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Plasma Miner

@Hicks, no idea. Very old mod for 1.x

Hi, good idea. Is this works with 4.1 ?

i agree with ro, either that, or make the welding laser a purchasable item that can be bought later to replace the mining laser, like they did with the heavy laser. also, is it posible to remove the dependance on this so that i can have this and not need the welding laser? i have another mod that adds a repair laser to the ship that cant be removed/bought/sold/replaced and dosnt interfear with other weps, but i also like the heavy laser,(i also use a mod that doulbe the efectivness of this heavy laser too,) and would like a mining tool like this so that i dont need to have the mining laser on site.

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So I can download myself if I want... thats good to know

The X3 Welding Laser aside, I am wondering if it is a better idea to leave the Moning Laser as its vanilla state and change the Plasma Cannon to a "Spot Welder." My thinking is this: 1: The start of any game requires you test your new weapons by using the Mining Lased on a few rocks, but you don't have the Plasma Cannon yet; 2: You can no longer use the Mining Laser to open lock-boxes, so there is a bigger risk of destroying the boxes with other weapons. Thoughts?

Thanks, I installed last night and it worked pretty well together with the welder. I wish ES would let up on some of the timesinks in this game and implement some tools like these (this and welding laser) to make it a bit more fast paced. I don't know what they were thinking making you sit there and wait 30-45 minutes for a 5 star engineer to get the ship moving again only to wait another 10 for a jump drive. You will NEVER have that much time behind enemy lines or during any sort of an engagement, and enemy ships aren't exactly flying in to more protected space for you to conveniently capture them. And also considering the welding laser was such an iconic part of X3.

@Defektiv, just adds an asteroid multiplier. Damage against anything else is the same.

Does this change the damage multiplier for the Plasma Cannon against everything or just asteroids?

@RedEye_Jeroll3d, you only need this if you are using the Welding Laser mod.

If you are using it, you cannot mine asteroids with it as it converts the mining laser to a repair laser. You can still mine (blow up) asteroids with other weapons just fine, but it is slow. This mod adds a multiplier to the plasma cannon, so it can "mine" asteroids real fast, to make up for the converted weapon.