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Thread: Fastest way to mine space resources?

Mahnal
Sun May 22, 2005 11:33 pm
#1
Using a tractor beam and mining laster on a starfighter works pretty good, but the cargohold is so small, it fills up, and I have to land too often....


Using the Y-8 on the other hand seems good too, but I think it would be better to have multiple people all with mining lasers. The tractor beam is very hard to use in a turret or anyway on the y-8 as best I can tell.


Thoughts?



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Peace_Keeper
Wed May 25, 2005 5:09 am
#2

Get a Kryatt Gunship. Load up the mining laser on the nose below the pilot. One tractor beam above the cockpit and one out on the wings. You will fill up your large cargo bay in less than 5 minutes easily.


Another idea is to take your idea and put it to work. Have a Y-8 with nothing but tractor beams in all 3 weapon areas. Have a friend with a mining laser pound the Large asteroid. When a piece breaks off have him hit ti 3-4 times to break it up. Then go nuts with the Y-8 collecting. By the time you are done the fighter should already have another large piece broken off and prepping it for you.





Message Edited by Peace_Keeper on 05-25-2005 03:11 AM



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Drakkosith
Wed May 25, 2005 6:08 am
#3

I seem to have more luck just blasting instead of using a tractor beam, I load up my Rhihkrix (I know it's wrong,I can never spell it /ROFL) and blast away with 3 mining lasers. only takes about 2 hits to break offa piece, and about that again to break it inot chunks which you actually get most of them on the bearkup shot since there a 3 lasers.


Best part is they are actually pretty effective weapons if the asteroid bandits show up, I was shocked when I took out 3 waves of 2 tier4 bandits in KSE Firespray, LOL.





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SpacePunk
Wed May 25, 2005 7:08 pm
#4

I use a set of macros to mine with. This works for fighter mining.



targetasteroid:


/target Acid Asteroid; <--- this needs to be changed to the asteroid you are mining


/pause 1;


/follow;






phase1: <--- all macro names are arbitrary


/target Asteroid Chunk;

/pause 1;

/follow;




tractor:


/ship weaponGroup toggleTractor;





when you blow a large chunk off use phase1 to follow and shoot it up. when it breaks up hit tractor, and hit phase1 again to follow the nearest small chunk. repeat unitll all chunks have been tractored in. rinse and repeat as necessary. Works great.

Message Edited by SpacePunk on 05-25-2005 08:16 PM



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Mickos
Thu May 26, 2005 4:25 am
#5
You'll find it works even better if you reduce your pauses to .25 or .5



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EnFERn0
Thu May 26, 2005 10:48 am
#6
I use a Rix with:

1 1550 cargohold.
1 large mining laser
1 Tractorbeam
1 Lvl10 Cannon.

If I get attacked, they get vaporized.



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EnFERn0
Thu May 26, 2005 2:23 pm
#7
I made a large Y-8 Cargo hold. Can take 38k+ resources.
Would take me years to fill that up, considering how inefficient the Y-8 is.



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sumner
Fri May 27, 2005 12:31 am
#8
I use a TIE Bomber with the reward mining items in it, fighting with the one measly mining laser is a bit rough, but the mark V shields and CS3 keep me alive =) Last night I crafted a new cargo hold that was just over 1500, and I thought I saw in teh patch notes that SW was getting more mining schematics, so maybe we can make bigger/better stuff now =)


I read a post here somewhere about a guy who put his mining laser in spot 3 of the Y-8 and the tractor beam in one of the turrets, then used a / command to turn on the tractor beam. Seems like that would enable one person mining with the Y-8 but targeting might be a pain. having a 5K+ hold would be real nice though!




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casho
Fri May 27, 2005 7:07 am
#9
I can filla 1550 hold in my JSF in fifteen minutes just blowing things apart. Using two 1600max mining lasers, seems to work well even against tier 5 asteroid bandits, never have any trouble.



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