Large Mining Laser

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

A large mining laser for class 3 hardpoints.

Benefits:

- One large rather than 2 medium allows large ships to collect more materials for their size, so that the profession's "progression" doesn't top off too early.
- Allows large ships to not sacrifice as many hardpoints, and so can mine in the much better, and thus more dangerous resource extraction sites.
- Can make mining more attractive

Problems:

- Developer time: A new mining laser model will have to be created, whether that be a tri-mount of class ones, or dual-mounted class 2's, or an entirely new model.
- Is it worth it? How many people will mine? Will it see much use for the dev time?

Thoughts?

P.S: Perhaps a blue laser rather than purple?

 

[Minonian]

Don't you think it will be unnecessarily fast? Even with 2 medium you can mine too damn fast for the collector drones. I currently using 2 medium mining lasers and 2 collector drone rack with 6 drones, and they are just not enought, to collect the chips as fast they are mined out and if i place a third rack still not going to be good enough, + my cargo bay became smaller, and my drone usage higher.

Not too much point of it unless we have better drone racks with more long lasting and most importantly smarter drones, because those damn buggers jut ran into everything and getting themselfs destroyed.

 

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

Don't you think it will be unnecessarily fast? Even with 2 medium you can mine too damn fast for the collector drones. I currently using 2 medium mining lasers and 2 collector drone rack with 6 drones, and they are just not enought, to collect the chips as fast they are mined out and if i place a third rack still not going to be good enough, + my cargo bay became smaller, and my drone usage higher.

Not too much point of it unless we have better drone racks with more long lasting and most importantly smarter drones, because those damn buggers jut ran into everything and getting themselvess destroyed.

Ooh, you're right. Let me formulate something else!

Perhaps Frontier can interconnect collector drones with future pirate-specific outfitting in unsanctioned outposts and anarchic stations. The current drones would be given a much faster speed, and be renamed Pirate-Modified Collector Limpet Controller. These would only be available in anarchic stations (those owned by "unfettered" factions).

Now FD would implement a new standard of collector drones, sold in high-tech and extraction economy stations, which would completely mirror the current drones of the 1.5/2.0 release in all ways but one - they would have many more collector drones, as many as double the standard amount, or corresponding to the class - 1 collector for class 1, 3 for class 3, 5 for class 5, and 7 for class 7.

Should I add this into the OP?

 

[Minonian]

Hehh!

We need smarter drones anyway bacause honestly, at the moment they have the tendency to run into a spinning asteroid, when they are attemting to pick up a metal chip, and destroyed in the process by dozens.

Annoying... Not just a little!

If you think you can add to the OP, but i don't think this is going to be done in this form.

Edit;
But yes... We need better drones, and drone racks or a drone MKII with better ability. If its costs more than its costs more.