Unless there is something I am very much missing, all attempts to make the Fleet Mining work have pretty much failed with medium sized vessels made prior to the update. Each of them can function as their own miner perfectly fine.
Either using own mining ships, or using any combination of the ones inside this BP:
(Place inside blueprints to access)Using a drone that's any decent enough size will result into 2 things:
Small drones seems to work fine, the bigger ones (60-100m in length) do not.
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| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | lancake | T1249 Big enough mining drones don't salvage | ||
| Open | AndyP | T2301 Mining AI misses it's aim. |
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Medium to large ships have issues aiming their salvager, or getting to face the ship correctly.
I'm unsure why those 2 ships don't want to fire though, I'm guessing their salvager isn't linked to a chest, or there is no room left in that chest. Both will disable salvaging. Please provide a blueprint of that smaller ship too so I can test that out too.
In case it's not user error, I'll make a new task for it, this one is reserved for the ship spinning/salvage issues with medium-large ships.
I can say that a slight user-oversight meant that the smaller brick-with-cockpit drones indeed dont have their salvage computer connected with a storage block. Didnt realise this was the behaviour at the time of creating and testing, as my larger vessels were not mining too well at all.
I can say it works "ok" for smaller ships on the scale of 25x21x21, but not appropriately using their mining arrays is a real drag, and wont see much use untill they can be told to mine a whole system without player input. Especially since there is a salvage cap of 100 modules/output in terms of salvage power.
Also, They will collide with Asteroids, and they cannot mine a moving asteroid, significantly reducing their mining speed over a player purely mining themself
I have performed some fleet mining tests today,
All nine drones will mine.
Add a Drone, mass 1.1k L 120
All drones stop mining, larger drone rams the asteroid repeatedly.
Drone approached asteroid rams and retreats then rams again.
Manual piloting the drone and salvage beams will not remove blocks from the asteroid.
Relog
Manual mining works again
Exit Drone and issue mining command, drone rams the asteroid.
Last point to confirm again is that asteroid selection is random and most of the time asteroids on nav are totally ignored.
I really Hope this is going to be Fixed soon... Got the same damn Bug . Tested it with 2 K Ships and higher Mass ones. Didn't worked as expected
We've been having problems with fleets refusing to mine on LvD as well. I tested with some 3k miners. The salvage computers had salvage beams and a storage attached. Plenty of power and thrust. When issuing the command, nothing happens.
Seconded, tried to perform a test (I have an idea as to what the issue might be) but couldn't do so due to drones just refusing to aknowledge any mining order.
Potentially related, recently noticed that the behaviour of AI is affected by the relative locations of the COM and the core with behaviour becomming less reliable the further apart these two are. Could be that with larger mining drones the distance between the COM and core is causing the issue. This also may be worth looking into as its own issue.
