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Mining Beam Overdrive

Aug 24, 2018 Heini link
Overload the mining beams to increase the mining rate but also heat generation significantly.
Uses energy while in use.
Heat increases more than the mining rate.
For example: Mining Rate 2x, Heat 3x

It could look like this:
High-Density Beam
Rate: 2.8
Heat: 0.75

Now with Overdrive:
Rate: 5.6
Heat: 2.25

Energy per second: 55 (to avoid AFK roid heating)
Aug 24, 2018 Aryko link
Reminds me of EvE lol, but mining always needs love. I'm not sure if overloading should increase the heat by 3 times AND use energy, it might be realistic maybe but it would still be efficient to not overload.
Aug 24, 2018 Heini link
The 3x is just an example, it's only good when you're in a hurry or have many roids to mine. The normal way should be more efficient and used for rare ores. As for the energy, this is just a safety feature against these people that heat up roids overnight or even longer just to get it hot, it would be terrible if they could do that 3 times faster and to overload something you need a lot of energy so that's why I thought about this. I personally would prefer it to not use energy or only 50/s but then it would certainly be abused.
Aug 24, 2018 greenwall link
-1 does not make mining more enjoyable
Sep 02, 2018 scared star link
Why not dmg the ship slowly, over drive it to the point that the heat of the beam to the roid will hurt you slowly, risk vs reward question mark