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Differentiating between mining lasers
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Zalasastra
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-05-11 21:37:27 UTC
When using strip miners on rocks it can often be useful to end the cycle of the miner before completion in order to not waste time mining emptiness.

It's easy to use a survey scanner to know the remaining yield in a rock targeted by one of your miners and therefor know how far through the miner's cycle to stop it.

However, there is no mechanism for knowing which specific miner is on which specific rock, preventing you from knowing either how far through the cycle you are if you disengage the miner from the target icon, or know how far through the cycle you are, but not know which rock you're disengaging if you turn the miner off from the HUD.

I'm proposing a simple mechanism which would visually tie a strip miner or similar module on the HUD to the weapon-on-trarget icon.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-05-11 21:55:58 UTC
This has been suggested a few times. But mining lasers are certainly the least of the worries.

The best suggestion I've seen is to have the icon on the targeting interface light up when you hover over a gun or a group of guns. That way you can hover over your modules and instantly see what they're active on.

'till then though, try looking at the range to the rocks. I spent a good deal of time mining when I was younger and found that it was very rare to have multiple rocks that I had locked that were at the exact same range from each other.
Lady Starfire
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-05-11 22:05:34 UTC
Even better would be it just ends the cycle once the rock is empty and you can target something else and move on.
Fish Hunter
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-05-12 01:52:26 UTC
Lady Starfire wrote:
Even better would be it just ends the cycle once the rock is empty and you can target something else and move on.


Right now this is one of the main things rewarding miners for paying attention with survey scanners. Change is to something like this and why would you ever use a survey scanner again.
Zalasastra
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-05-12 01:53:28 UTC
mxzf wrote:
'till then though, try looking at the range to the rocks. I spent a good deal of time mining when I was younger and found that it was very rare to have multiple rocks that I had locked that were at the exact same range from each other.


what you say would only help to figure out which survey scan result is which rock, not which of the three rocks you are mining corresponds to a particular miner. the only way for me to do that currently is to watch which rock changes contents when each miner completes a cycle.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#6 - 2012-05-12 03:30:56 UTC
There is a way to know which miner is on which rock.

Know which laser on the ship matches the laser on the module buttons.
Use the scanner. Click on the rock in the box. This will also select the one that you have targeted (if it is one you have targeted).
The selected rock will have an odd circling thing around it as part of the targeting.
Follow that rock back to the laser.

It does take a few seconds, but after years of it, I barely notice anymore.
Zalasastra
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-05-12 05:00:04 UTC
Corina Jarr wrote:

Know which laser on the ship matches the laser on the module buttons.


Thank you Corina, that was the bit i was missing.