1073 mining station asteroid placement gather field inconsistent

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boolybooly
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1073 mining station asteroid placement gather field inconsistent

Post by boolybooly »

When placing a mining station the gathering field is projected onto the asteroid but not the location where the station will go.

As a result the built station can end up excluding resources which were expected to be in range because the gathering field is measured from the station not the roid and the station is put in an arbitrary position miles away from anywhere!

This is inconsistent and misleading, see screens showing a station missed out on a high yield roid because of this (proven to be a miss as it is picking up more steel then mebnar). :shock:

Expected behaviour is an accurate projection of the built station gathering field prior to building.

To provide suggestions, maybe this could be achieved in various ways.
  • Simplest would be to project the field from the future station location when ordering the station, not the roid.
  • Alternatively you could try to get the station a bit closer to the roid IMHO. Not sure if there is any reason the station should not replace the roid, remove the roid model but retain its resource attributes, reverse on destruction of course.
  • Or you could just deploy the gathering field at the asteroid and treat the station as displaced.
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kissb
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Re: 1073 mining station asteroid placement gather field inconsistent

Post by kissb »

in case this gets fixed, can we have the sum of minerals shown to us, when we try to place the mining station, so we don't have to check the rocks one by one to look for something?
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