I suggest there be a mining beam turret that can be mounted in the gunner slots of s trident. Ore can go into gunner's ship, ejecting could put it into the trident's hold if there is room. If that's too difficult just send it all to the trident's hold. Would be nice if it worked with Moths etc. too.

interesting. make it a good mining beam with low heat so people are inclined to use it.

better yet instead of low heat give it a longer range so different roids can be targeted by different "gunners"

+1 OP, pey.

+1

I asked Inc for this way back when. He had zero interest in making mining THAT safe for each miner.

FYI pey, mining separate roids may sound like a plus, but the game mechanics reward more players grouped on the same roid. there is a small heat-rate reduction per beam on the same roid, and another reduction per ship.

Personally, I would like a large (or capital class if ever...) version of the high efficiency beam. Since the trident can't offer much ore output with one beam, it could act as heat control for a group of 4x Moth Miner Mk2. Dare I say this hypothetical beam could even have zero extraction rate and a negative heat rate, so a trident pilot could not mine by themselves, but could slowly cool roids or more significantly reduce the average of a group. Of course i'm partial...

+1 to CD.

-1 CD. There's no point in having a cappie if you can't do things like that alone in it. Dare I say, a cappie should be able to do everything a fighter can.

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+1 OP

+1 to everyone.

Turret-based beams would encourage people to work together.

This is a good point. You could make the TTS a miner boat, low(er) armor, 3 turrets, and more manuevarble of the 3 types. 1000cu of cargo space, and mining turrets only (eeeeh that doesn't sound too good, but whatevs).

+1

-1 to idd, that would be a different suggestion all together, go start your own thread.

Thanks for the info CD obviously I don't spend that much time mining. Although I disagree with inc, I think being able to strip mine a sector should be a tridents strong point plus a trident fully outfitted for mining in the middle of a roid field would make a good target for pirac- I mean warranty sales.

There's no point in having a cappie if you can't do things like that alone in it. Dare I say, a cappie should be able to do everything a fighter can.

You already can mine with it: put your paltry single HD beam on it and tell me how long it takes you to fill the 600cu hold, and how many roids you boiled to fill it. I was just suggesting a loadout to be more useful to a group of miners, since there are longstanding game mechanics that support group mining.

I wasn't nay-saying the OP, so for what it's worth:

+1 to the OP

It has been suggested before, by more than myself and csgno1, and Incarnate is clearly opposed, or was, last I chatted with him about it.

Turret-based beams would encourage people to work together.

Any mining operation based on a trident is going to be a group effort. Come along on an ORE expedition sometime: You'll be happy the trident is packing weapon turrets ;)

@pey: oh God, they got to you too? NO MORE WARRANTIES!!!! I want my buckle swashed by charismatic rogues, not insurance salesmen.

I do agree with that sentiment, but on the other hand, who hasn't dreamed of wantonly murdering insurance salesmen?

+1 about dealing with insurance salesmen