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

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: 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.

Hmmm.  Yes, this is true.  Each time one finishes, it does change what is 
counted for next time.

> 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.

Yes, didn't notice that part.  Four other places could 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.

See my response to Glotmorf; elevation matters nary a whit, and never did.

Orc in a Spacesuit

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