Collector Limpet Controller Suggestion

[Shrapnel316]

I am sure that I am not the only asteroid miner who has run into this problem:

You find an asteroid full of valuable metals, but your cargo hold is full. You jettison your lesser metals/minerals into the great void to make room for your new found fortune. Just as you give the asteroid a taste of your mining lasers you are notified that your cargo hold is once again full, because your collector limpets have returned your unwanted goods back into your cargo hold.

I have a suggestion to fix this. You should be able to bring up a menu for the Collector Limpet Controller that lets you enable or disable different types of items for it to pick up, like so:

[ ] Canisters

[X] Asteroid Fragments

Problem solved, now you can jettison away without worry

Great game guys, keep up the great work!

 

[CMDR IAN NORTON]

I quite like this

 

[Lestat]

You are making it too hard. I fly a python. 200 Cargo hold. With two mining lasers. a Refinery Bin with 10 bins and 5 collectors. I know extreme. If you manage what in your bin it really easy.

I tend to keep my Cargo almost full with 170 limpets. There a reason why I keep that many.

1 I Tend to mine all the ore while my cargo hatch is closed. Then I open it. Then I manage my Bins. Then vent the ores I don't want.

2 When my Hold is full of Limpets and ore I scan around for more asteroids Which empty my Bins and fill my hold. At the same time It give me time to eject Ores I don't want or need with out having the limpet collroller taking the conisters and adding to my hold. It only disable one Collector.

I only mine Painite Platinum palladium gold and Osmium. I tend to take almost 4 Million per run.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

+1

Good idea, been suggested before, but doesn't change the fact it's good!

Beats having to wait for your limpets to expire, jetison your unwanted cargo, then latteral thrust down to flatten it all. Lol

I still find mining mind numbingly boring though.

 

[Lestat]

+1

Good idea, been suggested before, but doesn't change the fact it's good!

Beats having to wait for your limpets to expire, jetison your unwanted cargo, then latteral thrust down to flatten it all. Lol

I still find mining mind numbingly boring though.

Thing is I never have to jetison my unwanted cargo because there no cargo that is unwanted. Right now all that in my hold is worth over 7000 each I think I have about 4 Million credit worth of cargo in my hold.

Micromanagement is part of game play.