This is the best idea ever.I'd love to be one of them things:D
Also,it should have rocking scanners.
*Attention all units,this is Miner 22-13D1.We are picking up unknown fighters on our long range scanners.*
*Roger that Miner 22-13D1,this is patrol Delta 5.We've also got some unknown signatures on our radars.Intercept mode initiated.*
*Understood,patrol Delta 5.We are dispatching a fighter wing to assist you.Good luck!*
thats the spirit i am talking about...RP possibiliotes are great....so far best support reply i got...thank you....
Doom, the idea is awesome...only I don't think it will work simply b/c mining isn't very profitable. It would take HOURS to mine enough to fill 3 trains.
Unless there was some update that I am totally unaware of, I really do not want to be the guy mining.
I dunno if someone else has mentioned this, but...
If this behemoth of a ship is too large to go into trade lanes... won't it be impossible to enter asteroid fields? I mean, back in the day, when I was in a train, trying to get to Gran Canaria proved nigh impossible. While the device you've suggested sounds amazing, and it does, do not get me wrong, it seems to be a little bit of a paradox.
If you can asuage my fears, or if someone has already said this, please lemme know.
If I'm repeating someone else, then let me just say, "Oops!"
Thanks!
-Harley
The thing is...
you didn't repeat anyone. And that is why it's so scary.
*Whacks himself in the head.* Why didn't I think of that!?
Hmm. Sounds like a semi-mobile space station...
You know, in addition to being able to do a bit of mining (though the whole 'might be too big to actually fit into an asteroid field, let alone the utter -disaster- that would take place if something collided with it, forcing a ten minute re-alignment might need to be addressed) this thing would be an epic go-between between traders and miners.
The thing doesn't need to be the only mining vessel. You could have a team out in the field, gathering materials, dropping them off at the base, whilst traders come on by and pick up the loads for delivery.
Get the right team together, you could have a pretty smooth operation.
Just a thought.
-DL
(Not to make the darn thing invincible, but give it a ton of bots/bats and you could have one heck of a mobile repair base for those crazy mining ships as well.)
Personally I can'T see much interest into rp a miner lol
of course, something that big is pretty much useless for mining... to go in asteroid field, you need something much smaller.
There is a miner anyway, which has probably the most beautiful shapes of the utilitarian ships in my taste.
Maybe it could mine on the edge of asteroid fields.
But IN asteroid field, a ship of that size? Hardly.
Unless it is capable of destroying all rocks in it's way (in RP).
Anyway, whoever says it is a moneymaker isn't actually right.
You need like 30 min (at best) to harvest 10k of cargo.
And if you have help, of like 2 more people, you can do it in 10 minutes.
Then, 1 more hour to move that thing to a place where those commodities are expensive.
Trading/Smuggling is much more profitable, so moneymaking wouldn't be a problem with this ship.
It would be slow, but it would be RP.
But, i still can't imagine a big ship coming in the Asteroid field to mine.
It would be frustrating, at least, for it's users.
I would, on another note, make it completely defenseless.
0 Guns.
Maybe a Cruiser shield, so 1 fighter can't really hijack it.
Enough hull to survive for some time.
So, in these conditions, it would need an escort.
And ship of that size and that expensive (in RP) would always have escort around.
At least that's how i see it.
hmmm...ask one one with battleship how they move around...I myself had spyglass few versions ago...Omega 5...maybe tough but possible...
you should know that in asteroids shape of the ship is everything...
but naturally i will make few tests of my own to see how this works...so far it is only idea...