My miner does not mine.

[Storm]

I fly the dern pilot to a huge asteroid full of silicon. A Resource probe is down. I set him to automine silicon and he flies away from it and is now just flying around in he middle of nowhere near the damn asteroids doing absolutely nothing on my dime while on hallucinogenics.

What is going on?

[Wraith]

Are you in sector watching him or out of sector watching him

They use different mechanics to mine

[Storm]

Now finally, after a long wander, he went mined an asteroid, and there is no silicon in the hold at all?

[Storm]

I was on board the same ship, watching him mine with the ship view. It did the same when I tried to mine one, mined it, nothing left no cargo.

[Wraith]

What size of ship?
If it an L do have have mining drone to pick up loot?

[Storm]

Medium

[Storm]

It's a 'Drill' ship from Argon Prime

[Storm]

So if I mine, I get no loot, and if the pilot mines I get no loot if I am on board the ship, because I am WATCHING IT?

The REASON I am here watching it is because i send it out to mine silicon full bars and it flies around getting nothing, or maybe 2/3 before quitting and giving up.

This is an acceptable bug? It doesn't work if I am there?

No I say it is an unacceptable bug.

[Wraith]

Are you by chance in a sector with tons of empty asteroid like 2nd contact?

In sector mining mine the empty asteroid to.
So I recommend a sector without tons of dead asteroid if your gonna watch them

[Wraith]

Also argon prime = bad mining location

[Oddible]

This isn't a bug, if you call everything you don't understand a bug this game is going to be miserable for you and us. There are very few actual bugs. Especially around common stuff. Folks here are happy to help.

There are several things at play here. First, lower star rating captains will take longer to find a source to mine, likewise to find trades. In fact they do everything slower. Same with service crew. Second, just because you're looking at an asteroid doesn't mean that one is the motherlode or that it is even the one you captain will choose to mine. Remember, this game gets very complex very quickly, most of this stuff is meant to be passive and looks kind weird if you look directly at it. Lastly, let's make sure your miner is set up correctly. Post a screen shots of your ship's behavior tab.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by Oddible:

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That not his problem

The problem was that he was mining and watching In a sector (argon prime) that has tons of dud asteroid and very bad yields

IS mining mechanic does not do well in sector like these

Especially if it Argon prime or Second contact

[Wraith]

As for the OP if your gonna watch your miners mine do shift + 2 first to decide if the sector is worth it when your in an asteroid field

Tons of Colored asteroid = good
Blue for silicon

While no color asteroid like in Argon Prime and Second Contact flashpoint = bad

[Storm]

Originally posted by Wraith:

Originally posted by Oddible:

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That not his problem

The problem was that he was mining and watching In a sector (argon prime) that has tons of dud asteroid and very bad yields

IS mining mechanic does not do well in sector like these

Especially if it Argon prime or Second contact

It was in argon prime I was having problems and hickvah's choice and it is mostly dead roids.

I will try watching in a more densely packed area. Thanks

[Storm]

Originally posted by Oddible:

This isn't a bug, if you call everything you don't understand a bug this game is going to be miserable for you and us. There are very few actual bugs. Especially around common stuff. Folks here are happy to help.

There are several things at play here. First, lower star rating captains will take longer to find a source to mine, likewise to find trades. In fact they do everything slower. Same with service crew. Second, just because you're looking at an asteroid doesn't mean that one is the motherlode or that it is even the one you captain will choose to mine. Remember, this game gets very complex very quickly, most of this stuff is meant to be passive and looks kind weird if you look directly at it. Lastly, let's make sure your miner is set up correctly. Post a screen shots of your ship's behavior tab.

Well I think it's frustrating as hell, and me mining a roid and no result in hold IS a bug and I don't care how few roids are in the zone. This IS a bug if it works in zones with more resources.

I don't call every problem a bug. What other problem do you see here? But trying to figure out why my newbie miner pilot can't get 10k worth of materials without an intervention only to go do it manually and it doesn't even work at all because it's BUGGED is a bloody drag.

Thanks for your input though. I do try to figure things out and I know my people are going to suck, but they need to at least be competent and not tripping while flying around aimlessly when they should be at work.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to helping me figure this out too!