Deviana Sevidon
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Panta-Rhei
Phoenix Allianz
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Posted - 2008.01.28 13:23:00 -
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Some ideas:
I do not think that a super-fast mining ship should be needed to catch a Comet. Every celestial object moves with some speed, even the planets and moons. For technical reasons, these objects are static in their position and a system for different static positions could be used to simulate a moving comet and make it even mineable.
A Comet is scanned and a Mining ship moves there to begin with the Mining ops. The comet only spawns when it is scanned out and despawns, as soon as the last ship leaves the grid, the comet despawns. If another miner wants to find the comet he needs to scan again, only to find it into a grid that is a few thousand kilometers away from the grid, the comet had been before. Also the comets possible positions move along an elliptical course that will give experienced miners a chance to predict the most likely positions, of the comet in advanced, making it easier to find again.
Super large Asteroids, that can be found in Exploration sites in Lowaec and 0.0. Create Asteroids the size of a small moon but when you want to mine them, there is a problem. The super-size roids, have a hard shell of useless materials, that cannot being mined with normal Mining Lasers. But they have a dense core of very valuable materials. To get to the core of the super roid, should be several ways.
- Blow up the Asteroid. Yes, assemble Gang of Battleships or something else with weapons and fire on the damn thing, until the shell *****s. Afterwards, valuable chunks of materials, can be extracted with normal Mining Lasers. But doing so is risky. Using weapons on the Asteroid, might also open up pockets of volatile Gas, that damages ships or even pollutes the whole area, so it is impossible to mine the core material without a strong tank.
- Set up a Mining Base. Like a small POS but without shields, or weapons and everything else you expect from a POS. The Mining Base extracts ore from the Roid, but is defenseless, takes possibly days to do the job and can be attacked or destroyed by pirates who find these roids. But this is still the slow and relative save approach, compared to the above method
- There can be also combinations of these things. For example you might find the Asteroid, but it is already occupied by a Serpentis Mining OP, so to get to the Ore you will have to drive the NPC off.
- There could be other things to be found inside the Asteroid. The core turns out, not to be of valuable materials, but rather a giant rogue drone, that was constructed inside the roid and breaks free when the super roid is opened. Or instead of ore, your miners find inside the Asteroid a cache of Ancient Artifacts of Yan Yung or, Talocan or Sleeper Origin.
Sorry for the wall of text.
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