Xenon 3600 drone ships - To be used as pirates or other NPCs

    Xenon 3600 drone ships - To be used as pirates or other NPCs v1

    these are mean! - cheers.
    Can you outfit these with mining lazers instead and they'll be just as efficient?
    DeepspaceMechanic
    DeepspaceMechanic
    Unfortunately no, that isn't really possible with this ship. The main problem is the shape. Because mining systems work efficiently when you have a lot of separate beams hitting a large number of blocks at once. For this the best is to use a ship with a very large front surface.

    Basically you need a big enough flat space at a ship's front to build a chessboard-like setup of mining lasers, the bigger, the better. But this ship's design isn't optimal for that. Maybe if you extend the front laterally. - Here's a link to a basic mining ship of an optimal design:

    https://starmadedock.net/content/asteroid-scavenger.6519/
    new swarm for my fleet
    DeepspaceMechanic
    DeepspaceMechanic
    Thanks for the 5 stars, I'm glad to know that these ships will actually fulfill a purpose, in your fleet too :)
    I like these, will make for a nice addition.
    DeepspaceMechanic
    DeepspaceMechanic
    I'm glad you like it, just be careful if you intend to make them pirate-usable ships in your universe, because I battle-tested them, and they turned out to be a little too powerful (ten of them took down a battlecruiser of mine in a few minutes) :D