Ship launched miner

Topher420247

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What are the chances we will ever see a ship launched fighter that's specifically for mining. I would love to setup my cutter as the mothership boosting around scanning asteroids till i find a good core asteroid. Then you deploy the fighter (with the cutter parked a safe distance away) use the mining fighter to set charges and blow the asteroid and abrasion blast the inside sections then dock with the cutter wait for the limpets to finish collecting and on to the next asteroid...... now tell me that doesn't sound like fun
 

Nasc

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Actually, the title got me thinking about firing some guy with a pick axe and a spacesuit out of a multicannon.
"If you survive the impact, you can only come back aboard with 50 tonnes of Painite. Get digging."
 

GeoJase

GeoJase
Nasc said:
Actually, the title got me thinking about firing some guy with a pick axe and a spacesuit out of a multicannon.
"If you survive the impact, you can only come back aboard with 50 tonnes of Painite. Get digging."
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Modified torpedo tube perhaps?

OP, that would be cool, but I suspect its low on the FDev priority list
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
Other times it was discussed (not complete I'm sure):

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mining-slf.518378/#post-7920873

Oct 2018: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mining-slf.452136/ <-- By me before 3.3. Sorry to say I was wrong.

Must recent suggestion thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/ship-launched-miner.473937/

Others on Reddit:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/a0dyvh/suggestion_ship_launched_mining_vessels/
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/9vru14/mining_with_slfs/
 
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