Goonhub
11-08-2013, 06:42 AM
Make the station and mining zlevels interconnected and superglue a smaller version of the mining station to the cargo bay.
By interconnected I mean that going off the map in a certain direction from the station (how about right?)
always takes you to the mining zlevel and vice versa,but going off the zlevel in any other direction takes you to the usual zlevel roulette or whatever it is right now.
benefits:
Can't get lost as a miner. If you ever get lost in the asteroid field you'll know that you can always go left,eventually hit the station and edge your way along it until you find the cargo bay.
(i've actually gotten lost as a miner before don't make fun of me). Also add some beacons and a space lighthouse so you'll know you're going the right direction.
Miners are less secluded from the rest of the station. no miner ever goes to the main station,because you have to walk for like a minute and then wait roughly sixty years until the slow as hell mining shuttle going at mach -3 arrives. Compare that to every other job who can do a full sweep of the station in a minute,while the miners haven't even gotten there in the first place. With this idea you could quickly jetpack left,fling ores and crates at the quartermasters and jetpack back to where you were.
More teamwork between QM and miners. goes without saying. Also another idea I've had is,instead of selling them stuff for credits,make the trader dudes have random requests in exchange for fun and cool stuff.
Like for example the dank frog wants 7 erebite for a rainbow toolbox. Noone really cares about credits as it is now,but everyone loves that kind of stuff.
well thats it.
By interconnected I mean that going off the map in a certain direction from the station (how about right?)
always takes you to the mining zlevel and vice versa,but going off the zlevel in any other direction takes you to the usual zlevel roulette or whatever it is right now.
benefits:
Can't get lost as a miner. If you ever get lost in the asteroid field you'll know that you can always go left,eventually hit the station and edge your way along it until you find the cargo bay.
(i've actually gotten lost as a miner before don't make fun of me). Also add some beacons and a space lighthouse so you'll know you're going the right direction.
Miners are less secluded from the rest of the station. no miner ever goes to the main station,because you have to walk for like a minute and then wait roughly sixty years until the slow as hell mining shuttle going at mach -3 arrives. Compare that to every other job who can do a full sweep of the station in a minute,while the miners haven't even gotten there in the first place. With this idea you could quickly jetpack left,fling ores and crates at the quartermasters and jetpack back to where you were.
More teamwork between QM and miners. goes without saying. Also another idea I've had is,instead of selling them stuff for credits,make the trader dudes have random requests in exchange for fun and cool stuff.
Like for example the dank frog wants 7 erebite for a rainbow toolbox. Noone really cares about credits as it is now,but everyone loves that kind of stuff.
well thats it.
