Tremont Mining Fleet - Printable Version

"With Liberty's primary ore resources exhausted following her initial expansion the nation became a consumption and manufacturing state, providing only boron from the flats of Pittsburgh as a material export.

However, a survey of the Pennsylvania system following its absorption revealed dense pockets of platinum ore within the orbit of the remote gas giant Tremont. While it remains a matter of scholarly speculation as to how such a heavy element found its way into stable orbit around the world, DSE wasted little time in re-establishing a space mining fleet to lay claim to and exploit the resources.

Platinum is current in high demand by both Ageira for the manufacture of technology and by Bretonia for use in their war efforts, usually purchased in shipping stations in New London for later dispersal."

I will keep this simple and straight-forward until it merits becoming complicated and bent.

If you would like to participate in mining Platinum in Pennsylvania and keeping your profits high while you do so, sign up here. Mining is a group exercise, you need to work with others in order to keep it truly profitable. This continuous event will work in that capacity, allowing miners to get together with other miners and transports to make some credits.

However, we are taking it a step further. With the arrival of a DSE Barge on the scene, we will focus the mining operation and largely eliminate the miner/transport ratio balancing. Miners will fill up the barge, transports will empty the barge, in no particularly necessary order. Everyone gets paid.

You will not have to join DSE to participate, even though it might make your life easier if you plan on spending time mining Platinum. You may come in whatever ships you like with whatever affiliation you like -- within reason, naturally.

We welcome pirates and terrorists too.

However, make sure you are aware that as this will be a continuous event run by the official DSE faction, we will moderate all participation to keep it enjoyable to as many people as we possibly can. If you completely choke operations with a pirating group, you would not be welcome and will be asked -- or forced, if necessary -- to leave. If, on the other hand, you pirate reasonably, milking the operation perhaps by pirating leaving transports or isolated miners, we will not have a problem. For terrorists, be a little more creative than physically terrorizing participants to death. If that's not possible for you, you will likely not be welcome either.

If you would like a shot at destroying the Barge, I would like to request that you contact me so we can arrange a special event for it. The game harshly limits in-universe realistic possibilities, and I feel that the best way to ensure that results are reasonable and satisfactory to all parties is to plan it as players before letting our character loose. It's not an excuse to give DSE a chance to mount an indomitable defence, it's to give both you and us an opportunity to make the encounter as fun as possible. If all you are after is a blue message, a screenshot or five, and a thread in Flood, we will use the rights and powers bestowed upon us to make it clear that such sentiment is absolutely unwanted.

The financial details are yet to be hammered out, they will be developed as this event progresses. We will test circumstances and costs and times and ships and so on. There is a basic idea and we will use it for the time being. Remember that the goal is to have everyone profit, so whatever the system works out as you will make money. If you don't, please complain in a calm voice and we'll rethink.

Let me start out with the most obvious piece of help -- obvious enough that I forgot to include it when I first wrote this -- and most likely exactly what you're after! Here is the Hegemon-endorsed Mining Ship set-up:

DU57-Y "Hegemon" Class Mining Ship
Deep Space Engineering ID
Deep Space Engineering IFF/affiliation
2 M4-TT Transport Mining Turrets in the first two turret slots
Rest optional, ice-cream obligatory

Set up your first weapon group with all guns activated, your second weapon group with your combat turrets activated, and your third weapon group with your mining turrets activated.

When you mine: activate your mining turrets, go into cockpit view, and engage mouse movement. Peel your eyes as you turn your stationary mining ship around, blasting whatever rocks you see.

Mineral targeting systems can be calibrating by adjusting Performance settings in your Options menu. Experiment with that yourself as you wish.

If you have suggestions for more suggestions, let me know!