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Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Technature - 05-05-2018
The mining borgs tools are kind of terrible. Maybe upgrading the laser to a pick so it's less shit and making bags attachable and detachable?
Also borgs still have to click the rock.
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Noah Buttes - 05-05-2018
(05-05-2018, 04:35 PM)Technature Wrote: Maybe upgrading the laser to a pick so it's less shit
Lasers are a straight upgrade to picks.
Did you mean power hammers or something?
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Technature - 05-05-2018
(05-05-2018, 05:05 PM)Noah Buttes Wrote:(05-05-2018, 04:35 PM)Technature Wrote: Maybe upgrading the laser to a pick so it's less shit
Lasers are a straight upgrade to picks.
Did you mean power hammers or something?
Are they?
I always seem to break down more with the pick, while lasers tend to not do anything...
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Noah Buttes - 05-05-2018
(05-05-2018, 05:11 PM)Technature Wrote:(05-05-2018, 05:05 PM)Noah Buttes Wrote:(05-05-2018, 04:35 PM)Technature Wrote: Maybe upgrading the laser to a pick so it's less shit
Lasers are a straight upgrade to picks.
Did you mean power hammers or something?
Are they?
I always seem to break down more with the pick, while lasers tend to not do anything...
That might be a bug since lasers are meant to be a step above a powered pick but a step below a powered power hammer.
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Lady Birb - 05-05-2018
Tech might be thinking of the fancy not-really-new-anymore-but-still-WIP materials mining tools, which operate differently than the standard mining tools, and pickaxes are objectively the best of the new tools.
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Frank_Stein - 05-05-2018
I mean, they oughta have the best tools available being machines purpose built for mining, right?
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Technature - 05-05-2018
Especially considering their tools can't be upgraded, it seems reasonable to me.
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Lady Birb - 05-05-2018
I say just give them a power hammer that takes power from their internal cell. And maybe one of those pod plasma cutter things.
RE: Make being a mining borg suck a bit less. - Kovirii - 08-14-2018
Allowing borgs to be upgraded makes sense.