Pilot Archive
Thread: Y-8 Nightmare
I think your mistake is actually using your Y-8 for mining. It is by far the worst ship in the game, I used it solo to mine (very easy to do) but as it is so slow at turning those bandits where fun to kill (not). Although I did kill 4 Tier 4 bandits with my mining laser which was pretty funny
Once they fix the bugs in the Y-8 and increase the YPR, I would love to see it get a bonus on the asteroids, as right now not every asteroid has ore, maybe give the Y-8 double the chance of mining ore from a asteroid to promote its use and heaven forbid group game play.
Right now I mine in my Krayt or if I fancy some fun my Jedi Star Fighter, but as it only has 2 slots killing takes a bit of time
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Eventually the demand for asteroid mining will be so low that it will be profitless and useless to do.
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Not true, NPC space stations still buy asteroid resources, you'll always be able to make a profit....
...say no more........
The tractor beam to the driver's seat??? I have not tried that yet... When I fire a mining laser from the main weapon (weapon 2 I think, the one that is attached to the bridge), my capacitor doesn't register taht I'm firing.. I see the effect of the laser firing, but that's about it...
Message Edited by Ignatius_PLD on 06-13-2005 09:11 PM
Rojiin wrote:
Another thing to remember is that sometimes asteroids will quit spawning chunks. You have to completely destroy it and when it respawns it will send out chunks again, I've run into this alot in corellia, Tat, and Naboo space. Doesnt seem to happen much in the higher danger areas though.
The reason for this is that astroids have a limit to the number of chunks they can spawn at any given moment. In the above mentioned zones, the astroids are pretty close to the space boundary. So any chunks that are not picked up in time tend to float toward the boundry and become unhittable...how ever they do not get removed from the astroid counter.
Message Edited by ChrisF0001 on 06-14-2005 02:01 PM
I've about given up on it as a mining ship. I've put an Experimental Blaster in the pilot's mount, a Type 2 Mining Laser in the other two mounts, and I'm waiting for a fix.
By the way, best mining fighter for the Rebels is the X-Wing. Two Heavies in the tips and a Type 2 on the midwing with the large hold is awesome, you don't even sacrifice much combat effectiveness when the pirates jump you.
Tepo_Chuuto wrote:
All the component enhancements for shipwright crafted gear use space mined material and they can provide a pretty significant boost.SomeMost RE'd stuff is better than crafted, but you cant beat crafted for quality+custom made stats.
no, all the component upgrades for shipwright use special ground resource that only began spawning when JtL launched.
All the new Elite level parts, new ships,texture kits, and heavy ship chassisuse asteroid resource though.