Multicrew Mining - Can the Gunner please get their own set of fragments?

[DemiserofD]

With the PCMK2 coming soon, and it being very well designed for multicrew, how about allowing mining gunners to have a reason to exist?

In a normal wing, everyone gets their own fragments, but a gunner with turreted mining lasers does not. It'd be really neat if the gunner could also get their own fragments, to encourage players to come along, fly a fighter to defend, then drop back in to do some mining, etc.

 

[aRJay]

I am not sure how this works in terms of the game world.

The gunner is on your ship via telepresence the fragments are physically on your ship how do they get them off your ship to their own thousands of light years away?

 

[DemiserofD]

I am not sure how this works in terms of the game world.

The gunner is on your ship via telepresence the fragments are physically on your ship how do they get them off your ship to their own thousands of light years away?

That would just be shared via the shared mining bond. You get 5% bonus profits for being there. It's just that right now, the added effort is just not worth it for either side to bother. Just going mining yourself is full profits for everyone. What this would essentially do is allow one player to help another player at a distance, such as for merits, or to defend each other.

You could imagine several different players mining in several different locales, and whenever they find a good rock or get attacked by pirates, they multicrew together to deal with it, then go back to solo mining in between.