Goonhub
05-05-2013, 02:41 PM
well the problem with mining is there's no motivation to do anything for the station, if you're going to send any reasonable amount of base minerals it requires endless trips to harvest base minerals that you could've used to make equipment for yourself
the other main problem is the proportion of time waiting or endlessly wandering around looking for an ore type or hauling ore back or manufacturing to actually doing something is like 10:1 because you mine very quickly and then spend several minutes wandering back with your load of ore, waiting another minute or two to manufacture what you want, and then repeating the cycle until you get bored and go kill people or something i guess
tl;dr way too much user input doing nothing at all
so i guess if you had automated mining drones like digbots that moved far faster, had long-range lights on them, and could automatically load and unload ore at a set deposit point along with a very large and dense starting asteroid area (or seperate drillbots and collectionbots i dunno) you could encourage more productivity instead of encouraging people to steal the pod/suits/gloves and screw off to go die somewhere lonely repeatedly
long story short get rid of the endless wandering to get ore and the endless wandering to bring it back and manufacture something and make automated drones capable of harvesting and collecting ore it would take the pointless grind out of mining to some degree
also i would REALLY REALLY REALLY like to see some kind of ore refining system on the mining station only that refines the raw ores into the finished products we currently use with an input hopper and a conveyor to take the refined product to the manufacturing room that can be upgraded in respect to refining speed, efficiency, and hopper capacity because currently it makes no sense that you can hit a piece of rock and instantly get perfectly refined products ready for use in manufacturing delicate electronics (plus who knows what hijinks you could come up with if your assassination target accidentally wound up in the refining hopper)
the other main problem is the proportion of time waiting or endlessly wandering around looking for an ore type or hauling ore back or manufacturing to actually doing something is like 10:1 because you mine very quickly and then spend several minutes wandering back with your load of ore, waiting another minute or two to manufacture what you want, and then repeating the cycle until you get bored and go kill people or something i guess
tl;dr way too much user input doing nothing at all
so i guess if you had automated mining drones like digbots that moved far faster, had long-range lights on them, and could automatically load and unload ore at a set deposit point along with a very large and dense starting asteroid area (or seperate drillbots and collectionbots i dunno) you could encourage more productivity instead of encouraging people to steal the pod/suits/gloves and screw off to go die somewhere lonely repeatedly
long story short get rid of the endless wandering to get ore and the endless wandering to bring it back and manufacture something and make automated drones capable of harvesting and collecting ore it would take the pointless grind out of mining to some degree
also i would REALLY REALLY REALLY like to see some kind of ore refining system on the mining station only that refines the raw ores into the finished products we currently use with an input hopper and a conveyor to take the refined product to the manufacturing room that can be upgraded in respect to refining speed, efficiency, and hopper capacity because currently it makes no sense that you can hit a piece of rock and instantly get perfectly refined products ready for use in manufacturing delicate electronics (plus who knows what hijinks you could come up with if your assassination target accidentally wound up in the refining hopper)