Anyone else thinks that portable miners should be much slower?

[Ragnaman]

As it is right now you can just drop 20 portable miners on one spot and fill yourself up.
Maybe they should be limited to just iron and copper?

[Suzaku]

Nope.

[Zolthoan]

No.

[sansee]

20 on one spot? Why? You still need to manually pick the ore up.

Portable miner is slower than Mk1, and MK1 is relatively quick to get...

Portable miner: 20, 40, and 80
MK1: 30, 60 and 120

[zverozvero]

It cant be automated. Even basic miner+storage is preferable cause it'll keep stacking while you can build or explore and lets pick up all prepared stacks in single click. Plus proper production line with conveyor supplying smelters and so on continuously is a first goal to achieve.

[Ragnaman]

Right, however it takes you 5 minutes to haul 1k of more rare resources allowing you to progress research much faster, without the need for logistics.

[CrazyOdd]

With correct setup, you can probably go past 1000 a minute, but who wants to play ore mover, when miners exist?

[DaTank]

nope

[Shahadem]

No. It would be fine even if portable miners are even higher because you have to manually move the ore every 100. Even if you are offloading into storage connected to a conveyor belt you'd be stuck sitting there moving ore yourself. The entire purpose of the automated miner is convenience. Especially since the level 1 ore miner is just a portable ore miner connected to a shaft and conveyor belt.

[Verios44]

Portable miners mine based on purity level

So a pure node will fill up faster than a impure. Plus they only have a 100 item limit anyway until stopping.

[Geck0]

Beyond a certain point, filling your inventory with 20 miners wouldn't even be worth, you'd be better off just connecting a mk1 to every node you see and powering it
Not to mention once energy stops being an issue, you can get most resources faster than you'll know what to do with

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

Right, however it takes you 5 minutes to haul 1k of more rare resources allowing you to progress research much faster, without the need for logistics.

And that's a problem... how? Even if portable miners filled up in a single second it wouldn't disrupt the overall game in any major way. Actually, it would benefit it because it would theoretically enable you to somehow play without actual miners. Call it a challenge run.

The only thing that nerf would do is make the early game slightly more tedious, and make early game quartz and caterium hauling take slightly longer.

[Blastroid]

Let me know how long it took to make a turbo motor with the portable miner only challenge. ;)

[Ragnaman]

I am not talking about using these miners to create 100k steel ingots,
I am talking about them allowing you to skip logistics to do research.
You can take 5 portable miners, drop them on a node, go take a piss, and come back and wow you just made research pointless. Why even have progression as a game design if you can skip it with the first object game throws at you ?

[Electy Zoned Daltic]

I mean, you still end up wanting to automate it so you can actually make use of the tech you unlock? If they nerf them then all you have to do is set up a biomass gen + a little biomass hooked up to a mk 1 connected to storage right in front of it.

[Ragnaman]

Originally posted by Electy Zoned Daltic:

I mean, you still end up wanting to automate it so you can actually make use of the tech you unlock? If they nerf them then all you have to do is set up a biomass gen + a little biomass hooked up to a mk 1 connected to storage right in front of it.

Yes exactly, you have to do "something" more than just dropping 5 cans and wait for two minutes.

Of course I might be wrong and I am the only player who has taken 10 portable miners on an expedition to gather quartz only to blast through research.