mining?

[Natural Ace]

just wondering what the best way to mine is? as it is taking forever to mine an asteroid then use the tractor beam on every little fragment! any tips or hints? lol

[chaosavy]

The best way to mine is to have your ships mine for you, the game is Void Destroyer 2 - not Void Miner - heh heh

So while the goal is that "everything that the AI can you do you can do" - including fly any ship and mine/etc - and that's more or less in place - somethings you might not want to do more than once, like mining.

So:

Hired mining ship - fly to a asteroid field, hired ship will stat mining, return to base, sell the ore.

Fleet/Owned ship - giving them commands

Fly to an area - hit space to enter tactical mode, find your mining ship(s) - select it (left click) find a nice sized rock - right click it, ships will begin mining :)

[Percopius]

Yeah, I just fly to the edge of a mining area, let my minier mine, protect him,when he is full i tell him to efect his pods, my transport automatically picks them up, then I tell mininer to get back to it, etc,... it great, works like a chram and feel real (like I am working with people)

[Natural Ace]

ok awesome thank u much i will deff give it a go lol

[Dez The Dapper Bocchi]

do i need a transport? just bought my very first miner and need some help

[chaosavy]

This thread talks about mining - http://steamcommunity.com/app/369530/discussions/0/350542683199278088/