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Thread: The Solution To Space Mining
Obviously it's too much work to make the above systems useful, just remove them.
then fix gcw and frs. Thanks
Message Edited by ParnellOfBria on 06-16-2005 06:29 PM
I like this idea, but i think they should employ two ways of mining.... Keep the original way of mining with blasting the rock to bits, but only a small chance of pirates being alerted, and only a small yeild because your blasting the rock to tiny bits... then add the above mentioned way to mine, but add a very increased alert to pirates, but having a high yield of ore because your useing a drill to deposit ore directly into the cargo hold...
Just my two cents
GrimBear wrote:
I quite like the idea. cutting off tiny chunks and running around is 1 man ship work. Docking and running full on excavation equipment is team work.
I'd also suggest that pobs can carry more than 5k of resources and make it so small ships can dock with it and transfer cargo.
And there again is another reason to be able to dock fighters with POB ships.....
............learn to use the bloodytractor beam properly 
Message Edited by JakinIrali on 06-17-2005 12:38 PM
JakinIrali wrote:
So keep the old way but add a new easier way that harvests faster?
In other words, you wantless reward forthose who workharder.
you're almost definately thepresident ofsome corporation somewhere....
It sounds like you essentially want mining in space to work approximately the same way as it does on the ground, but instead of dropping a harvester you dock your ship and start drilling. The reason space mining isbased on player, not character skill is because you don't need any skill points to be a space miner. Like the rest of JTL, it relies on your own abilities.
............learn to use the bloodytractor beam properly
Message Edited by JakinIrali on 06-17-2005 12:38 PM
you didnt read the posts it seems.
I said, they should keep the current system. by way of that, you yeild less amounts of ore because it is less dangerous as only a few pirates spawn to fight off. Using the Y-8 or any other POB ship only, you can use a drill by "docking" with the asteroid and drilling. By way of this a larger yeild is gathered, BUT a Greater number of pirates will spawn making it more difficult. So, in essance, by mining with a drill, it would be more difficult than mining with lasers, because your defending your ship from high level, or highly concentrated attacks, making it harder to stay alive with your resources.
Message Edited by LegioEmperium on 06-18-2005 10:18 AM
Rebelcapt wrote:
This idea of less chance of pitates coming as a plus to less yeild is kinda laughable. Their nothing but little ole teir 3's and if your using a POB ship your obviously certed to have shields and armor that can take whatever they hit you with.
Also the mining laser isnt a rock only gun. it can do plenty of damage to a fighter. In my rhikarixz (sp?) i load it up with one mining laser a tractor beam and a 3k dmg blaster and i can fill my hold in 5 min. easily. when fighters show up i kill em no problem. Pirates really are a minor issue, the biggest problem currently i see is when you get like 5 asteroid chunks shooting off in all direction its really easy to loose track of them. thus lower your yeild.
Oooh, you got 3 gun slots!!!