[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] That's a lotta bulldozers

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 03:21  PM, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

> [[On spoon-business this time.]]
> [[A little bug I found in mining:  you can strip mine a location
> that's being strip mined already.  As such,]]
> IiSstrip Mine (9,5), paaaying thequaalitycost.
> IiSstrip Mine (9,5), paaaying thequaalitycost.
> IiSstrip Mine (9,5), paaaying thequaalitycost.
> IiSstrip Mine (9,5), paaaying thequaalitycost.
> IiSstrip Mine (9,5), paaaying thequaalitycost.
> [[Question is, is this a bug or a feature?  We could say that more
> crews in the same place work faster.  Also note that it will pay out
> for starting with gravel each time, but the payout for finishing
> will vary with each set of mining will depend on the substance that
> particular crew finds.  I say it's at least partially a bug, with
> all this starting bonus.]]

It will not pay out for starting with gravel each time; they'll all 
finish in order, and every time the substance will change from whatever 
it was before *that particular finishing*, to one of {Rock, Water, 
Earth, and Gravel}. Then the next one will finish, changing it from 
whichever of those was selected to something else. In each case, it 
looks at the 'new' and 'old' substances *with respect to the change*, 
meaning what it was changed from and what it was changed to. So you do 
get 10 bonus RUs from starting on Gravel for the first one, iff it's 
still Gravel when the mining finishes.

Note that this means that if the square becomes Wet, or has its 
substance changed because of explosions/Destruction/whatever, you don't 
get the bonus.

This is a bit of a bug as it circumvents the restriction on how many 
mining ops can go on at once - there's a limit on how many *squares* 
can be mined at once, but not on how many times a given square can be 
mined.

Regarding Glotmorf's point about Depth - it's legal if it all starts 
when it's at the right level. Once any of these finishes, you won't be 
able to do more.

--
Wonko

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