' Wrote:The production capacity of my Basalt miner has been halved. In the time it takes to eject the twenty or so units the ship can hold I could have mined that same amount again. I'm entirely reliant on the whims and timetables and selections of haulers who generally prefer to buy ore direct from Hegemons.
Personally, I'm not happy with cargo going directly into your cargo hold. If your hold is full, could the ore just float in space where you shoot the rock? I don't see a problem with that system.
The problem with that system is that many ore packets in space seemed to generate a bit of server load - it's a performance measure. You are aware of the new feature where, if you have another ship selected, mining will fill it's hold, rather then your own? This allows small transports to effectively fill transports, it just means the transport has to be physically there (and therefor becomes a target itself, for unlawfuls, rather then hugging the nearest base until there's cargo). The Basalt however is a pain in the rear due to it's rearfiring turret, recommend using a Dacite or Mafic instead.
If you want temporary storage capacity, team up with a Hegemon and fill that using 2 miners. If you want to mine alone and generate an ore cloud to sell? Well. Too bad.
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