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It's nice to have fleet miners back to working at least somewhat decently again. Very glad of it - much carpal tunnel syndrome shall be avoided. Couple items for thought and discussion along with suggestions:
Aim & Fire
They still love to aim at single blocks on the edge of the asteroid and work their way inward, pausing between beam cycles. This makes them less efficient than they could be.
Unless inefficiency is the intended trade-off for automated mining, I think it could be improved a bit by having them aim at a block as near the asteroid's center of mass as possible, so that there would be more opportunity for surrounding salvage outputs to hit other blocks at random, resulting in a somewhat faster mining process. Getting drones to occasionally hold beam through a duration of 2 or 3 cycles in a row would go a ways towards this as well.
Letting Go of The Past
Also, fleet miners are back to the behavior of mining out a sector and then being unable to execute a mining command unless I exit to MM and resume play. Clearly this is not intended behavior. I wonder if it would be possible to force a dump of their mining data once they determine that a sector has no asteroids, so that they can be fresh to execute a new mining order.
Aim & Fire
They still love to aim at single blocks on the edge of the asteroid and work their way inward, pausing between beam cycles. This makes them less efficient than they could be.
Unless inefficiency is the intended trade-off for automated mining, I think it could be improved a bit by having them aim at a block as near the asteroid's center of mass as possible, so that there would be more opportunity for surrounding salvage outputs to hit other blocks at random, resulting in a somewhat faster mining process. Getting drones to occasionally hold beam through a duration of 2 or 3 cycles in a row would go a ways towards this as well.
Letting Go of The Past
Also, fleet miners are back to the behavior of mining out a sector and then being unable to execute a mining command unless I exit to MM and resume play. Clearly this is not intended behavior. I wonder if it would be possible to force a dump of their mining data once they determine that a sector has no asteroids, so that they can be fresh to execute a new mining order.
