They should have sensors equipped that allow them to detect solid objects. Just some basic collision detection as a bare minimum. This alone would greatly help. Right now, you have to babysit them and waste time that you could spend actually mining. This especially gets problematic now with asteroid core mining. Where you want to use the time positioning and shooting of surface fragments of the exposed core, while the collectors are collecting the floating fragments. They already have timed life so it's pretty pointless for them to have suicidal behavior on top of that. Quite frankly this is getting tiring. This should have been changed alongside the introduction of the new mining mechanics. It's not like this hasn't been suggested before.
Collector limpets should have basic collision detection using sensors
- Thread starter D3rv1sh
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I find (for me) they've been greatly improved over 3.2 standards.
If I have collection limpets out when I crack a rock, they'll zoom right in, navigate the breaking apart asteroid, and pull fragments out, even before I can see them.
I only tend to lose them when the fragment is "stuck" to the asteroid, in which case I use my Anaconda's nose to knock is lose.
They do still hit ship wreckage though, but they're no where near as suicidal as they used to be.
If I have collection limpets out when I crack a rock, they'll zoom right in, navigate the breaking apart asteroid, and pull fragments out, even before I can see them.
I only tend to lose them when the fragment is "stuck" to the asteroid, in which case I use my Anaconda's nose to knock is lose.
They do still hit ship wreckage though, but they're no where near as suicidal as they used to be.
Are you playing on the PC?