Pilot Archive
Thread: Y-8 Still Unable to Mine
I too have always had this problem. My Y-8 cannot mine. At all. I've re-deeded it, I've built different mining lasers and installed them, I've run weapon overload programs, I've had the throttle up, I've avoided using droid programs, I've avoided using /examine. It's not the asteroids, because I've seen other players successfully mining them at the same time that I was failing to do so. It's not latency either, because I can mine just fine in a B-Wing.
I had some vague hope that with this 'addition of turrets' thing they might have sneaked in a fix to this actual bug as well... But no. Instead, they blacked out the windows...
also if you put the Minning laser in the Pilot conrorled gun and a mark 3 minning laser in one of the forward facing turrets you can mine effectively with only 1 other person in your ship manning that turret.
Follow the same procedure as minning solo, follow the asteroid and get your tractor beam toggled on and pointed at the middle of it, then have the gunner blow it up. Most the peices should go into your cargo hold directly.
RagNoRock5x wrote:
actualy player made Y-8 cargo holds can get upwards to 40k storage i belive, atleast 35k
I made one last night, 47k capacity. I don't think I'll ever fill it, lol.
I'm having precisely the same problem that Emack,ScottyK, and the few others are reporting. Been this way ever since ROTW came out. The only circumstances when the lasers actually do damage is when the Y-8 is travelling at very fast speeds. And even that is wildly inconsistent.
So yes, there is most definitely a problem. An uncommon problem...but a problem nonetheless, it definitely is irritating.As ScottyK is reporting that it's a character-code issue, and replacement Y-8's don't help, that doesn't leave us any options or workarounds.
I'll submit another bug ticket(this wil be the 4th one for this issue)
Think our correspondent could be so kind as to add this to the "Known Issues" list and bump up the priority?
yeah I've also had that problem since ROTW went live. but now I've got a new problem in the Y-8 with the latest publish: when standing up away from any station and when sitting in the pilot's station the bridge viewports are pitch black and I cant see anything outside the ship save for the blue target recticles on other ships, stations and asteroids. I can see everythign just fine from any other station (operations and turrets) but standing up and wandering on the bridge or piloting the ship I cant see anything. tried everything from redeeding to a full client scan and I even updated my video card drivers and nothing works.
anyone else have this problem too?
Which weapon slots are these? I would like to try it, I'm having the same problem reported here. Brand new decked out Y-8 and no way to mine.
RagNoRock5x wrote:
actualy player made Y-8 cargo holds can get upwards to 40k storage i belive, atleast 35k
also if you put the Minning laser in the Pilot conrorled gun and a mark 3 minning laser in one of the forward facing turrets you can mine effectively with only 1 other person in your ship manning that turret.
Follow the same procedure as minning solo, follow the asteroid and get your tractor beam toggled on and pointed at the middle of it, then have the gunner blow it up. Most the peices should go into your cargo hold directly.
Message Edited by dark-rage-ks on 10-23-2005 11:34 AM