If I ever find a way to get my turrets to fire on multiple targets I'll hug a puppy dog (I'm a cat person). --Momentai :3
Mining mods? Spitball away!
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If I ever find a way to get my turrets to fire on multiple targets I'll hug a puppy dog (I'm a cat person). --Momentai :3
Well, the way I use Prospectors is a little different. I take over 200 limpets into an asteroid field. Between my two Prospector controllers, I target 8 rocks and then go through the contacts list to see which ones I will mine.
2 med and 2 Large lasers (and 6 collector limpets) make short work of the rocks I like before the prospectors die of old age.
Out of the 8 (4+4) active prospector limpets, I usually settle on only 2 or 3 targets. The rest sit and wait until I shut the controllers off to reset the cycle.
MY mod wish (the OP) is to somehow use those idle drones to prospect while I collect or lase rocks.
If I shut the controller off before the lasing is finished, the yield-boost is wasted, so I'd like to be able to target a roid that is useless - kill the drone that sits upon its surface and re-task a new drone to fire to a new rock.
Most of you seem to be using one prospector at a time. I can see how you might simply want higher yields, greater laser ranges, better refineries, smarter collector controllers and so on.
Try mining with an Anaconda or a Vette tasked solely for that purpose and your priorities for mining mods could shift.
Conda 3 of 3, for your amusement:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/...w18ZlA=.Aw18cBMCMlkA?bn=3AM3 at Frey april 11
The Vette at Frey
http://coriolis.io/outfit/federal_c...24.Iw18WAMlA===.CwBj4ywZiuSA?bn=Miner at Frey
GREAT thread, op!
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2 med and 2 Large lasers (and 6 collector limpets) make short work of the rocks I like before the prospectors die of old age.
Out of the 8 (4+4) active prospector limpets, I usually settle on only 2 or 3 targets. The rest sit and wait until I shut the controllers off to reset the cycle.
MY mod wish (the OP) is to somehow use those idle drones to prospect while I collect or lase rocks.
If I shut the controller off before the lasing is finished, the yield-boost is wasted, so I'd like to be able to target a roid that is useless - kill the drone that sits upon its surface and re-task a new drone to fire to a new rock.
Most of you seem to be using one prospector at a time. I can see how you might simply want higher yields, greater laser ranges, better refineries, smarter collector controllers and so on.
Try mining with an Anaconda or a Vette tasked solely for that purpose and your priorities for mining mods could shift.
Conda 3 of 3, for your amusement:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/...w18ZlA=.Aw18cBMCMlkA?bn=3AM3 at Frey april 11
The Vette at Frey
http://coriolis.io/outfit/federal_c...24.Iw18WAMlA===.CwBj4ywZiuSA?bn=Miner at Frey
GREAT thread, op!
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Personally, rather than more tools, I'd rather FDev revamped the whole mining process. Have BB missions that serve a purpose for instance, seeking out rare materials in remote deep space systems. What is in effect now is that no matter where you mine... be it deep space or in a res site, you find the same common rubbish in every single pristine ring. According to my findings, every single planetary body consists of very little aside from Bertrandite and Indite with smatterings of other stuff...
I'm looking forward to Ice ring mining just for the variety... but there's still no reason to mine anything aside from earning petty cash and relaxation. There's no apparent need to supply stations and outposts with raw materials, nobody ever runs out of anything... nobody builds anything, nobody develops anything. That will change with Engineers, sure, but not enough for me.
The RNGesus to end all RNG, mining... where what you find in every single rock is decided when the onboard computer voice informs you that the prospector you're about to fire is 'programming'... I can almost hear the dice rolling...
There's no sense in the way rings are made up the way it stands... you find a high % Painite rock, then prospect another 30 to 50 RNG tumbling rocks which resemble identical lumps of metallic space turd before you find another. Surely... planetary debris should follow some basic rules of physics instead of complete and utter random nonsense?
I'm looking forward to Ice ring mining just for the variety... but there's still no reason to mine anything aside from earning petty cash and relaxation. There's no apparent need to supply stations and outposts with raw materials, nobody ever runs out of anything... nobody builds anything, nobody develops anything. That will change with Engineers, sure, but not enough for me.
The RNGesus to end all RNG, mining... where what you find in every single rock is decided when the onboard computer voice informs you that the prospector you're about to fire is 'programming'... I can almost hear the dice rolling...
There's no sense in the way rings are made up the way it stands... you find a high % Painite rock, then prospect another 30 to 50 RNG tumbling rocks which resemble identical lumps of metallic space turd before you find another. Surely... planetary debris should follow some basic rules of physics instead of complete and utter random nonsense?
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Ten-year plan!
But I hear ya.. have some rep.. great point.
Ice is a step in the right direction. Surface mining with a new Srv variant, should be the next.
I would love it if a few old torn-up mining rigs and bases were out there to discover..
or if INSTANCING worked as it should!
Every time I mine in a wing, I see one thing, and the guy i'm working with sees something else. Pointless!
Off topic, but there seems to be a few dedicated miners here to vent to.
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But I hear ya.. have some rep.. great point.
Ice is a step in the right direction. Surface mining with a new Srv variant, should be the next.
I would love it if a few old torn-up mining rigs and bases were out there to discover..
or if INSTANCING worked as it should!
Every time I mine in a wing, I see one thing, and the guy i'm working with sees something else. Pointless!
Off topic, but there seems to be a few dedicated miners here to vent to.
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Spike553
When wing mining and one of you finds a decent rock... once you've depleted it, get your wingmate to fire his own prospector at it instead of reading your prospector and it'll magically be refilled for him with what you've just mined. One of the many benefits of wing mining
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