Coop Mining, very cool.
- Thread starter Zookajoe
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Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
I don't think they should allow mining coops. The chickens need them and they're really harmless. Why can't you go mine your own busini. . .
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Haha, awesome! @Black Sunder and a few of us were theorycrafting this exact thing when the Prospector went on sale back in 2016. Sweet!
Hahaha, it's all good Reaper, my mind has flown the coop as well. ;)
So, I guess they were right when they said the Orion will have the most powerful gun in the verse.
Short range and high time-to-kill. Might be powerful but slooooooow.
EDIT - As mining lasers bust rocks by pushing energy into them, wouldn't it be perverse if using a mining laser on a ship made its shields STRONGER!
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Okay, mining in the 3.2 PU and found a rock that is 30% titanium, even at 5 meter range, cannot heat it up past 10% with laser on full.
Takeiteasy
Admiral
Hah! You must live on planet cuckoo that can't possibly be a thing.
Until I came up with it that is!
I'm a genius you see who can create such amazing ships which have more than one mining laser... as I just did.
I call it "The double mining laser ship".
SullyQuindarius
Admiral
Co-Op mining. Does that extend to a swarm of Prospectors descending on a capital ship?
Mining update:
To mine a 3,232 mass rock, that consists of 8% diamond and 23% Quartz, and with a resistance of .73 and instability of .99, I had to have my laser actually touching the rock at 100% power to get it to a point of fracture. Got away with it once, but on the second rock, with 70% full bags, it blew up and totally destroyed my ship. *sniff* It would have been my best haul yet....
Yup, two Prospectors would have made it easier and safer. That overcharge hits at that close of a range and you are toast.
To mine a 3,232 mass rock, that consists of 8% diamond and 23% Quartz, and with a resistance of .73 and instability of .99, I had to have my laser actually touching the rock at 100% power to get it to a point of fracture. Got away with it once, but on the second rock, with 70% full bags, it blew up and totally destroyed my ship. *sniff* It would have been my best haul yet....
Yup, two Prospectors would have made it easier and safer. That overcharge hits at that close of a range and you are toast.
The more prospectors you use on a rock the more resolution (and therefore safety) you get on the power band. Brilliant way of making mining more coop even with 1 man ships!