From Extraction to Production

[CCP_Swift]

@Io_Koval

Dang dude, y’all been a little busy. Looks super interesting. Two unclear questions from reading the blog post:

1. Is ice no longer 1 cycle = 1 unit? It used to be pretty fundamental that way. The very first Mining Waste example with Blue Ice implies this is changing, but it is never explicitly mentioned in the blog post.
2. The post mentions “high waste mining of opponents’ resources via updated mining crystals that increase harvesting at the cost of increased waste” which seems like Type B (increased yield at cost of increased waste), and Type A is your “regular” crystal. So what is Type C for with bad yield and even higher waste designed for? If the goal is economic warfare, it sounds slower than mining with Type B and just deleting ore from your hold.

Thanks.

The replies you got are right on the money.

To clarify the graph, if the Waste Volume Multiplier is 1x and the Waste Probability is 100%, that means for each cycle you would get the same mining amount as you always do (1), but 2 units would be removed from the asteroid - 1 to you, 1 to space dust.

If the Waste Volume Multiplier was 1x, and the Waste Probability is 50%, then there’s a 50% chance that you would have that extra waste. The waste never comes from your yield, so there’s never a chance where you get less than what your mining lasers indicate. In this latter example, over 10 cycles you’d get the 10 ore, and the asteroid you were mining would have (on average) 15 ore removed from it (10 to you, 5 to space)

The C-classification of crystal (name TBD) is, simply, designed to destroy rocks. Whether you want to clear out the remains of an anomaly you no longer want quickly, or if you want to destroy someone else’s asteroids is completely up to the players.