Topic: Liquid mining

DEV Zoom wrote:

There is a change for mining liquid minerals that's not in the patch notes, that should still allow you to deplete a liquid field from one point (most of the time, depends also on the shape of the field), but it a different way than before.

However, we're getting some reports that it may not exactly work like we intended, so we're still doing more testing on that.

Now there is a fixed version out on the test server so you can try how it is supposed to be.
It always takes the furthest tile of the field from the point of mining and works its way inwards.

And by the way the reason for this change was that the old way was very inefficient and affected server performance.

Re: Liquid mining

Why do we need to test this?

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So it doesn't take you by surprise when it gets live I guess.

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define "field"

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The mineral node as a whole, which you get when a new one spawns.

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Re: Liquid mining

so, basicly, it wont matter where you will begin mining, you will be able to deplete the hole field in one go - no matter how "noisy" the scan was.

but two mining mechs starting at different ends will cut the connection of each other in a short time

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Re: Liquid mining

Annihilator wrote:

so, basicly, it wont matter where you will begin mining, you will be able to deplete the hole field in one go - no matter how "noisy" the scan was.

but two mining mechs starting at different ends will cut the connection of each other in a short time

I haven't tried the latter, but in theory yes.

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when will this hit the live server?

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As soon as possible.

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pls clear out the existing liquid fields and spawn new ones ...

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Why?

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because some ppl fragmented the existing ones quite well. or does the new system not care if tiles of a field are connected?

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Zortarg wrote:

or does the new system not care if tiles of a field are connected?

No, it will suck the whole thing out regardless.

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no problem then

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It's out on the live server.

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Yes... time to use the new feature to play with AFK sequers....

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DEV Zoom wrote:

As if you couldn't before smile

I have no idea what your talking about! big_smile

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