Strip mining

[Yngen]

Ok I'll admit it, mining sucks in this game.

So I've tried to come up with an improvement to mining that would work in the FL engine.

And here it is:

1)Make a new weapon that only mining ships can equip called the strip miner.

2)Put a collection of Asteroid class stations in every mineable field (Maybe 4 or 5 per field,) and give them a name like Niobium Lump, Alien Nest, Gold Vein, Diamond Cache. Don't bother with the ice fields, its not worth it.

3)Only allow ships with the strip miner equipped to moor with these objects and have them dispense ore at a profitable rate (like fill the hold in 10 or 15 minutes.)
This would work best if it could be made that the ship stays on the outside of the object when it moors.

An alternative would be to make the strip miner a type of tractor beam that can be activated on these objects to release ore at a good rate.

Ok daydream over.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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