Dyson orebuster 2000 series miner mods,

Or it could be a seperate line of indy tuners, replace cycle/yeild with +1 tile per tier

thats the first thing i have realised - with the new system they have enabled the possibility of AoE mining laser, with a radial falloff (under the current system it would be dumb to have something like this)

actually i was a bit disappointed of the announcement that ores will only spawn where heavy mechs will be able to reach them on alpha -> and no distinct advantage of using an argano for an extended period of time.

i say that, because even with a trial account, you get enough starting EP to mine with a Termis right off the bat - with 4 small mining laser and 4 possible tuning slots and more cargo...

but im drifting off.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ … /?pid=3731

Do oceans count as impassable terrain, because I feel an overwhelming urge to mine those yellow/orange tiles.

Well from the comments they already made, it seems like they like the idea of chasing ghost ores of single 5 cycle tiles, but both the server clean up and the AoE mining are good ideas.

Ive got a better idea: make the mining field in instances: you take a mission on terminal, you get a "this is your private instanve" teleport beacon and you can go mining there as long as you want... and next day you can do the same in a fresh new instance!

I think that the above is a very good idea, and I can't see that it would be that hard to implement, as long as it was at intervals (for example your "every 3 days") and didn't have to be a dynamic deletion.

Perhaps this should be a separate feature suggestion, since it diverges from your OP about the imbalance inthe weighting of new materials-- which I think is also a valid point.  Regarding that, I doubt that it was a case of not wanitng to make a 3rd material-- it likely just got missed in the original work-up.    It's a complicated set of relationships when they do a re-vamp like this.

That would be awesome... and terrible, but probably more on the awesome side; like 60/40. The terrible part would be the almost certainty that there is, or will be, a roaming spawn on, or coming to a geo scan location near you. But if the AI was set to mine only low yeild tiles, that would certainly fix the framentation issue.