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Corian Teranos
Caldari
Critical Mass Inc.
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Posted - 2009.08.20 05:00:00 -
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as a miner nothing takes the wind out of your sails when a asteroid is depleted after an entire cycle and you only get a handfull of ore for that entire load. if your strip miner is smart enough to stop harvesting when your hold is full it should be smart enough to automaticly shut down the module when the asteroid is depleted. this petition is to fix strip miners to automaticly stop their cycles when an asteroid is depleted rather than wasting time mining empty space.
(premting the smartass who will inevitable say that i should have been watching my survay scanner, in low and null sec your tank needs every spare slot you have and there is no room left for said scanner.)
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Sir Substance
Minmatar
MagiTech Alliance Inc.
MagiTech Corp
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Posted - 2009.08.20 05:14:00 -
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or, you could use an asteroid scanner and learn approximately how much of each ore your strip miner pulls in per minute, and shut it off mid-cycle yourself.
try it, it staves off the bordom.
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Corian Teranos
Caldari
Critical Mass Inc.
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Posted - 2009.08.20 05:21:00 -
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Edited by: Corian Teranos on 20/08/2009 05:21:36
 Originally by: Corian Teranos
(premting the smartass who will inevitable say that i should have been watching my survay scanner, in low and null sec your tank needs every spare slot you have and there is no room left for said scanner.)
i swear to god people read the first few lines of these posts and stop
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shady trader
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Posted - 2009.08.20 18:06:00 -
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The reason the miner does not stop is that it only asks the database at the end of the cycle how much ore is left. As more then one miner or drone or player could be mining the ore there is no way to determine how long the roid will last. The reason its only checked at the end of the cycle is to minimize the load it places on the server.
Also CCP prefer to reward people to are committing effort to an activity. If the mining lasers cut off a semi away form key board player would have the same results as one micro managing there mining. it would also make macro's easier as they would have less wasted cycles as well.
Also the calculation would be done server side so it will eat up more CPU cycles incresing lag.
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Corian Teranos
Caldari
Critical Mass Inc.
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Posted - 2009.08.23 19:39:00 -
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Edited by: Corian Teranos on 23/08/2009 19:39:29
i never thought about it that way
you win
i am dropping my suggestion please lock the thread
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.08.23 19:47:00 -
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Originally by: Corian Teranos
as a miner nothing takes the wind out of your sails when a asteroid is depleted after an entire cycle and you only get a handfull of ore for that entire load. if your strip miner is smart enough to stop harvesting when your hold is full it should be smart enough to automaticly shut down the module when the asteroid is depleted. this petition is to fix strip miners to automaticly stop their cycles when an asteroid is depleted rather than wasting time mining empty space.
(premting the smartass who will inevitable say that i should have been watching my survay scanner, in low and null sec your tank needs every spare slot you have and there is no room left for said scanner.)
It is not smart enough to notice when your hold is full. It do that check only when it tries to put all the minerals of a cycle in.
And it eject the minerals that your cargohold can't accept (in EVE reality it put them back on the asteroid, but the effect is the same, you do the full cycle, you get only what your hold can keep).
Probably it is done for ease of programming and resource management. Only 1 check at the end of the cycle.
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