Quarry

Nautical_Nick · July 2016

So a lot of people have said that resources become problem getting towards mid and late game. well i'm here to propose a way of fixing that, a quarry. A room the size of the scanner room that collects materials by using a laser to drill into the surface of the planet. The lasers heat is contained inside a containment field which if penetrated causes fires. The player would collect materials from a storage chest that all the materials would by piped into. Possible upgrades include:
-laser focusing- increase mining speed by 40%
-energy efficiency-laser uses less energy
-sprinkler system-fires are put out automatically
-strong containment field-penetrations happen less often
each resource would have a certain chance to be found with the areas local resources being the most common and than more rarer resources that don't spawn in the area going with most rare.

ThePassionateGamer · July 2016

The Exosuit will have "Drill-Arms"...so maybe they are planing to include some kind of mining in the game at some point. I would love to be able to mine for resources rather then "picking them up" one by one. But I think you would need special "mining" spots for that. Not just random digging anywhere on the map. That would be strange and to Mincraft-ish for me. That way you could also have resource respawning in the game.

Nautical_Nick · July 2016

Yeah, after posting I had the idea that when the hologram showed up it would also turn the sea floor some sort of shade of either red or green, bright green being the best spots while bright red beign the worst. Oh and thank you for telling me about the drill arm @ThePassionateGamer.

Tyr07 · July 2016

<font color="red">Fires</font> would be a lot of fun in bases to put out, having equipment that generates risk / reward would be fun and give use to the <font color ="red">fire extinguisher</font>

Quarry

Comments