Cap ships have a lot of cargo and it would be nice if they could use that to effectively mine but since they don't have many small or large ports I'm suggesting a turret version. I think Tunguska should sell them since they are a mining cooperation. They would be the same as other Mining beams but since you can undock we will have to discuss if the beam will cancel or stay active.
And of course the stats should also be discussed.

Here's my suggestion:

+600 Tunguska
0/0/0/0/8
Grid: 25
Rate: 10
Heat: 1
Range: 500m

The large port could use a specific scanner as well.

+600 Tunguska
0/0/0/0/8
Grid: 25
Range: 2000m

There is already a large port mineral scanner. It has a range of 700, grid 2. License levels are -/-/-/-/3

Related threads:
Six Port Mining Trident. 2010
Civilian Trident Rental for groups 2010
Mining beam turret 2013
Hive Queen Mining Beam 2015
There is a good quote in that thread:




Mining Turret 2018

I'm a tentative +0.5, but mining (and the VO economy) needs a change before something like this gets implemented. I think this is a VO 2.0 addition. There needs to be a reason for shielded ships to be mining ores.

Currently, people can just buy ores from latos N2. So miners are at a huge disadvantage in the VO market at the moment.

I have group mined with my capship before (the lp beam stays active when i'm undocked), but only for the novelty of it. For the most part, i can strip mine in a rag and scoop with my cap ship.

I agree that the whole mining economy needs to change but I'm afraid that 700m might not be enough for cap ships. I haven't played in a cap ship with the prototype scanner so I can't say for sure but 700m for such a big and slow ship doesn't sound like much. Even the BHM2 has an inbuilt scanner with 1000m range if I remember correctly.