Not really, doesn't need to be a new technique , you just add a new mineral to asteroid rings, and done.
The Tritium Rises (Wrath of Sub-Surface Mining?)
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Not really, doesn't need to be a new technique , you just add a new mineral to asteroid rings, and done.
Agreed. I'm 90% sure it will be just another standard mining commodity, maaaaybe one that encourages subsurface mining.
However, I would like to float the slim possibility that they will use this as the basis to include the long-rumoured comets into the game, and make those a rich source of tritium.
In real life, I believe comets do have varying amounts of deuterium and tritium in ice form, due to the bombardment of water ice by unfiltered solar/cosmic rays.
Beyond: Chapter Four, which WAS to include Fleet Carriers right up until a few weeks before release, also introduced detailed volumetric effects of exactly the sort comets would require for the coma and tail. It seems like all the engine technology is now in place, and came into place in the very same update Fleet Carriers would have arrived in.
It's interesting that they added little-known, obscure phenomena like Kordylewski clouds (Lagrange clouds) with these effects, and not these widely-known, celebrated, and requested bodies. A heavily scaled-up ice ring rock, a cloud of gas around it in normal space, and a more diffuse tail at the supercruise scale, maybe a few fractures and gas vents that can push our ships around, similar to what we already have on planets, attach it all to the pre-existing, pre-modelled cometary orbits already present under the hood... BOOM! We've got comets.
Strange they haven't done it yet, UNLESS, with the removal of Fleet Carriers from Chapter Four, they no longer had a purpose for them at the time.
Like I say, very unlikely, I wouldn't expect this to be the case, but it's a remote possibility.
But it's definitely more likely than them sneaking accessible gas giants into the update.
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HA! I was right - sort of!
Want carrier fuel? Get sub-surface and erm, surface deposit mining!
So just... mining then.
It'll also be inside cores - because "surface deposits" are what are inside the cores so you'll be able to find asteroids with tritium cores.
It's just mining, they didn't bother to think about it really, just, add another mineral to the list.
Whatever the mining method, I'm quite worried about the possibility of needing 500 tons of mined stuff (hours of mining) to do one jump. :-(So Tritium - the fuel for Fleet Carriers - is a gas.
It can be purchased. And it can be mined.
You see where I'm going with this? (probably to SoWrong Avenue after taking a left off WhatTheFrack Highway but hey!
What if, the Tritium is trapped under the surface of rocks?
What if, we had some way of releasing that precious gas from its rocky prison?
What if, Sub-Surface Mining roars back into the limelight, to seize the hearts and minds of Miners?
I think the thing is, despite the decision to break the de jure association between fleet carriers and squadrons, at least in terms of journeying in one, they're still very much designed as a group "project".
It's possible to do it alone if you want to role play as Sysiphus.
For a lot of people that's not necessarily a bad thing. Most people's enjoyment seems to be enhanced by engaging with others, they're usually just either too lazy to seek them out, people are too spread apart in the galaxy. This incentivises people working together, which seems to be what Frontier wants. It's understandable.
It's not for me, though. I've tried joining squadrons and even having real life friends play with me, I just don't really like talking or typing to other people while playing a game. I'm probably one of the last people to come of age playing games without an internet connection. Unless it's something purely competitive and disposable, having social obligations in my toy is a drag to me. But I know those who feel that way are a minority, and I fully understand why we're not a primary focus for Frontier.