There have been many discussions on changes needing to be made to the mod.

As I am a very community-driven person I wanted to discuss some of these changes with you all.

Firstly, Adding this to vanilla.
I personally agree that a similar implementation should be in place because of the fact they have indeed added the tiered hand tools, why not ship tools?! It's now been proven you can do this successfully.

Second, The Tier's balances.
There's a bit of indecision on balancing the tiers, how to balance, what to balance...etc.
We have toned down the drills, welders, and grinders to smaller scales, so not to have insane speeds.
The welders/grinders are still very fast, just not 'insta-build' fast.
The drills, have been toned down, so they still drill larger holes, and we do agree that the block sizes need to be increased especially for the drills.
In addition to these changes, we can only change so much, as SE is not a full simulation game, we're simply trying to make it easier to play on servers (we added increased range on them so you don't have to be right next to the block to weld/grind, preventing ship crashes on servers and (clang....at least we tried).

I am going to keep track and hopefully be able to re-enable ore detectors, because they game just simply can't handle them at this stage while on planets.

Using them in space, is the only option to re-enable them, so we may enable them if that becomes a better option.

Until then, I'll be thinking up more mod ideas for things people want in SE.

Feel free to leave comments below on the new information :)

Edit: Tier 4 drill was added to see your reactions on the change. Many people asked that 'tier 4' be entirely different.
We welcome your feedback on this change.