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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.

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

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" />

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!"

we need to be able to boot miners and cons

that's the only change needed

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" />

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

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

Make then shoot He3 pellets

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.