Player controlled miners?

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:28 am

What Girly said.

In addition - Do you really want to pilot a miner and sit on a rock for much of the game....

Really? You Sure?

raingriffin · Post by **raingriffin** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:26 am

sometimes you just get in a ship to look at a miner sit on a rock for the whole game... ain't very different...

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:45 pm

Nah, when I D miners I try to avoid looking at them directly, since forward scan range is longer than rear scan range (I never *quite* understood that), so I try to keep my forward sensors pointed at... not solid rock. >_< Usually the direction I expect something to come from, like an aleph leading to the enemy sectors or something.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:48 pm

Shizoku wrote:QUOTE (Shizoku @ Aug 9 2009, 04:48 AM) If I have time I'll pm you my list of stock responses to common threads. That one is in it.

actually just put it onto the wiki

jpomailo2 · Post by **jpomailo2** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:39 am

Shizoku wrote:QUOTE (Shizoku @ Aug 8 2009, 07:48 PM) If I have time I'll pm you my list of stock responses to common threads. That one is in it.

I might need one of those to.

juckto · Post by **juckto** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:51 am

Also on the wiki:

Why we don't have a squad called @Merc
How bases with turrets are so cool they don't even exist
The inadvisability of creating a spectator team
and which is better? Mouse or joystick?

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:08 am

We need a wiki page on why squirrels pwn crows.

finnbryant · Post by **finnbryant** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:45 pm

The original devs thought about this, then they realised that there is no point in a game in which a major factor of winning is doing boring stuff.

Basically, you should be rewarded for doing complex dificult fun things, not boring repetative dull things.

djrbk · Post by **djrbk** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:51 pm

The only case where I think this could be momentarily fun is mining in a sector controlled by somebody else while you have mini3 ints up, so long as you could type "LOLOLOLOL" in all chat to your opponents.

Somewhat similar to riding freighters without having any use for the towers.

SpaceJunk · Post by **SpaceJunk** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:23 pm

In a relative sense, using seismics to destroy He3 rocks in enemy sectors achieves a similar effect (producing a positive delta of cash).