- The eastern asteroid ( such as it is has no minerals worth mining
- Minerals such as Plasma, Uranium, and Silver are now more rare than diamonds ever were in old mining (Even on the west asteroid). Forget about getting enough for R&D to make X-Ray lasers
- The introduction of "mining scanners": Basically you cannot see minerals any more, you have to click the scanner every five seconds
- The introduction of mining scanners, the nerf of minerals, and no meson scanners has ruined the labor camp.
- Detainees (people put in the labor camp) will sometimes go through a wall and ruin the labor camps oxygen supply
- Detainees can't see what minerals there are
- Ripleys have become useless
- There's never enough minerals for robotics
Anyways that's just the tip of the iceberg so far as my complaints go with new mining.
Here's my thoughts on how we can improve it without annoying New mining players too much
- Add artifacts to new mining due to the increased danger level
- Bring back old mesons, do away with mining scanners.
- Introduce equal amounts of minerals in old mining areas (east) and new mining (west) asteroid areas and the prison areas. Allow each group their own play-style. This will also fix the labor camp problem of not having enough minerals.
- Re-introduce Veins in both mining areas
Those suggestions, while limited in scope will help both "factions" of old and new mining join their houses, perhaps in marriage. It will also make science and other officers very happy (in my opinion). Thoughts? Suggestions?
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OOC: Laharl Montgommery: An idea: be able to use Mob drops as materials for science.
OOC: Laharl Montgommery: Goliath Plates could use the researching, basilisc does that (imagine it hit drops a basilisc eye)
OOC: Laharl Montgommery: Something else that could make mining better is an expanded construction system.
OOC: Laharl Montgommery: AKA stuff you can actually build from using the materials.
* IE you could be able to build things using the parts and peices of mobs. For example a Goliath plate space suit or armor. Or perhaps a balisk armor or lazer beam. Something to that effect. In addition allow R&D to use parts for research...
Shadow made a good suggestion to put R&D into Mining. This would be pretty awesome.
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