Future of Elite mining

[BIGPUNGED2000]

I hope by next year we can get few new toys for mining planet. i hope we get a automaton mining machine that can abstract mineral from a planet without you be in there. the only thing is you have to pick it up and deliver to a station to sell mineral or use it for your ship. what other ideas you guys have for the future of mining?

 

[bladebss]

Gold rushes. I would love for under sertain conditions or mabe just random, a res sit to pop up with gold rush and its there for a limmited time but all rock in that zone have high percentages of super good comodities like paladium gold platinum dimonds painite.. so if you come across one you would hop into your mining ship and make money hand over fist untill more people found it (it would show up in galnet new in the system and be visable on contacts) and then the rush would be on... mabe some fisty cuffs over the claim and pirates trying to steal the fat mining ships on there way to sell.

Possable only available in open? I think it might be too easy to miss the point if you could just solo it.. unless the npcs get in on it to mabe?

 

[Jaffz]

But but but, elite is 'not that kind of game'

God forbid we should take things that work well in other games and incorporate them into this one :0

 

[Robinson]

The trouble with mining in ED is it seems fundamentally pointless. I mean other games like Eve Online, you can actually build stuff with your minerals. Oh I do long for a player run economy. I guess the UI would be too hard for console players.

 

[Iskariot]

I hope by next year we can get few new toys for mining planet. i hope we get a automaton mining machine that can abstract mineral from a planet without you be in there. the only thing is you have to pick it up and deliver to a station to sell mineral or use it for your ship. what other ideas you guys have for the future of mining?

I do not believe such mining machines are practical in an online universe.
I would rather have a specialized mining SRV with which we can do the mining ourselves.

Something like this but cooler:

And of course we would need a cool and interesting prospecting mechanism for planets.
A combination of scans from space and more detailed localized scans with our mining SRV.

 

[lysan]

But but but, elite is 'not that kind of game'

God forbid we should take things that work well in other games and incorporate them into this one :0

Elite always had automated mining stations you could own and setup.

 

[Cupsuki]

IMPROVEMENTS ARE COMIMG ON "BEYOND".

THEY SHOWED OFF SOME
CONCEPT ART AT FX17 IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT, IM PERSONALLY QUITE EXCITED.

Alright, enough caps for today

 

[Schmack]

Mining is just fine. It's collecting that needs help.

 

[lokvette]

Elite always had automated mining stations you could own and setup.

I had many of those scatered about, was cool to drop them off and then come back a few days later.

Ive always liked remote mining, but having to land and drop somthing off, not like Warframes, click here and its dropped for you via the ui, saying that I did have to make them first from mats which you get from drops.

 

[Vasea Azure]

We can already can find npc mining installations on the surface, I suspect we will be able to deploy similar ones in "beyond".