Where do you put the pilot seat on a mining ship?

[Lonnehart]

Just curious after seeing a lot of mining ship designs. Some place them on top, often on the center or rear dorsal section of the ship. Lately I've been placing them on either the port or starboard side of the ship. I create a very basic ship then add a salvage beam section to either side. I've found having both views (on the side from the pilot seat or the camera in the center of the salvage beam array) has its advantages.

So where do you like putting your pilot seat on a mining ship?

-edit- Oops. This was supposed to go to the Shipyard. Could an Admin move this please?

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[Tamren Shade]

By pilot seat do you mean where you sit and access the core?

Depending on if it's military ship or a civilain ship, I tend to bury the pilot seat 3/4 or 1/2 way back along the Z axis from the front of the ship, relatively centered on both the X and Y access in the middle of main engineering. Usually in the floor between the Main Engineering console and the associated command chair.

I tend to rely on a fairly large number of different cameras to get the different views I'm looking for. My thoughts being, if that's where I'm sitting to runt he ship, it's best to make that spot as protected as possible. I can't save the ship if she overheats and I die a few seconds after being ejected from the core :P. I've had a few ships shot out from underneath me, but I've only died in that situation once or twice.

Most of the time I've gotten personally reduced to meat salad, I was outside the ship as an astronaut and took a hit from an anti shipping weapon from the pirates I failed to notice in time :P

 

[Lonnehart]

Yep... we space miners have to deal with our ships being shot out from under us a lot. From Freelancer to EVE Online to Galaxy on Fire 2 to THIS game... Too bad there's no way to make a profit in a tiny little mining ship (though now I'm considering making a small armored compartment with an escape ship in case I can't save my mining vessel)...

 

[Panpiper]

Too bad there's no way to make a profit in a tiny little mining ship (though now I'm considering making a small armored compartment with an escape ship in case I can't save my mining vessel)...

It's not terribly hard to make a small miner that can permacloak. Just be aware of your surroundings, that there are no pirates about when you start mining, as your cloak will go down when you fire your salvage beams.

As for where to put the core, usually in the most protected spot on the ship. That is rarely the front. You steer the ship with cameras usually, not from looking out of the core. That said it really doesn't matter much in a tiny ship. If any sort of beefed up pirate catches you with your pants down, you'll die so fast it won't matter where you put your core.

For salvaging work, I find it is best to put the camera (or for a tiny ship the core) above the center of the mining beam array. It's easier to keep it on target that way.

 

[aRottenKomquat]

I keep a radar jammer on my mining vessel. Pirates completely ignore me so it doesn't really matter where the ship core goes.

 

[KiloZulu]

I think it's totally a fashion choice. I tend to view my salvage ships as construction equipment, so I typically place the bridge (or cab) off to the side like you would see on an excavator. While I'm mining I'm going to be looking through a camera that provides a good view regardless of where the core or bridge may be.

 

[jayman38]

Next to the soft-serve dispenser. Naturally.

 

[aRottenKomquat]

Next to the soft-serve dispenser. Naturally.

 

[Nickizzy]

make a small miner that can permacloak.

Why in the world does that have a platform of what looks like standard armor? Couldn't you cloak+mine(or make it smaller if salvs decloak) or add more salvage mods without the armor?

 

[Panpiper]

Why in the world does that have a platform of what looks like standard armor? Couldn't you cloak+mine(or make it smaller if salvs decloak) or add more salvage mods without the armor?

At the time I built that, some of that armor was included in people's starting inventory. Using was indeed completely unnecessary, but I also didn't want to require a player to have to discard it. I used it to give the ship some sort of standing platform, lest it be even more bare bones.

 

[Nickizzy]

At the time I built that, some of that armor was included in people's starting inventory. Using was indeed completely unnecessary, but I also didn't want to require a player to have to discard it. I used it to give the ship some sort of standing platform, lest it be even more bare bones.

You could have used motherboards as well though, and standard armor can sell for good money.


And those cannons too. You said it was unarmed. You could add so many more salvage beams to it if you took those off...