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- May 16, 2016
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I made some drones yesterday that mined the asteroid field before half of them burned in the sun.
Today I made improvements, and the new drones will not mine. :/ This would be less frustrating if it never worked in the first place.
Yesterday, I discovered that the salvage units on my dead drones were accidentally not connected to storage. Oops! I connected the storage, and they came to life! Watching those drones work felt awesome!
The new drones are bigger - 10 beams of 9 salvage with 9 damage pulse, all connected to one computer. But they don't do anything.
The bobby AI on them says "Fleet" and enabled. (And "Any"). The faction modules are set. The core is connected to the salvage. The salvage is connected to the storage. The storage is connected to a bunch of cargo space.
I can order them to a sector with asteroids and they go there. And wait. And when I order them to mine? They wait some more...
If I drag them to within meters of asteroids and tell them go... nothing happens.
That about sums it up. I enjoyed moving my ships as a fleet for a little while - My non-militarized ships were defended while I attended to other things.
Until I told my fleet to fly from one end of my system to the other end. Through a star. Boom!
But I decided to try mining drones and I kind of enjoyed it for a few minutes, haha. They frustration on all this is extremely high!
Pickup points work depending on orientation, but... Sometimes that doesn't work. I've probably spent literally hours messing around with pickup points that don't pickup. Frustrating.
Any ideas about the mining drones? Other than staying away from stars?
Today I made improvements, and the new drones will not mine. :/ This would be less frustrating if it never worked in the first place.
Yesterday, I discovered that the salvage units on my dead drones were accidentally not connected to storage. Oops! I connected the storage, and they came to life! Watching those drones work felt awesome!
The new drones are bigger - 10 beams of 9 salvage with 9 damage pulse, all connected to one computer. But they don't do anything.
The bobby AI on them says "Fleet" and enabled. (And "Any"). The faction modules are set. The core is connected to the salvage. The salvage is connected to the storage. The storage is connected to a bunch of cargo space.
I can order them to a sector with asteroids and they go there. And wait. And when I order them to mine? They wait some more...
If I drag them to within meters of asteroids and tell them go... nothing happens.
That about sums it up. I enjoyed moving my ships as a fleet for a little while - My non-militarized ships were defended while I attended to other things.
Until I told my fleet to fly from one end of my system to the other end. Through a star. Boom!
But I decided to try mining drones and I kind of enjoyed it for a few minutes, haha. They frustration on all this is extremely high!
Pickup points work depending on orientation, but... Sometimes that doesn't work. I've probably spent literally hours messing around with pickup points that don't pickup. Frustrating.
Any ideas about the mining drones? Other than staying away from stars?