For large ships: Ship-Launched Mining Craft.

[AtotheCtotheG]

I’d be surprised if this hasn’t been suggested before, but I’m not gonna dig through pages of suggestions to find out.

Title says it all, really: large ships, such as the Anaconda, and especially the Type-9 Heavy, could benefit greatly from being able to deploy ship-launched fighters equipped with mining tools.

For the old mining, this isn’t so important. You point a laser at a rock and hold the fire key. But the new mining methods almost always involve moving your ship around an asteroid to deploy blasters, missiles, and charges at key points in order to extract resources.

I just got an Anaconda, and I plan on mining with it, but I do not relish the thought of that huge hull trying to maneuver around inside a planetary ring.

I dunno, maybe it’ll be better than I think; I haven’t actually started mining in it yet. But somehow I get the feeling that it will be frustrating.

 

[Captain Thea Kreutzer]

I’d be surprised if this hasn’t been suggested before, but I’m not gonna dig through pages of suggestions to find out.

Title says it all, really: large ships, such as the Anaconda, and especially the Type-9 Heavy, could benefit greatly from being able to deploy ship-launched fighters equipped with mining tools.

For the old mining, this isn’t so important. You point a laser at a rock and hold the fire key. But the new mining methods almost always involve moving your ship around an asteroid to deploy blasters, missiles, and charges at key points in order to extract resources.

I just got an Anaconda, and I plan on mining with it, but I do not relish the thought of that huge hull trying to maneuver around inside a planetary ring.

I dunno, maybe it’ll be better than I think; I haven’t actually started mining in it yet. But somehow I get the feeling that it will be frustrating.

Its been suggested a few times. I personally dont care much i rarely use the fighters as they are.

 

[Brrokk]

Yes please, even a SLF with a single abrasion blaster, for getting inside those exploded core asteroids.

 

[Maeve]

Wasn't something like that already announced? I'm sure I saw some mining fighter somewhere. It looked like big bubble with thrusters and mining lasers.

 

[Misty_Dark]

the problem I see with the mining fighter.


This works with multicrew, but I do not expect this to be used much. Based on what is the end goal of doing mining? making credits mostly. and how much credits will your multicrew get? They haven't fixed this for wings...


Some practical issues

• How do you tell your NPC pilot what todo? lets say you want to tell your NPC to blow up a rock, now if the NPC does it, it removes the minigame. or yopu have to micro manage and tell NPC what todo, but what is the point in that?
• If you are in the Mining fighter, how well can your NPC pilot manage to collect tuff and fly your your big ship?

I see alot of switching between big ship and mining fighter based on existing game mechanics.




I like the concept of a mining fighter, but I cannot really see the benefit if it would just be a SLF with some mining tools instead.... Fun to test, but probably not used much.