I am an experienced player, X3 couple of thousands of hours, same for X4. I just though I have a chilled game, custom game start with one L and one S miner. Just flying around, gathering ores, selling and perhaps building a station with the earnings. Just relaxed, for a change.
But what I find is that the mining gameplay for L miners is utterly impossible. My Idea was to employ the S miner to sell resources while I control the L miner. Problem is that I can't transfer resources to the S ship while I pilot the ship, and when I get up from the console the mining drones stop working. I could let a NPC control the L miner, but they don't work well in high attention. I can make a lot of profits with the S miner myself while the L ship next to me is not collecting anything while in high attention.
This is really messed up. I understand that Egosoft might consider an operational fully automated mining fleet overpowered, but it is not even working player controlled, in the simplest way, and the obstacles seem to me very unnecessary.
The main thing is that transfers of good between ships is not possible while the player is piloting the carrier ship. This is an annoying issue with all classes of ship, Miners, Traders and all types of combat ships. I could not pilot a carrier and have the fighters rearm at the same time.
The second Issue is that drones are no working when I park the ship at a good spot and let a captain take over without a command. I could support the mining process with the S ship, but that is not possible, as the type of ware the S/M ships collect is different, L miners collect the entire asteroids with the drones and not the raw material.
I actually don't expect Egosoft to change this for X4, but please, make it better for X5... All the limitations to operate an effective mining/trading fleets that can include the player are missed opportunities for fun game play loops.
Thanks
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