Mining with AI

[Minrah]

if you guys do choose to have AI in the future not sure if you're going to or not. I was thinking it would be cool to have an option to designate a cargo hatch in your wing group, and you could have another ship have nothing but collector drones but go to your cargo hatch. Would think mining would go alot faster and be on par with bounty hunting and also have the other ship (AI) be able to mine for you as well.

let me know what you guys think

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

i'm struggling to see a point to this.

 

[CMDR Hagglebeard]

I would personally like to mine your ship

From Limoncello Lizard: i'm struggling to see a point to this.

He's saying that he'd like to be able to hire an NPC ship to do the collecting portion of his mining process, so he could fit other things. Then I guess he'd travel with the NPC back to the station to sell. What I don't see is how this is in any way beneficial. If you give all of the internal compartment modules to the NPC, you have nothing left in your innards, unless you're geared up to fight. Or, perhaps, you're the guy hosting the drones, and you have a few NPCs doing the actual mining.

Dear OP, NPC wings are planned.

 

[Minrah]

I would personally like to mine your ship

Yarrrrr!!!!

ok so say that i have a Anaconda that is fit for mining and I have NPCs in my wing, I was saying that I thought it would be cool to have the NPCs fitted with only collector drones and have them go to YOUR cargo and not theirs thus making mining go faster.

 

[ChaosCloud]

I got a trading and mining Python with 2 looting limpets and I don't really see a point in this either. Mining already became way less of a pain now that the refinery isn't full on anymore :>
If we'd now get the option to drop cargo in a way that the limpets ignore it or the ability to actually scred it instead of dropping it I'd have nothing to complain anymore, well apart from scanner limpets vs no dedicated scan mechanism that doesn't need ammo but whatever, I went past that a while ago.