Free infinite oxygen mining credits - bug?

[csbdeady]

Just started playing Evochron Legends (awesome game BTW) and have noticed what seems to be an infinite money loophole / bug in the latest build:

1) Dock with a planet;
2) Buy Mining / Tractor beam;
3) Buy as many cargo slots as possible;
4) Turn the tractor beam on;
5) O2 is mined while docked;
6) Double-click cargo bays when all full and each will net (Sapphire price today) around 18k.

Is this intentional?

Suggested fixes:

A) As you sell the O2 the price in the local market rapidly decreases, hence after selling 25+ units it isn't worth doing this until you fly into space and back (which would then make doing this too much a chore to be worthwhile).

B) Diallow mining beam to be activated when docked.

=-Colin

[csbdeady]

18K is not a lot of cash.

True, but there again I can set this going, head off for my lunch, come back and with sufficient cargo bays I'll have a stack of credits. All that money comes to me without having to play the game at all, which is really why I mentioned it

[Edited on 8-16-2009 by csbdeady]

[csbdeady]

Try doing the same thing in Olympus, Fauston, Lambda, or Thuban and you will come back to a destroyed ship.

Excellent, good to hear - lousy O2-spongers like myself ought to be beaten with a happy stick in those systems for "misappropriation of valuable materials"

[Nigel_Strange]

"Infinite" could be defined as the number that is one more than you're willing to count. In this case, infinite O2 is more oxygen than you'll have the patience to bottle.

I found a system where the prices are better than in Sapphire, and so the O2 racket, while still not exciting, yields a better payoff. However, by the time I found this planet, I already had enough money to buy whatever ship I wanted, so it was just a way to pay for fuel and the like.

In Thuban, there is a tax on the O2, and if try to make money there, they'll send red goons out to try to collect.

[WeirdWill]

It doesn´t feel realistic to me to mine oxygen while docking at the starport or over the city. It is just to easy even if the money isn´t that much.
I always think it should be illegal / forbidden to mine oxygen over a city. Your tractor beam could disturb the coordination of groundcontrol / air traffic.

[warsign]

Originally posted by WeirdWill
It doesn´t feel realistic to me to mine oxygen while docking at the starport or over the city. It is just to easy even if the money isn´t that much.
I always think it should be illegal / forbidden to mine oxygen over a city. Your tractor beam could disturb the coordination of groundcontrol / air traffic.

So we need security guards or polices to prevent carrying illegal cargos and minings? With faster ships. Would be cool imo.

[BraveHart]

LOL.....Well there are planets in not so nice systems that give you a challenge to fill up with oxygen while fighting hostiles ...."Flame on Sparky we're under Attack!!".....

[Maarschalk]

I find it cool that you can mine oxygen above cities. Especialy when you have 11.2 billion credits. The sale of the oxygen at the city is a good way to cover your fuel costs wich is expensive if you have that amount of credits as I do!