OK, I've taken up mining for the current CG, I don't do it often, so I may be just doing it totally wrong.
I've gone to a pristine metalic ring, and my results are still pretty awful. So.
Here are some ideas to make mining less mind numbingly weird.
•Add a scanner for scanning rings.
- it can work in SC, while traveling slowly(less than 100km/s), and will give you a basic breakdown of roughly the % of goodies within a certain range, and in front,(not far, so you have to skim across the surface, until you find a good spot!)
It can still be random, like the current limpet system, but once you find a good area to mine, and drop in, you'll get more good asteroids consistent with your scan.
That way, if you're looking for a particular ore, you no longer have to go from rock to rock checking them all.
-And/Or-
A scanner similar to the SRV, which you can either filter to find the ore(s) you're looking for. (But that pretty much removes the need for prospecting limpets.) Or just have it show everything and you need to learn what the noises and things mean, like on the ground.
•Add an auto-vent filter to the refinery, so it can ditch all those pointless ores you don't want or need, without having to stare at it the entire time.
•Filters for what collector limpets will and won't collect. ( so you can dump stuff and not have them pick it straight back up again!)
I think that's it for ideas.
Thoughts?
I've gone to a pristine metalic ring, and my results are still pretty awful. So.
Here are some ideas to make mining less mind numbingly weird.
•Add a scanner for scanning rings.
- it can work in SC, while traveling slowly(less than 100km/s), and will give you a basic breakdown of roughly the % of goodies within a certain range, and in front,(not far, so you have to skim across the surface, until you find a good spot!)
It can still be random, like the current limpet system, but once you find a good area to mine, and drop in, you'll get more good asteroids consistent with your scan.
That way, if you're looking for a particular ore, you no longer have to go from rock to rock checking them all.
-And/Or-
A scanner similar to the SRV, which you can either filter to find the ore(s) you're looking for. (But that pretty much removes the need for prospecting limpets.) Or just have it show everything and you need to learn what the noises and things mean, like on the ground.
•Add an auto-vent filter to the refinery, so it can ditch all those pointless ores you don't want or need, without having to stare at it the entire time.
•Filters for what collector limpets will and won't collect. ( so you can dump stuff and not have them pick it straight back up again!)
I think that's it for ideas.
Thoughts?
