Factory appointed gasminer ?.

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Dreez
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Factory appointed gasminer ?.

Post by Dreez »

How does this work?.

I have a growing complex that will need gas so i bought a large gasminer, but the strange thing is that they appear to not use
anything to collect gas with, except for drones. Gasminers also can't be appointed to stations like other miners can.
I've tried clicking on my gasminer and then rightclicking on the complex to work for it - but the option isn't there.

So... how does one appoint a gasminer and have them run automatically ?.

Or do you need to locate the gas before been given the option to appoint the miner to the complex?.
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Re: Factory appointed gasminer ?.

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I've located Methane in several systems now, after a few hours of hard work sending my scout around with probes,
but the problem still remains. I can't appoint a gasminer (Large Teladi ) to the station it's suppose to harvest gas for.
So currently i'm manually sending the ship to get gas then drop it off at my complex.

Is there a known issue with gasminers specifically or is this just intended to be this way ?.
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Re: Factory appointed gasminer ?.

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Dreez wrote: Sat, 15. Dec 18, 05:58 I've located Methane in several systems now, after a few hours of hard work sending my scout around with probes,
but the problem still remains. I can't appoint a gasminer (Large Teladi ) to the station it's suppose to harvest gas for.
So currently i'm manually sending the ship to get gas then drop it off at my complex.

Is there a known issue with gasminers specifically or is this just intended to be this way ?.
Does the station have docking facilities for L size ships ?
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Dreez
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Re: Factory appointed gasminer ?.

Post by Dreez »

Yes the station has a large dockingbay, i made sure of that since i knew i would be using Large miners exclusively.
It's so annoying that i can't run the Crane Gas miner like the other miners, both my ice and ore miners (Both L Crane)
are sorting themselves out perfectly fine.

Anyone else having problems with getting L Gas miners working for stations ?.
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Re: Factory appointed gasminer ?.

Post by Dreez »

Another thing that is probably the cause of it, but i can't figure out why, is that there is no option for
'Default behaviour" to mine, it's always set to patrol automatically unless i manually tell it to mine.

All my other miners has mining set as default behaviour without problems, except for the gas miner.
The captain of the gasminer is only rank2 piloting, could that be a factor ?.

/Edit.
Another strange thing, and it could be crusial, is that when i setup my L Crane Gasminer, i wasn't given any options
in the turrets for any "mining laser" or anything to collect gas with. So i put all tracking turrets in all places and gave it
the standard 6 mining drones, 3 cargo and 1 repair.

The Gasminer is appointed to the complex. The complex is set to "buy order Gas minimum price". Same with Ice and Ore.
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