Jenkski написа:QUOTE(Jenkski @ Sep 23 2007, 10:59 AM) I am not sure, but i think that the only type of resource you don´t lose when astroplotating is gas. I sent 2 astroplotation missions: with just one recycle (in both cases): the first took me 20.000 gas and the second one I sent it with 10.000 gas load and returned me around 15.000 gas (so i supposed that betwen these 2 flights someone else astroplotated 1 time the asteroid). So, I did not lose that 10.000 gas.
I have a question related too: if my info is correct, the max load of an asteroid is 40.000 gas; when moving, that asteroid regenerates the gas load? (because at the 3rd mission i took more than 5000 units).
Gas is not regenerated on asteroids and I think your example shows just the opposite, e.g. gas
is lost when astropoluting (never learned to spell that word =)
clarification:
1. your first (empty) recycler managed to collect 20k gas. That means that the asteroid contained 40k gas or more and after the astropolling it now contains a minimum of 20k gas
2. your second recycler (with 10k gas) managed to collect 15k gas.
2.1 If you don't loose the gas you are carrying it means the asteroid only contained 10k gas when the recyclers arrived and should now contain around 5k gas
2.2 The other case, if gas is lost when astroplotting, the asteroid would have contained around 30k gas when your recycler arrived and should now contain around 15k gas
3. When your last recycler arrived it managed to collect "more than 5000"
3.1 following 2.1: you should have collected around 2.5k gas
3.2 follwing 2.2: you dont say exactly how much you got, but my guess is that it was almost exactly 7.5k. It that was the case then everything have worked as expected, e.g. transported gas is lost when astroplating and each astropunching mission collects at most half of the gas that the asteroid contains
hope that helps
