mining drones

when i try to use mining drones the just sit there. i give the fleet order 'mine this sector' and the flip around and point at the asteroids but do not move. when i use 'carrier recall' they again flip around and point at their designated pickup point but do not move. even their thruster plumes...

It is of little surprise that Aome Salvage & Industries (ASI) develop a variety of salvage systems. The Micro Fleet Mining System has taken the Micro Scavenger and converted it into a small carrier for two compact mining drones. The mining drones, while small, are designed to be as efficient as...

The Gmodism Industries Shipyard Proudly Brings you: GHI Mining Drone The Mining Drone is a small vessel that is optimized for mining asteroids in group, collect the materials by hand from the accessible chest or set them up to dock to a carrier that unloads the cargo. They also feature a laser...

I am trying to create a small drone AI miner and have been having trouble. Here are the components: ship core salvage computer (appears in the hotlist) (connected to cannons and storage) salvage cannon (connected with salvage computer) storage and cargo space connected) faction module (to add...

Request: Reward design skills and build efficiency, not raw size. Currently: Generally speaking, the larger a ships mining array, the faster a player collects resources. Suggested Method: When mining, no consideration is apparently given to how "mining lasers" affect the entity itself. For...

I have to say that if nothing else this helped me to build better ships. So here are the Shole, a Faction whose ships were designed to resemble space traveling Organic Creatures. (Space Fish) They travel around mining and trading from their mobile stations (Which would be too big for this...

Following on from Sit and Spin Mining Drone? and not wishing to further hijack the thread I have carried out some basic tests on three variations of my small mining drone. All three are small 5x5x5 ships and consist of the same power, thrust, storage, cargo space and a rail docker. None have...