um....what's an idea? lol
My thought is simple...a miner, something that is designed to mine asteroids. To be honest it isn't really needed, so if you are making it because i NEED it, don't. Although i apreciate the offer.
Considering what we are mining here....my thought is a low level laser to carve it's way through the ice. I don't want anything getting blasted apart. But instead....carving. It would also have a decent enough sensor array as to pick up the stress points located beneath surface, thus, making possible carving on fracture lines as it is. Hell you get the picture. After all, this is mining, why would you want to blast apart that which you are mining? While blasting is certainly faster, how much material would be lost in the blast? More than we would lose using a "torch" to crave, because in space...the steam would cool very quickly and reform as ice. Just a thought.
But as i said....it isn't needed. Something else to consider.....if this were to become a model, it would probably need it's own asteroids, which would of course have to modelled with dock points for the carving...etc etc etc.......in some of the newer builds...with multiple ship docking, this would work well....but in retail, with only one ship docking point, the system is actually more cumbersome than anything else.
actually i think that this style of miner is a great idea for the multiple docking builds.
anyway....that's my thought, so for retail this is a bad idea. lol
