Spent a day using a mining ship to fill some of my buddys haulers with helium until the haulers mentioned that they were able to fill themselves just as fast using regular turrets [meaning I shouldve been a hauler myself as well if we wanted to mine the fastest].
Used the Basalt miner to mine gold in Dublin with a BMM ID to increase the drop rate, and yet the haulers were able to fill themselves more faster than I could fill them because I was using a single mining turret and they were using multiple turrets which is quicker at nabbing the rocks with.
I then read here that regular weapons should not be able to get anything at all?
:wacko:
Have settings been temporarily changed until a next update can fix them or what?
Regular turrets can get a fractional drop rate. For Helium, since it's designed for noobs, I think that everyone might get the full drop rate--not sure.
If the transports were filling themselves faster than you were, then you weren't getting the bonus. Checklist:
- Mining faction ID?
- Matching mining faction IFF (I'm guessing this is where you went wrong)?
- Mining vessel?
- Using a mining laser?