Re: Enabling Tractor Beams & Tethered Magnets
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:25 am
Adding more variety to asteroids
Although a station will pay for raw ore tonnage at a fixed rate (dependent on variety)
Asteroids could have varying percentages of minerals (dice throw?)
If a player has sophisticated enough sensors, he may be able to determine mineral percentages as well as discover other valuable internal items.
In the event a player has the ability to mine the asteroid by himself efficiently, he could do so and sell the extracted minerals at a much higher return.
Depending on a players mining equipment and asteroid type - some asteroids may only be fractured by impacting them upon a surface.
(like seagulls dropping clams on rocks :)
Finding an appropriate place for such a tactic without friction creating atmosphere and with a solid surface, could present a challenge unless an appropo moon happens to be nearby.
Once an asteroid had been smashed open, the player could harvest any exposed minerals via his ship or delegate the job out to special robotic terrain mining drones (harvesters) that a player would launch to ferry minerals back to his ship. Once all minerals had been recovered and the drones recalled, the player could proceed to a nearby starport, selling the newly extracted minerals and any other valuable finds.
Although a station will pay for raw ore tonnage at a fixed rate (dependent on variety)
Asteroids could have varying percentages of minerals (dice throw?)
If a player has sophisticated enough sensors, he may be able to determine mineral percentages as well as discover other valuable internal items.
In the event a player has the ability to mine the asteroid by himself efficiently, he could do so and sell the extracted minerals at a much higher return.
Depending on a players mining equipment and asteroid type - some asteroids may only be fractured by impacting them upon a surface.
(like seagulls dropping clams on rocks :)
Finding an appropriate place for such a tactic without friction creating atmosphere and with a solid surface, could present a challenge unless an appropo moon happens to be nearby.
Once an asteroid had been smashed open, the player could harvest any exposed minerals via his ship or delegate the job out to special robotic terrain mining drones (harvesters) that a player would launch to ferry minerals back to his ship. Once all minerals had been recovered and the drones recalled, the player could proceed to a nearby starport, selling the newly extracted minerals and any other valuable finds.