Rate 3.8
Heat 0.75
Range 300
Mass 10000
Grid 125

Advanced Miner 3 required to buy or equip
to stop exploits

Queen mineing beam be crying rn. The queen mineing beam in-game already fills this role.
Rate 8.4
Heat 0.75
Range 150
Mass 10000
Grid 50
Large port
Whats wrong with this capitol only beam?

historically, Drevent tends to ask for turret-mounted mining beams; I wonder if he simply forgot to add that qualifier this time. After all, the suggested beam doesn't really compare well against the queen beam as you've identified.

In the original posting: to stop exploits
uhm.... that needs more explanation. And, if there is a real current exploit in the game, then it needs to be brought up in a support ticket. If you're saying that this will stop a potential future exploit or unbalanced function compared to a previous suggestion... please provide a link to that discussion and describe why this would be better, so we aren't all left scratching our heads in confusion.

I posted the wrong stats sorry

Rate 11.2
Heat 0.75
Range 300
Mass 100000
Grid 125

Advanced Miner 3 required to buy or equip

would be the same as 4 hd beams but only available to advanced miners
and the grid would prevent mounting any turrets

Advanced miner 3 required to equip even in M-7 as you dont want low level miners
buying one from a vet

Why not I guess?

@luxen, the "exploit" being: equipping things in m7 and on capships without licenses.. actually a feature

even at advanced 1 it would be catering to a single person in the universe

admittedly the mining badges are unrealistic as is and mining could use a buff to potentially reach those heights but a rehash of the mining badges would likely be just as useful