reinvigorate mining

[Nnystyxx]

One if the best things I've seen in another codebase was a machine you dumped your ores into, giving the miners reward points to spend on gear.

But because of this centralised drop off point, it also meant that departments could be notified when mining found new materials.

I don't know if the direct reward thing is something we want but going back to the automated refining unit idea, having a PDA mailbot that let relevant departments know a specific material has been discovered would be a tremendous boon.

That's in TGcode at the very least. You go mine in the scary lava world, come back, dump off your shit for points, buy stuff and either go back to the lava world or wander the station with your cool new anime glasse