A large port launcher that drops a stationary mining bot that mines for 5 min before self destructing, leaving the ore floating. The mining beam on it with the same stats as the HD, manufacturable at Latos I-8 at mining 10. Two bots per launcher, must be dropped within 75m of the roid to mine it, reload cost 30,000c per bot. Mass of the launcher should be high, maybe 3000kg.

-1 Only because 1) I don't like the implementation and 2) Inc has already stated he has long term goals of mining bots for when they roll out the player owned stations.

Manufactured and a 60k reload cost for 10 whole minutes of mining? WTF are you people thinking, begging for shit that nobody in their right mind would use?

They're counting on free reloads on a Trident or Conquerable Station. Where have you been the last 5 years, Dr. Lecter?

-1

+1

I haven't been MIA so long I missed that, but counting on what's supposed to be combat content (stations) or end-game content (tridents) for reasonable functionality seems like a piss poor basis for a mining suggestion.

The idea of mining drones isn't a problem IMO, but this is (like so many things in VO) beaten half to death with a nerf bat. Why the fuck have them self-destruct? Just make them mildly annoying to build and/or expensive to buy, limit how many one can field at a go, and make them destructable. Hunting 'em will be fun, and the other 96% of the time the miners can mine to their little hearts' content.