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Professional Mining (Public Alpha Test)

This is a TEST MOD, we don't recomend saving with it active... we are hunting for bugs that we do not see on our test machines and wantign to show off about a month of hard work and get some feed back. This mod is all about improving mining. we rewrote the entire mining script focusing on Mining more efecienty and reducing system recources tied up by waste rocks (rocks that have no recources in them). this script currently only effect mining of solid objects the gas script was not modified yet, but we see room for improvement there as well. To understand what we did you must first understand what the mining script did in the original game and to properly compair it to the other mod senesable miner you must understand his changes too. the original game had 3 checks to find a rock, i think the first was at 3km from the ship and if it found a rock itflew to the bigest one and chopped it up then scanned again always huntign the bigest rock and moving a lot. if it reached its 3rd scan at 65km and didn't see anythign it flew in a random direction for 20 seconds then started scanning again. sensable miners mod reduced the clutter by targetign the smallest rock, with the same rules for the most part. We went a different route... we wrote a ping into our scan... the first ping is 125m any rocks that are the right type there are selected as targets and harvested. the ping grows at a rate of 2X the previous ping so after 125m the next is 250m then 500m then 1km and so on till it reaches our sanity check value. once it reachest that number we know that cluster doens't contain what we want which can happen with rare recources like nirvidium and crystals we ask nearby clusters the question do you have any and if they say yes we plot a coarse and fly to them.. then ping out again... it takes about 5 or 6 minutes to find a nirvidium cube usually now. we also did things ot speed up script responce, like sub contracting tasks.. drones and cannons are not in the same script so thay don't have to wait for each other to finish to do stuff. to run this script you need 2 additional pilots on board or at least 2 pilots on board the skunk attime of order being given... the script wil auto place the pilots on the ship and being the advanced mining operation... if not your ship will go standard mining... to figure out if you ship used advancedd mining when you check your logs (enter-2-4) you will see something like your ships name activated turrets your ship name activated drones. enjoy this early alpha test.