Ore Collector....

Cant figure out how to use the Ore Collector. I can select and scan asteroids, but dont know how to chope them up or beam them into the collector. If you figure this out, let me know!

on the move. gonna blast up some ore rocks and collect them tonight...

hey maphys, when you broke up ore asteroids, what's a good weapon to do it with? i can currently buy an "impulse ray emitter" or a "particle accellerator cannon"

Of the two definitely the PAC - the IRE is basically an antimissile weapon as far as I can tell! It does very little damage and has almost no range. Which makes breaking rocks deadly at times because you can be so close you get hit by the shards! IRE = 1km or so range, PAC = 1.7km IIRC. But the PAC drains weapons energy faster so you don't want to waste energy firing it randomly - get close, fire a burst and wait. Of course since there are no enemies bearing down on you then it doesn't really matter!

Edit - when you can get them HEPTs are even better if you can fit them. 2.32km range, loads of damage.

M

maphys wrote:Of the two definitely the PAC - the IRE is basically an antimissile weapon as far as I can tell! It does very little damage and has almost no range. Which makes breaking rocks deadly at times because you can be so close you get hit by the shards! IRE = 1km or so range, PAC = 1.7km IIRC. But the PAC drains weapons energy faster so you don't want to waste energy firing it randomly - get close, fire a burst and wait. Of course since there are no enemies bearing down on you then it doesn't really matter!

Edit - when you can get them HEPTs are even better if you can fit them. 2.32km range, loads of damage.

M

nice. i'll get a PAC. i like takin my time in this game anyway. it's gonna last me so many years. Hmmm/ HEPTs.... thanks dude.

you know what sucks is they wont give me the zyph. i am one rank below that. i i left argon space to pursue the boa. my new mission under god. we got a half pack of cigarrettes, a full tank of gass, it's night, and we are wearing sunglasses.....HIT IT.

i'm going to get a PAC installed on my mercury, mine ore, and sell it to the split tonight. it will take a long time to rank up, but it's the only way right now. unless someone knows a product and a couple sectors where i can make run after run....like the tip luckey gave me about selling ore back and forth from cludbase nw, argon prime and herron's nebula.....

gonna head back to argon space tonight, trade or with all 3 of my ships now. the toucan is still at adlana hill military base. i just left it there with a bunch of marines on it. maybe i should try trading something different this time. it would have to be XL cargo though.... hmmm