Mining suns? Cargo scanners activation key?

redviking · Post by **redviking** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:52 am

First question: I had the idea (I thought I saw it somewhere but then realized it was about the fuel converter actually) that we might be able to "mine" the suns. But I got pretty darned close to the Sapphire sun (i.e. I blew up) and the mining beam was still picking up nuttin. Is there a way to mine solar units that I haven't thought of yet?

Misc comments on the game: I love this game! The mining helps cashflow and gameplay a lot and the nice lump sum starting money is nice for early upgrades that other games would make you grind hours for. I think that's a giant leap for space simkind.

The one downside about the trading aspect is space stations rarely have any commodities for me to buy as far as I've seen (just traveled five hours or so in the stations and planets in the Sapphire system so far). I'm still looking for electronic components to get for the first beacon! I'm about to just "borrow" those that you get for accepting find and retrieve missions.

The only other downsides are the surprises that come when you figure the game will be intuitive but isn't. I made the noob mistake of feeding the Sapphire Energy company more cargo than the contract required by jettisoning my entire cargo bay into space. So then I think I'm smart and do the next one by clicking on the item in my cargo bay effectively disintegrating it and failing the contract. Shouldn't there be a way to just push a single cargo crate out of the bay? I've since read the manual and see that both were warned about. Ahh the risks of an adventurous noob spirit. Thankfully, I also read the warning about putting ships in hangars. I would've figured that the weapons and equipment went with the stored ship and kind of hope that gets implemented in future patches (at least with the option of keeping equipment and weapons or storing them too).

Second question: Do cargo scanners have the ability to scan crates that are adrift? I haven't found the key command in the menus and can't seem to target them anyway. Is the only purpose of the scanner to see what other ships have in their bays?

-Viking R Me

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:09 am

To mine suns you need both mining/tractor beam and Fuel Converter and what you mine is particles that gets converted to fuel which fills your fuel tank. It will not fill your Cargo bays with fuel.

Electronic units you can also find in hidden containers. Hire a Navigator and Sience Ops. They will help you find stuff.

You can store equipment with ships and store Equipment from Cargo Bays seperately in Hangers. So if you want to store your equipment in a Hangar, Load the equipment in your Cargo Bays by right clicking on the Equipment when docked at Station and then you can store them from Cargo Bays in to Hangars!

Cargo Scanners can scan crates that are adrift I believe. You just have to get close enough depending on the class of scanner!;)

Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Welcome to the game and forum. Looking forward seeing you out there!;)

[Edited on 8-24-2009 by Maarschalk]

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:54 am

Hello redviking, welcome to the forum and the Sim. C U in space soon.

[Edited on 8-24-2009 by thetiebers]

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:11 pm

Welcome Aboard redviking.....Glad to see you in the forum and I look forward to seeing you online in MP.

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:59 am

Hello redviking, welcome aboard.