Secondary Mining Station

[XDTM]

From the perspective of an R&D player miners seem to die way too often; for whatever reason, like the infamous watcher + goliath, ash walkers, a chasm or lava, or because they tried to solo a boss with roundstart equipment.
My idea was to set a secondary landing zone for the mining shuttle in a more peaceful section of lavaland, with less or no spawns: of course, to balance this, there would be no special loot/ruins. This would:
-Get new miners a location to practice in a somewhat safer zone until they get better equipment
-Split miners so if one is an antag the other two don't necessarily die
-Give people who job-change to mining an area to mine in without needing the specialized equipment, if the original miners are unavailable
-Be a way to still mine if the first base is compromised (ashdrake, ash walkers, etc)

Please, i'm tired of doing RnD several rounds in a row and never seeing a miner.

[AnonymousNow]

Sounds much like our old system, where going North-East from the mining station would yield a safer, less valuable haul, whereas North-West was full of goodies and monsters.

[DemonFiren]

Run asteroid parallel to lavaland when?

[Zilenan91]

Scientists should not be able to go mine their own minerals without going through mining. We shouldn't be rewarding people who just wordlessly go get a bunch of stuff and then print a million guns and kill everything and end the round.

[Super Aggro Crag]

Ad some small asteroids On da station z level with small ores in em. That way once they're mined out you can connect them with catwalks and make them airtight and force lizards to live in the asteroids

[Davidchan]

Make Lavaland the gateway mission it was always meant to be and put the SPACE back in SPACE mining.

[D&B]

I mean dragging an ore crate and strapping an oxy tank in your back isn't that hard. You don't need more items than a proto and an ore satchel, and that fits in pocket.

Just tell sec to let you use the gulag if Mining Station got Burned/Invaded/Judged/Gored.

[DemonFiren]

Make Lavaland the gateway mission it was always meant to be and put the SPACE back in SPACE mining.

Make it so.

Three Ash Drakes crawling through the gateway when?