Waste of money? (Mobile Drilling system) - Heeeellllppppp

[Leroy The Badger]

I've bought a mobile drilling system and an ore collector for my Paranid Demeter. I've found an asteroid (yield Ore 14) and blown it up with the drilling system.

I was expecting to see lumps of ore floating around that I could then pick up and sell. Instead, the asteroid breaks down in to several none targetable chunks. If I blow these up with the drilling system, they just disappear and don't leave anything behind.

anyone got any ideas?

[Bazza]

Doesn't work as of 1.2.01 apparently.

You'd think there'd be some sticky about it wouldn't you?, but its only certain class of topics that get stickied. (Exactly what that is I'm not sure).

Not sure if its going to be fixed in 1.3 either because the things included in 1.3 are a bit of a secret at the moment. I'm sure if you know the correct nudge and wink and are a member of the appropriate egosoft club you may be able to find out though.

[Rad Jeebus^]

There is a known bug with mobile mining, basically you can't do it right ow, will have to wait for the next patch.

Jeebs

[Leroy The Badger]

Magic

Thanks for the info guys.

[X-it]

There should indeed have been a sticky about this. I was about to set myself up with mining equipment soon. If I had spent hours on it and I couldn't get it to work without knowing if I was doing something wrong or not, I'd be frustrated...

[soleseacher]

Hmm don't quite know how u missed this one boys there's been loads of threads complaining about mobile mining.
Mine included
And yes your dead right about the way egosoft treat its customers
The praverbial mushroom "Keep them in the dark and feed them a load of
you now what!