I was thinking of a way to make mining just a tad better in the game. Or rather, not so cumbersome.
1. If you are mining with no limpets, and you have a gaggle of (no not geese) fragments floating about. How about a weak tractor beam that pulls them towards the cargo scoop? You have to be moving at 25 or less for it to be active and it pulls at a speed of about 10-15.
2. Enhanced Targetting with the mining lasers. I do not mind taking a bit of time to scoop up things. I JUST finished mining, I am a cheap skate and have used my last limpets and they expired before I had to finish up that rock with 19% painite... So I have all of these fragments floating. I have to target each one ONE at a time. What if when I switched to my mining lasers the little cargo scoop target box shows all fragments in line or that can be seen so that I can be a little more efficient at flying over them and scooping them up?
3. Limpets with an attitude- Hey we all know they have personalities, why not make them get close to the ship and play basketball with the fragments? They can toss them into the cargo scoop instead of flying up to the ship to deposit them? Heck, How about a bucket line even? If you have three limpets or more out there they form a chain and the end one snatches up fragments or items and then throws them to the next who throws them to the next who deposits them into the cargo hold?
4. Busy Bee limpets- Hey they fly around like little worker bees, why not give them a collection canister so they can snatch up 2-8 fragments and then come back and drop them into the cargo hold to be processed?
5. Unlimited limpets. Personally- I feel kind of bad when they EXPIRE.
<== See that? Somewhere in the galaxy another limpet just needlessly died and it made me sad. So why not remove the time limit on their life? How about, when they make it back to the ship they replenish some of that energy so that they are given more time and more life to work? OR, just make them work until the collection is done, and then they get back into the ship- OR a little limpet section made for them near the cargo hatch and upon supercruise or entering a base they get knocked off or who knows. BEtter yet, give them 300 + HP and make them get back INSIDE the ship to be reused/ repaired. Would be nice to only have to buy 50 limpets instead of 200.
I like my mining time, but I hate when I run to the very end, I have 6 empty holds on my type-7 and my last two limpets just expired with 18 fragments still in the air leaving me with a mess that I want to clean up or ignore and return without that material.
Just sayin...
1. If you are mining with no limpets, and you have a gaggle of (no not geese) fragments floating about. How about a weak tractor beam that pulls them towards the cargo scoop? You have to be moving at 25 or less for it to be active and it pulls at a speed of about 10-15.
2. Enhanced Targetting with the mining lasers. I do not mind taking a bit of time to scoop up things. I JUST finished mining, I am a cheap skate and have used my last limpets and they expired before I had to finish up that rock with 19% painite... So I have all of these fragments floating. I have to target each one ONE at a time. What if when I switched to my mining lasers the little cargo scoop target box shows all fragments in line or that can be seen so that I can be a little more efficient at flying over them and scooping them up?
3. Limpets with an attitude- Hey we all know they have personalities, why not make them get close to the ship and play basketball with the fragments? They can toss them into the cargo scoop instead of flying up to the ship to deposit them? Heck, How about a bucket line even? If you have three limpets or more out there they form a chain and the end one snatches up fragments or items and then throws them to the next who throws them to the next who deposits them into the cargo hold?
4. Busy Bee limpets- Hey they fly around like little worker bees, why not give them a collection canister so they can snatch up 2-8 fragments and then come back and drop them into the cargo hold to be processed?
5. Unlimited limpets. Personally- I feel kind of bad when they EXPIRE.
<== See that? Somewhere in the galaxy another limpet just needlessly died and it made me sad. So why not remove the time limit on their life? How about, when they make it back to the ship they replenish some of that energy so that they are given more time and more life to work? OR, just make them work until the collection is done, and then they get back into the ship- OR a little limpet section made for them near the cargo hatch and upon supercruise or entering a base they get knocked off or who knows. BEtter yet, give them 300 + HP and make them get back INSIDE the ship to be reused/ repaired. Would be nice to only have to buy 50 limpets instead of 200. I like my mining time, but I hate when I run to the very end, I have 6 empty holds on my type-7 and my last two limpets just expired with 18 fragments still in the air leaving me with a mess that I want to clean up or ignore and return without that material.
Just sayin...
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