Drone Miners

[MacThule]

So I've seen demos in-game of a few decent drone miners. Having a problem with mine though; they mine fine, but I've made 5 prototypes from scratch, 1 has terrible aim but very slowly (with less than 5% of its beams hitting) will mine a field, one refused to mine at all in fleet though it works when piloted, the other 3 ALL have the same problem. They mine roids just fine, but every time they finish one roid, they start spinning and just do that forever until issued new orders. Any insight into keeping drone miners from pulling this spinning crap?

 

[Peekie30]

Maybe move this post to General Discussion or Game Support instead of here.
But no I haven't tried fleet mining yet, I will test some in the future.

 

[MacThule]

Maybe move this post to General Discussion or Game Support instead of here.
But no I haven't tried fleet mining yet, I will test some in the future.

My bad; is the Shipyard Forum not for... shipbuilding discussions?

 

[Peekie30]

there's probably nothing wrong with the ship, just the AI flipping

 

[decurr]

One important point I noticed, a mining drone will not mine unless a storage is connected to the salvage computer.

 

[Hidden Porpoise]

I did notice, when handing control of the mothership over to the fleet, mining AI will only aim one salvager head at a time. So huge arrays don't really work.

My two beam tiny miners worked but a whole frigate with an uncentered array didn't bring enough in to be worth it.