Miner idea

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:32 pm

As soon as you have a piloted mining ship that can yield some advantage, you will need to have pilots in those ships every game. If it only replaces an AI-drone rather than being on its own count or unlimited, it might work but in general I'm not a fan.

For scaling games - there's no reason we couldn't have the drone-count as a setting in game options. The server can be set to allow any arbitrary number of drones, it just defaults to 4 and that seems to be a good number.

Jonan · Post by **Jonan** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:20 pm

I repeat and emphasize that I only meant this as a way to circumvent silly AI when necessary.

Post by **Raveen** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:47 pm

I think you just want all commanders to be able to micro manage their miners like Jimmy does. I'd like that too /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Shizoku · Post by **Shizoku** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:50 pm

The miner gun should be able to steal money from players as well as rocks.

"Dont pk their comm! We have a miner coming after him!"

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:50 pm

we need to be able to boot miners and cons

that's the only change needed

Post by **FreeBeer** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:52 am

stealth miners... sneak into enemy sectors and mine there. Cloak is off when mining. /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

Lykourgos · Post by **Lykourgos** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:43 pm

I heard an apocryphal story from someone that there were turreted miners in Beta. Very briefly.

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:48 pm

Turreted miners could be balanceable. There has to be some combination of AC, mini-AC, and/or ammo capacity that will work.

The biggest problem is newbies getting stranded who don't know about ctrl+shift+DDD

Jonan · Post by **Jonan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:10 pm

Make then shoot He3 pellets

Lykourgos · Post by **Lykourgos** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:33 pm

I don't think so, Ada- scouts need to be able to harass miners, and they couldn't if miners had even mini-acs with extreme ammo limitations.