Dredgers - informal poll (spoilers)

[kittyspam]

So..the dregers are an interesting little mystery. Once you find out they are extracting resources and they you can destroy them I am interested in what people did the first time. I have mixed feelings - they haven't threatened the colony AND in game mechanics it doesn't LOOK like they are taking resources I could be using...but they did come uninvited and they are theoretically taking stuff that I have claimed. So what did most people do the first time.

Also - will do another longer post on this - but we really need acheivements for the mysteries that can be completed in multiple ways...so you know which ones can and so you can keep track if you have completed them both ways yet or not...

[SkiRich]

If we ever encounter aliens, the kind of aliens that have their own spacecraft, not microbials, they will treat us the way we treat farm animals.
Least you forget its been documented in Twilight Zone episode - To Serve Man.

[cswheele]

Originally posted by SkiRich:

If we ever encounter aliens, the kind of aliens that have their own spacecraft, not microbials, they will treat us the way we treat farm animals.
Least you forget its been documented in Twilight Zone episode - To Serve Man.

yes i remember that episode

[Blake Walsh]

I destroyed them. The first one was justified in the spirit of scientific curiosity, but once I discovered they were full of goodies it was pretty hard to resist dismantling the rest. It's like discovering humans are full of meat or something. And they were taking stuff that might have theoretically been mine one day!

[kittyspam]

Yea and going forward it seems that you can not advance the plot without attacking them though not sure as after I got the political backing of my sponsor I did so also. May try sometime not attacking and see what happens. Boy were they full of some nice goodies a real boon to the growth of my colony!

[numbskull's profile name]

I never attacked/dismantled them, but when it came to the press conference the game apparently just assumed that I did attack them.
They weren't even taking any resources. I checked all of them so far. none of the surface or deep underground resources were touched.

[kittyspam]

interesting

[Erionar]

This mystery is quite stupidly made in general. I wish there was a proper peaceful approach, as this is how I prefer to play, but it seems that the game just expects you to attack them.
Even that silly press-conference, as someone already mentioned, assumes that you dismantled one, even if you never did.
And if you destroy the last one (the big one) - you get great rewards, while if you just wait and don't attack - you get pretty much nothing (at the point where it arrives I already have all the wonder techs usually).
I like the overall story of this mystery (the scenario of a "First Contact" with a primitive lifeform), but the way it's done technically is likely the worst of all the mysteries.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by kittyspam:

...they haven't threatened the colony AND in game mechanics it doesn't LOOK like they are taking resources I could be using...

You can only make a decision based upon the information presented.

Unfortunately there is a very poor presentation of the fact they are huge boring devices taking resources. Mostly because the first reaction most people would have is "Hey get the @#$% out of here."

[SkiRich]

If aliens with the ability to travel lightyear distances for the purposes of mining ever came into our solar system, mars isnt going to be their destination.
Its earth.
One look at all the cities we built and they would say "Hey if we just grind these structures into fine sand we can sift it all back home and get all the raw matierials without needing to dig the mantle of the planet."
Yeah, Hawkins said it best, it was a mistake to send transmissions out broadcasting we are here. Because if they can come here, we'll be turned into a slave colony.

So ... feel free to attack the boring devices.

[Intellection]

Originally posted by SkiRich:

So ... feel free to attack the boring devices.

I get it! :-)

[Neocray]

@Skirich : well, as a real geologist, I have to disagree. For a space capable mining fleet, it would be far more interesting to mine the asteroïd belt and/or some gaz giants satellites. Metals ore concentration would be far higher than the ones on Earth (so less scrap to deal with) with the double advantage of no gravity well to fight against (so less energy needed). Water would be easier to mine as well. And no indigenous species to deal with (us). Even with a major technological gap we couldn't fight against, it would mean for them to lose time dealing with or dispatching us. So for a fleet looking solely after resources, it would mean better and quicker rentability.
But if the resources they look for are living beings, that's another deal.

[SkiRich]

You know how we break horses and use them as beasts of burden.
Yeah, that'll be us.