Soo many threads asking about mining.
Well, they're all here for you to read through in one easy to find thread.
Have fun.
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.
Two thumbs up for the moderators as they're going to have hard work (and already have) maintaining the forums tomorrow![]()
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!![]()
i just want mining in here, so i can be happy lol. Still no word on it YET?
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.
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 ££$$££ shops![]()
Mining is good but I guess they have more important things to code like paint-jobs and in game ££$$££ shops![]()
well i know its not in this beta, but what about SB1
It will be in one of Simple Beta releases, be it SB1 or SB2. However, it seems most likely it will be in second one, which is probably month or so away.
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Had to leave early in the the morning for work. Just managed to install it though.
Is there the mining feature in yet?