Anyone tried to destroy a mine with the mining laser

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Anyone tried to destroy a mine with the mining laser

Post by Skeeter » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 16:07

I know its a station but it is still an asteroid, so can you destroy them with ease like u can, with a mining laser of course not other weapons i mean, when there is no station built on.

Another idea is that you can steal ore/silicon by blasting the asteroid parts of ore/silicon mines and nick there resources for your own profit mwhahaha. Doubt it will ever work or be in a future x game though.
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Post by lastboyscout » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 17:08

Not sure, once you convert it to a station it gets sheilds so you would have to blast through them first i guess... :?
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Post by Skeeter » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 17:19

Forgot about them lol.
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Post by pjknibbs » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 18:26

Mining lasers actually do a lot of damage to both shields and hull, so against a big stationary target like a mine they'd be extremely effective--more so than GHEPTs, believe it or not!
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Post by GaddyG » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 18:31

work quite well on orinoco's if they decide to bug you while you're busy mining...
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Post by Feersum » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 20:58

I tried it on a planet once. Sadly, nothing happened :)
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Post by Scarecrow » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 21:01

That was ambitious of you :o
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Post by proteus01 » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 21:06

The drilling laser is very good at destroying ships, with the exception of it being slow and having a low range.
I used it on a disco, instant dust.
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Post by Malcolm (Cyteen) » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 23:42

And I thought you meant squash mine hahahahahahahaha

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Post by Tsar_of_Cows » Wed, 20. Apr 05, 23:49

I dont thnk you'd get any yeild, but it would certainly be a highly effective weapon. I used to use it for defense when I was in the mobile Mineing trade, many an Orinoco (well, a few) were mined by it.
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Post by esd » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 00:30

Mining laser saved my butt early on in my first game of X².
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Post by The_T » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 01:39

Feersum wrote:I tried it on a planet once. Sadly, nothing happened :)
i'm trying to imagine what it woulda looked like if something HAD happened.
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Post by GaddyG » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 01:41

just think of the yield of that!
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Post by Nanook » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 03:57

The_T wrote:
Feersum wrote:I tried it on a planet once. Sadly, nothing happened :)
i'm trying to imagine what it woulda looked like if something HAD happened.
Take a look at Home of Light, to name one sector. It's what happened when the Xenon 'mined' the local planet. :lol:
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Post by pccenter » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 06:54

When i mining in Ore Belt i notice that some Asteroid i mine respawn. Have the asteroid of destroid Silicon or Ore mine respawn?
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Post by Hachiman » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 09:08

I was actually doing a little a 'little' mobile mining in the Colossus so I gave it a try....Sent the Demeter round the back and pounded on a local Ore Mine with the mining laser....Its shields dropped to just below 70% and slowly came back up....Tried to help matters along with a dozen or so Hornets but no joy....The AI treat them as stations and not as asteroids so I doubt very much that they would re-spawn.
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Post by JaimeWolf » Thu, 21. Apr 05, 10:04

pccenter wrote:When i mining in Ore Belt i notice that some Asteroid i mine respawn. Have the asteroid of destroid Silicon or Ore mine respawn?
Actually that's the only way to permanently detroy an asteroid.
Build a mine on it and then destroy the mine.
Destroying the asteroid will result in it respawning.
Planting a mine will remove the asteroid and replace it with a Mine.
Destroying the mine will result in the mine going missing off someone's ledgers.
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