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Uber mining beam?

Mar 06, 2005 Grzywacz link
As I was flying peacefully in Pherona doing my prospecting missions, I suddenly noticed an insanely long mining beam spanning through the sector. I followed it out of curiosity and found... look at screenshots here:

http://stealth.math.uni.lodz.pl/~grzywacz/vo/bugzor/

The question is: what levels and standing do I need to get it? :D
Mar 06, 2005 CrippledPidgeon link
0/0/0/0/20 an you need 2000 standing with Tungska.
Mar 06, 2005 macguy link
Very cool bug. Maybe the bots beams dont have the same limits? And this bot just happened to end up floating away. Either way, nice shots
Mar 06, 2005 Hyperion VI link
i hear the ApuTech's are hung like horses
Mar 07, 2005 Fnugget link
Apu's don't have beams.
Anyway, a while ago there were "left over" beams from bots. That apparently was fixed, but there's also the desync bug that results from packet loss/filtering or something, but that shouldn't happen to a bot.
If there was such a beam available, people would be using it. Since they aren't....
Mar 07, 2005 Grzywacz link
It was supposed to be a joke, you know? ;-)