Ooooohhh. Can we have this Frontier? -Pretty Please?

[Gypsy12]

Y'know, I watched Aliens the last day annnd,

Deep Space Mining Please! What would be truly AWESOME would be to have a MASSIVE mining rig. Like, way bigger than a T9. Im talking something we can put 2 ships IN. A Medium and a small. Or 1 big ship hanging underneath (That Dropship "Hang on tight" flying through the storm scene) (Edited)
Something that is monumentally large. That could also act as a player base.

And they would be "Discouraged" from the Bubble. (Edit) Well, anyone suicidal enough to stay in open or solo in the bubble in one of these things would deserve it.
Having 2 docks allows other players to rest up and maybe do some minor repairs on a DWE or something. You could head out into the Galaxy for months or years at a time, exploring and mining. Then come back with a full load of high grade Ores. And offload them using the smaller ships. (Edit) We need a Cash sink IMHO. What with all this extra cash floating around.
EDIT: Cash floating around= New mining system

But there is also this: At some stage the new mining system is going to be nerfed. It SHOULD be good, but not THAT good. There are also balancing issues that need to be addressed. And it kinda makes sense that the really valuable stuff should be hard to find, or distant. The further, the more exotic. New players could hitch a ride, and make some money fast. (Edit: All elements have been discovered, blah,blah blah - Dude: Build me a warp drive or Guardian tech. Meta alloys anyone? Maybe floating Umbrella poop is AMAZINGGGG!)

There could be scenarios where mining rocks near some of those new aliens can cause problems...Maybe you need NPC Soldiers on board? To Nuke something from Orbit?

Others wouldn't be able too see where you are on the Galmap, but perhaps other players could listen on the DDS for radio chatter. Which means that maybe roving gangs of Pirates might catch up with you.

Any Takers? [smile]

 

[Andovar]

Something that is monumentally large. That could also act as a player base.

Squadron carriers.
They're scheduled for ̶3̶.̶3̶.... er, um, soon.

 

[cheesenbiscuits]

Pilotable capital sized ships would be a sweet addition. Not sure if the fleet carriers are going to be flyable as such which feels like a missed opportunity as big ships float my boat.

 

[Shiro Akai]

Deep Space Mining Please!

We already have that. Tho in not a scale you are wishing for. But it's there.

What would be truly AWESOME would be to have a MASSIVE mining rig. Im talking something we can put 2 ships in. A Medium and a small. Or 1 big ship.
Something that is monumentally large.

Um... make up your mind already. MASSIVE or medium and small put together. For medium and small put together won't be massive.

Like, way bigger than a T9.

question: how would you unload your cargo? It won't fit through mail slot...

That could also act as a player base.

As mentioned - fleet carriers for that are already announced.

And they would be banned from the Bubble.

question: how one acquire/buy one then? Banned in the bubble where ship dealers are, outside bubble where allowed no dealer to be found. Colonia then?

Well, maybe not.

Ah. Ok.

Anyone suicidal enough to stay in open in the bubble in one of these things would deserve it.

I already taste the salt that would flood the forums after first purchase and first destruction. Solo mode included.

Having 2 docks allows other players to rest up and maybe do some minor repairs on a DWE or something. You could head out into the Galaxy for months or years at a time, exploring and mining.

Star Citizen forum ------------> this way. Ship you are thinking of is... Aegis Reclaimer? I believe it's called that.

Also - it would require months or years to fully load that monster? I bet you didn't thought much about that idea, amirite?

Then come back with a full load of high grade Ores.

again: where would you sell it (banned from bubble, remember?) and how (bigger than T9, won't fit anywhere)?

We need a Cash sink IMHO. What with all this extra cash floating around.

1. no, we don't.
2. Point me toward that place where cash is floating. I could use a billion or two.

And it kinda makes sense that the really valuable stuff should be hard to find, or distant. The further, the more exotic.

No, it doesn't. All elements are already known, new ones are either theoretical or artificially made. Distant places won't have anything new so sorry, no Unobtainium deposits on the other side.

There could be scenarios where mining rocks near some of those new aliens can cause problems...Maybe you need NPC Soldiers on board? To Nuke something from Orbit?

Big miner. Nuking things from orbit... ugh, reminds me old thing.

late '70s newspaper:
"Unprovoked field harvester was attacked by a batallion of imperialistic tanks. Harvester returned fire with massive rocket barrage, destroying whole enemy batallion. After achiving victory, peacefully flew away to home base."

Others wouldn't be able too see where you are on the Galmap, but perhaps other players could listen on the DDS for radio chatter. Which means that maybe roving gangs of Pirates might catch up with you.

<scroll up a bit> distant... the further...
<scroll up a bit> head out into the Galaxy for months or years
listen to radio chatter

radio waves in space... speed of light...

Either you are exactly on the spot (somewhat contradicting "others won't see you on map) or you're few LYs away and decades/millenniums late to the party.

Y'know, I watched Aliens the last day annnd,

Don't you have that funny feeling behind your chest right now?


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Sorry for bursting your bubble, habit of mine finding holes.

 

[krylite]

OP, did you mean the the first movie "Alien"(1979) by Ridley Scott as opposed to Cameron's "Aliens"(1987)? While the Nostromo rig was mentioned in Aliens as destroyed property , the rig model and interior shots only appeared in the first movie.

Also, the Alien franchise at least at the time of the first Alien movies, only had slow FTL speed necessitating hypersleep travelling only a few score or fewer lightyears.

In "Prometheus"(2012) , Fassbender's "David" android mentioned the Prometheus had travelled "2 years, 4 months , 18 days" to arrive at the Zeta 2 Reticulae system. Which is about 34.6 Ly from Sol where their max cruising speed would have been about 14.5c (warp 2.1).

In ED's time and technology, hundreds or thousands of T freighters or condas/cutters could already transport more ore tonnage effectively and faster within hundreds or thousands of Ly. Maybe ED could have a "ore rig" megaship as part of the earlier ages of slower than FTL travel, or slower witchspace travelling. Maybe a lone thargoid in a derelict running havoc , stalking and skewering spaceleg salvagers/explorers from the shadows in the "death" rig, lol.

 

[Gypsy12]

Oops... First one. Once I watch the first one, its straight on to the second. Sorry, cant be helped!

And @Shiro: Spoilsport.

 

[Tarman]

"I do not want another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip. You understand?"

Yes Mr. Stark.

I like how the quote itself is onesuch item.

 

[Gypsy12]

"I do not want another single pop culture reference out of you for the rest of the trip. You understand?"

Sheesh. Old people.

 

[bladebss]

I too have had a recent alien binge. I just woke up and needed to watch them. What are the odds, must be somthing in the air... *looks over at his alien covenant dvd*

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I like mining as much as the next space mole, but even I have my limits. 704 tons of limpets is all I can take, then I’m spent. What the OP suggests is madness!

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

I like mining as much as the next space mole, but even I have my limits. 704 tons of limpets is all I can take, then I’m spent. What the OP suggests is madness!

What I would like would be a massive surface mining rig ... Perhaps attachable to a T9 that we fly into deep space or maybe we build it on site taking various journeys and we land it in a rich vein on planet's surface (so stage 1 would be locating such an area) once done we put it down and set it up and then leave to do it's stuff. perhaps every week or so we go back, land next to it and then ferry stuff from it to our T9. Sometimes we will get messages that there is a problem with the machinery and we have to go out and fix it, other times we get messages that stuff has been stolen but if we had the tracker upgrade we can chase it down and deliver justice on the thieves. Over time we get multiple of these units if we want and be full time surface miners a bit like a fisherman checking lobster pots. When an area runs dry we find new one

 

[HugoStiglitz574]

I like the capital ship size mining rig, something that can come in and strip mine the whole ring system. Everything gets sucked up or chewed up. You come out with 9000 tones of Void Opals and all the rest of the we dont care about.... That being said, an operation like that could seriously screw up the market system we have, Priced will plunge overnight as there will be a glut on the market. Then again, maybe make it where you can only sell to a government or to a industry. Also, there will have to be some game mechanic where the rings come back, Someone might get if I rolled in and stripped mines the hell out of Saturn rings making them go away for ever.

 

[Villeruff]

It's pretty unlikely. To paraphrase Sandro a little, 'the player's experience in Elite in intended to be that of a pilot'.

 

[Burke]

Sounds like you are asking for player pilotable dredgers. I think it would be an excellent idea. A massive floating junk heap with a jump range in the upper mids and enough (specialised) cargo space it might take months or longer to totally fill up. And then it just drifts round eating asteroids and space junk, old crashed ships...escape pods etc. It could syphon gas clouds of various kinds or even land on the surface and begin serious mining operations of the type that would leave a surface scar after it left.

And that play style has good solid roots in established lore.

Now watch this, it makes him sound like homer simpson.

https://youtu.be/-HyHZsa79LU?t=660

 

[Sebulonus2]

Love the idea of deep space mining rigs that lets you go on longer lode hunts in the black

 

[Gypsy12]

It's pretty unlikely. To paraphrase Sandro a little, 'the player's experience in Elite in intended to be that of a pilot'.

NOT A CHANCE!

 

[Gypsy12]

So. Lets make this clear. You don't want harpoons to help you drag yourself to the surface in the extreme winds of an unknown planet. O...k...

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

As a solo player, that's exactly what i was dreaming about doing with squadron carriers. Slowly over time, get one and move it out of the bubble near some nebula somewhere and be set. If they generated missions like the cannon one even better.

But wow its frontier and they are more monolithic than nimble in their development.

Id be happy with a galaxy map filter that displayed whether a system had a tourist beacon or not... hard to think of why this wasn't done for the initial passengers release.

 

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

A massive freighter mothership where you launch ships in it's hangars down to a planetside automatic mining rig which you have dotted all over the place.

Ship launched from mothership flies down and picks up containers bring them up to the mother ship and attach to the side of the mother ship and you then continue on to the next mining rig.

Then back to sell what you got.

These big freighters are vulnerable to pirates and require multicrews to defend in turrets and fighters.

 

[Gypsy12]

Yea OK. Im still having an orgasm over the sheer SOUND through the securing lines. SORRY! FDEV are mental if they don't! Last comment! (Kiss kiss kiss, cmon u bit.....)