Goonhub
05-20-2013, 08:25 PM
This is something of a late bump, but having played a bit of mining recently, working with the extractors is like pulling teeth. First, you need to find yourself a super dense deposit of mineral you want, and if you were smart enough to bring the extractor with you(no one is), set it up and let it chug away. If you didn't you get to fly back to the outpost, grab it, and drag it all the way back. If you bothered with the teleporter upgrade, at least your troubles stop here. Otherwise, you eventually have to go back and grab a crate to load into it(though I guess you could fly one there with a pod now. Eh), then send it to wherever with a cargo transporter.
How hard would it be to make ore extractors deployable, like the briefcase computer? They have a mode where they can be held in your hand, then you click on a tile to deploy them there, and click again to interact with it. Then when you want to pack it up and move it somewhere else, you can right click it to choose a pack-up option to turn it back into its pick-upable state? Maybe even do the same thing to the mineral accumulator.
How hard would it be to make ore extractors deployable, like the briefcase computer? They have a mode where they can be held in your hand, then you click on a tile to deploy them there, and click again to interact with it. Then when you want to pack it up and move it somewhere else, you can right click it to choose a pack-up option to turn it back into its pick-upable state? Maybe even do the same thing to the mineral accumulator.