron deposits
- The planet has medium levels of iron which should work so you set your ship's destination for the planet using the CEO starship skill
- You also check native/hostile levels reported there and they are low, which is good cuz you lost an attack drone yesterday that you are
still pissed off about and you just want an easy score to make up for the loss
- It takes about 5 minutes to get to the planet, while you cruise there, you goto the "contract" screen and see what services companies
are requesting, some are requesting processed iron ore aka iron bars. You have a small ore refinery on board so maybe you could fill
a contract out later
- Your ship gets to the planet safely and enters orbit. Orbit removes your ship from space and your ship is safe. This is a good
place to logoff when needed. (Ships normally leave space when logged off but who knows what mess you might log back into later)
- In orbit, you start a visual scan of the planet, gaining a basic map of oceans, land, some features like forests, mountains, and possibly
native/alien/company structures. Your CEOs computer skill goes up a point!
- While it scans you move Adam into the miner and drive it into the drop ship. You have Eve get into the surveyor and drive into the drop
ship. You have Maverick get into the drop ship as pilot.
- the scan finishes and you find a spot in the mountains (usually best areas to find ore), away from buildings, you zoom in on the spot and
see for sure that it looks safe, you command the drop ship to head for that spot
- depending on pilot skill the drop ship gets there n a few minutes and you go into planet(normal RTS) mode with your drop ship hoovering
over your selected location
- you are in a hilly region, with mountain tiles, pine trees, rocks and evidence of past mining which is a good sign ore is nearby
- you direct it to land then deploy the surveyor and start surveying the immediate area specifically for iron. Geologists can survey for
specific ore faster. Or you can set more types or all but each spot takes longer the more crap/ore you look for. Also deeper ore takes
longer to find too.
- After a few minutes, Eve in the surveyor finds some iron deposits close to surface (since the mobile miner you own can only operate at
shallow levels). You move the surveyor outta the way to scan another spot then deploy Adam in the miner from the drop ship then direct
him to start mining for iron at the spot.
- You set Eve to survey for ALL ores/minerals
- Your CEO is still in the starship in orbit watching in zoom mode thus it gives larger field of view else units have like 5-10 sight line
but from orbit, the view is about 20 diameter and can be moved around thus you can scan around the area you are working in to find
threats as early as possible in case you need to scramble back to the drop ship and head back to orbit and your ship
- after a few minutes, depending on Adams mine skill, his vehicle becomes full with 1 unit of iron ore, it lets you know so you direct
adam to unload the iron ore onto the drop ship. The drop ship has enough room for the 2 vehicles plus 2 units of ore/cargo. You send
adam back to mine more iron ore
- Eve finds GOLD!!! but it is too deep for your lil' miner but you place a marker and record the spot for the future or to sell the info
on the market cuz you know people are willing to pay for info like that.
- Adam is full again, you drop it off into the drop ship and send him back
- As CEO you keep an eye on the edges of your work area and spot a herd of native animals. Might be useful for food and hides, etc, so you
mark/record it for later
- Adam is full again so you have him load into the drop ship and send eve into the drop ship. You have 3 units of iron ore, 2 in drop ship
and 1 in the lil' miner vehicle. You lauch the drop ship and command Maverick to come back to the ship in orbit.
- While Maverick is flying back, you check "contracts" to see if iron bars still needed and you see a few contracts for it so you warm up
ship ore refinery and then check hostile reports for the nearest space trading outpost but no hostiles to report
- The drop ship arrives so you set a course for the outpost then unload the surveyor and miner from the drop ship then transfer the iron
ore to the ships cargo holds. You send Adam and eve to crew quarters where they can eat and rest/heal and simulator train, etc. You
noticed the drop ship is a little damaged so you set Maverick to repair it using his mechanic skill.
- The ore refinery is warmed up so you order it to process all the iron ore into bars. No one on board has any refinery skills so the
refiner works at a snails pace but eventually gets it done just in time for arrival at the space trading outpost.
- You dock your ship then transfer the iron bars to the outpost so you can sell them. You look at the market price for iron bars, then
look at any contracts for iron bars to see what price is better. The normal market is there to buy up goods at low, low prices in case
no players are looking for that item. You find the best contract and sell the bars to it and earn 50 credits per bar, totalling 150c.
- The drone you lost costs about 500 so you decide to head back to the same planet.
- Estimated Time Elapsed: 30 minutes
