Materials in spaace!

[CMDR IAN NORTON]

Material gathering is quite fun in its own right, but there should be more places to find materials than just planet surfaces.

If you could find small amounts in space that would be a nice gentle leader for getting people to buy into horizons.

Destroyed ships could occasionally drop materials, wreck sites could have them too.

Perhaps you could very occasionally find them when mining?

Perhaps asteroid belt clusters could be a good source for them too?

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

+1
I don't understand why these common materials are only available in planets.

I'd like to be able to mine them, or scavenge them.

I also had an idea about an unmanned SRV that goes and gathers them for you.
Not AI, but basic Roomba style collection. It's not gonna turn in to the next AI super power. It just hoovers up materials while you're off doing other things.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=228199

That's my original idea. Wall-E!

 

[droscoe]

I'd like to see mining on planets. Once, and if, they implement that, I'd like to mine not only various types of metals and minerals, but these materials as well.

Perhaps they'd have to dramatically increase the costs of material synthesis to offset the amount of materials we mine. (If we're mining hundreds of pieces of iron, surely the costs of synthesis have to increase to account for this)

Mining on planets, creating mining outposts (starting a mining business) etc etc, are all things that I want in the future. I can see materials in space as well.

 

[CTCParadox]

+1
I don't understand why these common materials are only available in planets.

I'd like to be able to mine them, or scavenge them.

I also had an idea about an unmanned SRV that goes and gathers them for you.
Not AI, but basic Roomba style collection. It's not gonna turn in to the next AI super power. It just hoovers up materials while you're off doing other things.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=228199

That's my original idea. Wall-E!

Apparently there are no iron-rich or C-Type asteroids in Elite.

Materials and commodities should be rolled together so you need a cargo bay and synthesizer module to manufacture railgun slugs/missiles etc.
Surface mining could be done using some kind of deployable rig like below. Not sure how it could work with Elite's persistence, but surely they could figure something out.



CMDR CTCParadox

 

[Jaiotu]

I think the answer as to why we don't find these materials in space is simple: Frontier wants this to be a Horizons-only feature.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Sell, to be honest, the whole synthesis thing is a total joke and waste of time.
Unless you're in deep space exploring.

Otherwise, roaming around looking for enough materials to rearm your guns takes way longer than it would to just find a station to rearm at.

But I get why you can't buy the materials, cos then everyone would just load up on +30% damage anmo. I know I would. Lol
Then you may as well just pay to be armeded at a station with better ammo.