I do own the system when i mine. I spend 30 min mining ast. and end up with maybe 10-15k. I spend the same amount on a planet and get 200k. I know the ast. have a greater ore ratio, But i still get more from planets. This is experience talking. I prefer to mine ast. as i can make carved Blocks, and paint. But I get more raw ore from planets.
I think they are working on the planet lag thing.
If this is the case for you, you are likely using a planet miner on asteroids. Planet miners can be much wider and slower than asteroid miners. When I asteroid mine with my specially tuned asteroid miner, I get roughly the same amount of minerals per minute as I do planet mining with my planet miner. I use overdrive and a decent thrust ratio. The asteroids are gone in 1-2 clicks of my beam. I tend to fly in the orbital ring, and by the time I loop around, the asteroids have respawned. I don't use any slave because it seems to slow down mining on the asteroids, even though it seems to increase planet mining speeds. I use a 40x30 double waffle system with 24 length groups, I orient the miner so the long side matches the long side on the asteroid. 4:1 thrust ratio, and overdrive. I have 800,000 power regen, and 1.2 million power storage.
I find it's better to have an array thats slightly smaller than the larger asteroids so fewer beams miss, increasing the length of the groups, and I can scan across the asteroid, than to have an array that is twice the size of the asteroid, wasting power.
Asteroid mining and planet mining require very different machines to be efficient.
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Currently, with that system, nobody with a decent salvager would be able to mine a planet correctly because of lagspikes. One second they'd have a ship, the next, all the salvagers are gone. This would increase the amount of half-mined planets servers would have because players fear they will lose their beams.
People would also work around this by just making their beam groups extremely long.
On another, off topic note:
IMHO people who do this look like self-centered assholes that think nobody can read their name to the left. It also extends the length of the page by a decent bit if you post multiple times on the same thread.
The whole point of this is to discourage planet mining in the first place. If a few people have to loose an array or two to do it, so be it. If you can find a workaround, good for you, but the whole point of discouraging planet mining is to increase galaxy exploration ability. I would rather see mining colonies on planets than the dead worlds we've grown accustomed to.
It would be really cool too be able to hire NPCs to work in your mining camps. They could automatically dig mining shafts and build small habitations, shops, and landing pads (if you told them to do so.)
