100% agree. It is high time that Limpets were made into Ammo. Not infinite though.
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100% agree. It is high time that Limpets were made into Ammo. Not infinite though.
They're not ammo because they're programmable, ship launched drones. It makes sense the way it is currently.
Nah worked out well.
Because it would make too much sense otherwise, so FDev can't allow it
I was going to agree with you but now I kinda want it to stay the way it is until you have a complete meltdown on the forum. You had me at exploding refrigerator.
By the way, what ship are you mining in that you destroy your own prospectors? Is this only since 3.3? I've used a Dropship and Python and never had this happen. I deploy while moving most of the time and steer after firing the limpet since there is a delay to deploy. I've even outpaced my own prospectors on the way to the rock without issue.
By the way, what ship are you mining in that you destroy your own prospectors? Is this only since 3.3? I've used a Dropship and Python and never had this happen. I deploy while moving most of the time and steer after firing the limpet since there is a delay to deploy. I've even outpaced my own prospectors on the way to the rock without issue.
For limpet destruction, it's easily possible but wildly variable depending on what seems like black-box magic reasons. I've had limpets avoid all the everything and last forever, and ones that cult-suicide one after the other against an asteroid because the angle was 3 degrees out. On the whole they are not very smart items.
as much as i'd love infinite, it wouldn't feel right to me. but as synthesisable (sp?) ammo - yeah, that's the way to go.
Ya that magic fairy dust that takes up zero cargo space or mod slots feels so right lol!
Agree.
Disagree. Of all the places that developers put RNG into, mineral prospecting is one of those that is actually legitimate.
I haven't mined since 3.3 dropped, so I can't say anything about hotspots and so forth, only that the new mining mechanics look cool and I have seen plenty of people speak glowingly of them.
As to limpets and controllers, my 2c is to keep limpets as weighty objects stored in cargo, but also have the controllers include storage space for more limpets. The idea is that when you launch a collector, it does so from that collector's own store, and then that collector auto-replenishes that store from your supply in general cargo. That way the ridiculously low control capacity of the larger controllers can finally make sense, and where perhaps engineering can swap out controllable numbers for storable numbers, or something like that. That and I agree with others' sentiments that limpets fired off to collect one bit of cargo are recoverable and repairable (up to the same flight time-limit as non-specific limpets, anyway).
Have to agree about the limpets needing a makeover (ammo or infinte i dont really care) having just tested out the new mining its the one thing i really dislike and has always irked me.
A thought about the ULC (universal limpet control) could be to choose which limpet is required through the UI, the better class could be how much ammo (limpets) and/or how many active limpets or roles they can be assigned. All subject to debate mind you.
Perhaps even keeping the differing controllers but at least give them ammo count rather than the cargo limpets.
A thought about the ULC (universal limpet control) could be to choose which limpet is required through the UI, the better class could be how much ammo (limpets) and/or how many active limpets or roles they can be assigned. All subject to debate mind you.
Perhaps even keeping the differing controllers but at least give them ammo count rather than the cargo limpets.
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I strongly disagree with the idea of limpets being ammo based. There's a (range, Ly) investment in deciding how many to take. I also think a universal controller is way OP and even a double controller starts into territory of all ships having all capabilities. That's dodgy ground imo, while not forgetting either that after 3.3 all ships across the game have just been given an extra slot.
Dumb?? Why should they even be smart? I am Groot.
Dumb?? Why should they even be smart? I am Groot.
I've been pleasantly surprised by the pathing done by the collectors.
I've been zipping in and around core fragments, and they've had no issues keeping up. Only on a few occasions have the done the accidental faceplant. I honestly thought their AI got a buff in this update.
Now the prospectors slamming into the hatch and dying on deployment, that's one's a bit frustrating, and a new one for me.
On another note, I'd still love to see a universal limpet controller, or at least some combo controllers ho help consolidate the limpet sprawl.
I've been zipping in and around core fragments, and they've had no issues keeping up. Only on a few occasions have the done the accidental faceplant. I honestly thought their AI got a buff in this update.
Now the prospectors slamming into the hatch and dying on deployment, that's one's a bit frustrating, and a new one for me.
On another note, I'd still love to see a universal limpet controller, or at least some combo controllers ho help consolidate the limpet sprawl.