Horizons Would be nice to TOW a ship, like your Jeep on the back of your RV... OR, fix the random spawns...

[stilly]

I think it would be a cool idea to be able to couple a ship wither another ship and make a HUGE ship, so you can hop in your type 9 that is slower than a snail up a tree and tow your FDL or Cobra or SOMETHING that can defend itself out to mine a ring.

That type 9 is NOT a good miner if you are not submissive. At least in my type-7 I can boost boost boost through people spawning when I start the game again when I am camped way out in the boonies mining a pristine metallic ring.

Type 9 FORGET ABOUT IT. I was hoping that I could fill about 1/2 or so of my holds last night and then finish it off this morning. NOPE. Lost it to a DBE and a CMKIII... (NPC wing)

There is a reason why I went out of my way to drop out of supercruise and fly WAY out in the sticks. Because I did NOT want anyone spawning by me. But when the game gets restarted after exiting, the damn respawns happen again. It sucks... What a waste of millions to rebuy that stupid ship.

Oh yeah, and then I guess because I had 400+ holds on the thing, I flew back out, got chased by a clipper who left me alone (not really a chase, like a running back chasing a possum) after he saw I only had Limpets in the holds.

Then after mining for about 5 hours, I had about 300 or so holds filled with PPP and some G and the damn 4A refinery broke and refused to process anything else. Then I could not get into supercruise to get out of it all and return to the base because it said I had gear/hardpoints/scoop deployed and I tried to close everything, but I could only exit the game and return, and then before random jerks spawned, I low waked out of there back to the station. I was expecting to be Id'd 20 times but not one word or anything... Type 9 SOLD to buy back my type-7...

Anyways. Just my two cents...

 

[777Driver]

I guess you could just learn how to fight in the T9.. I tend to mine outside the bubble, even when inside you can easily kill any of the spawns and just move on. Equip a fighter if you are suffering, learn pip management and install decent shields. Blaming your tools is never a good thing.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Hm, the only place I don't like mining in my T9 is in a HighRES/HazRES (i.e. at the edges).

Indeed too risky, but so far I haven't had issues with it.

And I mean after logging off, I know NPCs will spawn. Even after a connection loss there's plenty of time to boost out of Mass-Lock and check what's coming after me.
If it's nasty, I can still HiWake even from a Wing of 3 Clippers, just because they'll take their time approaching, scanning and making their demands.

If anything it could use a tad more agility inside a Belt - but if you're running a T9, you're not really looking for "speed-mining" anyway. There's better/faster Ships for that.
And compared to the NPCs that my Mining Conda typically sees in SC, flying the T9 tends to spawn rather mild opposition in comparison.

PS.
A SLF is a quite useful throwaway tool to take aggro off a T9. I'd recommend fitting one, if not already done.

 

[stilly]

Several things happened to make me mad at the T-9.

The FIRST was that damn npc spawn. Yeah, It is NOt a fighter. I just had not mined in months and I forgot how some of those ships can be and this was the FIRST time I had taken out the t-9 ever. It felt like driving a bus that kept trying to break down. I mean, the engines sound aweful. It tried to fire up, gets to almost 300 and then backs down again... My t-7 is like a hummingbird compared to the t-9. Never had to fight in it because I always boosted out. but the t-9 boost is sooooo damn slow... And no doubt, I should not blame the tools or the game, but in this case, I hate the t-9 and it sucks... SLF? Not familiar with that. I will have to look- Oh. Yes, I was going to consider that but I did not know that I could put one in a t-9. I saw the hangers, but nothing for the slf hangar. That is good to know. I will consider that next time, but I was going for maximum cargo space because I know that I can leave in the t-7 and get about 8+ million for about 1.5 hours of mining, and I like to hunt the minerals, I find it oddly relaxing to just flutter around from rock to rock squeezing out the good stuff.

Hey if you are out of the bubble with a ship and mining in a nice spot and you exit the game, when you return do NPCs still spawn there with you? I would think not, but based on what I have seen, why wouldn't they? One thing is for sure, I am not going to consider getting a t-9 until I have at least 250mil in the account. Until then, Now that I think of it though, I really should have considered getting an anaconda instead of the t-9. I just wanted something that held a lot more than the t-7.

Oh and yeah, I had no shields... I was running 440+ or so cargo hold size. I run no shields on my t-7 as well. no issues.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Oh and yeah, I had no shields... I was running 440+ or so cargo hold size. I run no shields on my t-7 as well. no issues.

So.... you got greedy, you gambled, and you lost?

 

[777Driver]

Hey if you are out of the bubble with a ship and mining in a nice spot and you exit the game, when you return do NPCs still spawn there with you?

If you mine outside the bubble you wont see NPC's... You have to be 700+LY outside the bubble. Vindelanos pretty much summed up this whole topic.