Discovery 4.80 features, bugs & suggestions

[JnD]

1. May i suggest a mining mine... Mine with extremely small amout of damage with a very large blast radius to make mining a bit more worthwhile (note because mining is a teadious job i find it's better to run aquired materials to a closer base than take them to the point of best profit) and trains/transports don't have mine droppers so it would be limited for use on small freighters which have a much smaller cargo hold and won't be quite too unbalanced seeing as they can't mine 4000 units at a time.

2. I also think that trains/transports should be restricted to docking at mooring fixtures and shipping bases (with the A-D dock ports). The reason I suggest this is... With a cargohold that large, the ability to hide on any base, and the immense amout of shields/hull (with an MK7 armor upgrade and adv. champion shields) it is a very hard job to pirate them. This would make trading via trains/transport a high risk high reward job. Another reason i suggest this is i've found a perticularly cheap run, Yanagi depot -> New berlin with artifacts and engine components. The run takes a grand total of what, maybe a minute, and makes 5 million credits there and back. Also, a pirate tried to hit my train up, he didn't have enough time to take me out. So in conclusion if trains/transports were givin docking restrictions again then maybe this would create a diversity of freighters so that buying one of the smaller ones might be a viable option. I don't mean to seem like I'm bashing traders but isn't it just a little too convienient to hide from pirates in that situation and a bit too easy to make money. The original reson for the restricted docking is that very reason, and it would encourage escorts and start up more player interaction between one another.

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[AW]AWC-Toronto <- Big Bad RH cruiser
[AW]282ndSKings.Redout <-Talon
Transport IMS-Canuk <- "Target" Shipper