The Mining discussion thread.

Good Idea?

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OriginalBadBoy

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Togg said:
I do hope.. REALLY do hope that mining is more than simply click rock, click mining laser, go get tea.

its the one reason I never got into mining in EvE, Pirates be damned, it was the BORING act of mining itself that turned me off.
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Of course it will be like that .. Finding what to mine will be more interesting.

I dont see how else you could do it , other than maybe having to target a particular part of an asteroid ...
 

Jorlin

Jorlin
OriginalBadBoy said:
Of course it will be like that .. Finding what to mine will be more interesting.

I dont see how else you could do it , other than maybe having to target a particular part of an asteroid ...
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maybe in form of another minigame like docking or cargoscooping.
a scanner showing the spots with highest mineral concentration you can "aim" at. in case of rotating rocks this could keep you occupied enough to maybe neglecting the "radar" a bit too much ;)
 

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Also I possible I guess that they'll bring in a mining rig like we had in Frontier Elite 2? Of course, it'd need to have a beacon so you can come back and pick it up later... a beacon which with the right hacking tools could be used by a nefarious individual to find it in order to steal it/reprogram it/blow it up/ransom it...
 

Bobbydylan

Bobbydylan
I really like this idea. A mining drone you fire into the asteroid, then leave it to do it's thing. Come back to find a few containers of minerals floating around.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
My bet is on secret pirate base :)

However I suspect mining could be surprise feature addition. I think David said it's already there (in PB1) but that might mean it's disabled. And as it is unexplored system, you will have to create POIs yourself possibly....
 
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StefanOS

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StefanOS
I bet it will be mining, we have to get this in game and test it, its a bit late already ....

The other great thing we couldnt do is exploration ..... but thats fortherdown I think
 

Steve50

Steve50
I've been waiting for mining to be added since Alpha 2.0

I won't get my hopes up today though, I doubt mining is in Beta 2.0 but if it was, I'd be very happy.
 

Vikinger

Vikinger
Just the name of the system Styx, make me think its not that friendly place.



From greek mythology Styx, The river that is the transition between life and death.
 

Ascyltos

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I think mining as well. In the resource extraction zones you sometimes see Sidewinders or Cobras blasting into asteroids with big blue beam lasers. If you do a subsystem scan they all have a piece of kit called "Mining laser," and if you blow them up for whatever reason sometimes they'll drop cargos not available in stations such as beryllium, indite, uraninite, etc. So I suspect it's about 80% already implemented, is mining.
 

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
Ascyltos said:
I think mining as well. In the resource extraction zones you sometimes see Sidewinders or Cobras blasting into asteroids with big blue beam lasers. If you do a subsystem scan they all have a piece of kit called "Mining laser," and if you blow them up for whatever reason sometimes they'll drop cargos not available in stations such as beryllium, indite, uraninite, etc. So I suspect it's about 80% already implemented, is mining.
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You are probably correct, however those features have been in since Alpha 2.
 

Vikinger

Vikinger
Or it could be an exploration system, to test that feature out, since we don't have any information regard that system.
 

AndyEdgson

AndyEdgson
Pecisk said:
My bet is on secret pirate base :)

However I suspect mining could be surprise feature addition. I think David said it's already there (in PB1) but that might mean it's disabled. And as it is unexplored system, you will have to create POIs yourself possibly....
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Do we get to inflate our own space station?
 
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