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Mining for R & D Materials. Could it happen?

stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
On the ground or in space, you will see clouds of different mats, from Beta-tachyon, Z-particle and Rubidium etc.
Currently on Vlugta asteroids as is known,you can mine for dilithium.
It would be a miracle if cryptic ever do this but, how about allowing us to mine for R & D materials there too? Unlimited mining to help with speedier crafting.
Mining operations on moons and other planets too maybe?
Ok so perhaps i'm dreaming, but its worth a shot asking, just in case a dev does read this.
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  • platewearingbirdplatewearingbird Member Posts: 455 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    stuart1965 wrote: »
    On the ground or in space, you will see clouds of different mats, from Beta-tachyon, Z-particle and Rubidium etc.
    Currently on Vlugta asteroids as is known,you can mine for dilithium.
    It would be a miracle if cryptic ever do this but, how about allowing us to mine for R & D materials there too? Unlimited mining to help with speedier crafting.
    Mining operations on moons and other planets too maybe?
    Ok so perhaps i'm dreaming, but its worth a shot asking, just in case a dev does read this.

    Why would they speed up something they want to be controlled by time and resource gates?

    Seriously, start thinking like Cryptic.
  • fatman592fatman592 Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Doffs can farm for you.

    I also prefer mats to stay rare, easiest ec I make.
  • betayuyabetayuya Member Posts: 1,059 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    mining a vain randomly on one of the maps would be an added benefit to the game, that would actually be kinda cool lol
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Actually... Last I checked, you can get mats from mining at Vlugta.
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  • betayuyabetayuya Member Posts: 1,059 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    like the dil mining, if there was a rock face, or the game would change to what ever it was like you could get stuff off vented plasma, or a random debris piece for it's raw materials. they would probably not add it though :(
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Enh... they kinda already did.... a long time ago. But in a limited way, since there are only a few per map. Scanning anomalies was once the ONLY source of R&D mats. But now it's a minority component.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    It would be different and added something to do. If you could mine stuff on the ground as you work.

    The Nukura planet has these as well. So I mined them when I could.
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  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Or how about a doff project that you could break down dropped items into mats, and components ?
    White items = 1 white mat or component
    Green items = 1 green mat or component
    Blue items = 1 blue mat or component
    Purple items = 1 purple mat or component (mkxii or up only)
    Utra rare items = 2 purple 1 blue mat or component
    Elite items = 3 purple 3 blue mats or components

    Or a variation of that would be awesome.
    They could even have another commendation rank or r&d rank associated with it. Salvage Rank...
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