Server testing #13

[ryoken]

Good news all, I might dust of my Spatial for mining now. Thanks for the work!

One part I'm concerned about:

Good to hear overall, but the bolded bits are what I'm concerned about.

This doesn't really bring back Helium mining in Penn as a way for new players to get money, because the starting mining ship has almost no cargo space. Since it's not possible to mine with any other ID (and not possible without the mining lasers), you won't be able to mine Helium with any /restart other than the miner restart, so you'd have to use the Basalt, which means you spend ten seconds mining helium to go get $12000 at Erie.

Not to mention that the miner restart is hostile to liberty criminals, which means you'll have Rogues after you in that cloud...

I guess you missed this part of Cannon's post?
Mining with non-mining ship combinations and hitting with a non-mining turret is again possible although at a greatly reduced rate. Both these changes are to allow guard/escort ships to assist miners if they have no enemies to deal with - prevents players from sitting around with nothing to do during group play.

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