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Mining Mining Mining...

Has mining been mentioned at all for the forthcoming Beta release?
I havent noticed much new in beta mentioned other than colored ships and communications??
 
Don't put your hopes too high.

Have not seen a single alpha or beta update with "surprise" content that hasn't been mentioned before.

Every time they announced nearly all the upcoming content.

This time it will be only a few not really gameplay relevant changes. Yes, we have more systems. But why should we care if there is nothing to do than trade between 2 different station models(with different names) and deathmatch style combat? :D
 

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Soo many threads asking about mining.

Well, they're all here for you to read through in one easy to find thread. :)

Have fun.
 
Soo many threads asking about mining.

Well, they're all here for you to read through in one easy to find thread. :)

Have fun.

Two thumbs up for the moderators as they're going to have hard work (and already have) maintaining the forums tomorrow :)
 
Not entirely true... If you flip through a mining NPC's subsystems you'll see mining lasers, and they shoot blue beams at the asteroids.

The behaviour, the equipment and the mechanics are all absent or placeholder, and you can't buy mining lasers, but they are definately not firing pulse lasers.

Except sometimes they do. I haven't visited the resource extraction zones in this build, but you could find the odd one firing a pulse laser at rocks back in the Alpha and perhaps even in PB1.
 
Yeah, I 'tried' to have a go at this earlier with the basic build. Sided with the Federation and took on the Eranin forces, since there didn't appeared to be pirates this time around. I was just about to make my first kill when another player came in and started blasting me. I assume they hadn't chosen sides, or rather chose the wrong one and then went for me. Quite persistent he was too but I made good my escape! :)

lucky you ;) They choose you!
 
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the whole mining thing. I don't think mining makes a whole lot of sense in a game like this. At least not in terms of mining raw materials that are used in everyday production and manufacturing.

We play as one pilot flying a ship around. How can a mom and pop operation like that ever gain a foothold in an industry like mining!? Even today, you or I could not compete in an industry based on mining raw materials from the earth. Massive corporations with massive amounts of capital and infrastructure dominate that market and there would be no way for an individual to compete with their economies of scale.

In the distant future, the overhead to get into a business like that would likely be even greater (considering the whole interstellar shipping factor). I just don't think it's realistic for players to be able to do that for a living.

Now gold-rush-like mining for extremely rare resources might be more believable. It would have to be a resource that cannot be found in abundance. In other words, locating it, not extracting it, should be the main challenge. Something like that would be viable in my opinion but mining iron or copper or helium 3 with a single ship seems absurd.
 
i just want mining in here, so i can be happy lol. Still no word on it YET?

Afaik theres no mining in the Beta, yeah its a huge shame. I've been waiting for it since early Alpha.

as to the person above, mining is great fun and a nice way of generating income thats different to combat or trading. I used to mine a lot in Frontier. Mining is good but I guess they have more important things to code like paint-jobs and in game ££$$££ shops ;)
 
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the whole mining thing. I don't think mining makes a whole lot of sense in a game like this. At least not in terms of mining raw materials that are used in everyday production and manufacturing.

We play as one pilot flying a ship around. How can a mom and pop operation like that ever gain a foothold in an industry like mining!? Even today, you or I could not compete in an industry based on mining raw materials from the earth. Massive corporations with massive amounts of capital and infrastructure dominate that market and there would be no way for an individual to compete with their economies of scale.

In the distant future, the overhead to get into a business like that would likely be even greater (considering the whole interstellar shipping factor). I just don't think it's realistic for players to be able to do that for a living.

Now gold-rush-like mining for extremely rare resources might be more believable. It would have to be a resource that cannot be found in abundance. In other words, locating it, not extracting it, should be the main challenge. Something like that would be viable in my opinion but mining iron or copper or helium 3 with a single ship seems absurd.

The whole settled galaxy is like the wild west. It is one big gold rush. Technology has suddenly allowed for a massive expansion of settled space. Given the massive expansion there is an almost inexhaustible demand for resources. The technology allows us to physically do it. They also created the market place so that an independent could trade extremely simply. Maybe they simply created the environment to fuel the expansion and to not be held hostage to monopolies.

Or maybe it doesn't matter. How could a Mom and Pop setup compete with a mega corp in trading? Why does a professional military or police force need our help? Except all these things have parallels in the wild west, if expansion is quick enough independents can take advantage and large organisations struggle to keep up.
 
Afaik theres no mining in the Beta, yeah its a huge shame. I've been waiting for it since early Alpha.

as to the person above, mining is great fun and a nice way of generating income thats different to combat or trading. I used to mine a lot in Frontier. Mining is good but I guess they have more important things to code like paint-jobs and in game ££$$££ shops ;)

well i know its not in this beta, but what about SB1
 
Mining is good but I guess they have more important things to code like paint-jobs and in game ££$$££ shops ;)

This may sound a little harsh, but FDEV do not develop the game according to your personal preferences man (and the graphic artists that are making the paint jobs are probably not included in programmer coding mining anyway). Deal with it, or get back in the end of the year when the game launches.. ;)
 
No Mining?

Had to leave early in the the morning for work. Just managed to install it though.
Is there the mining feature in yet?
 
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