Keeping the mousebutton pressed to get 8k into the ant is annoying. Pls think about implementing a toggle option. thx
Was thinking the same thing today - good QoL change. I'd also like to be able to drain a silo as well as fill one.
Cool what about those that rather want to spent the thousand certs on stuff they need more immidiately though?
No it's not, save your certs. It mines fast, but overheats after 2400 units of cortium and cooldown is quite slow. I've just tried to compare those two and it happened that Howler is slower than default miner. It takes 5 more seconds to mine a 6000 node.
The Howling Laser is definitely worth it. On a large node, it is slightly slower than a regular laser (~2 seconds per 10k load), otherwise on small nodes it is twice as fast. Unloading is 25% faster (Unload 50% of your tank, wait on cooldown, unload 50%... it ends up that you take 75% of the time to unload as per regular laser). But you really shouldn't think of it as just speed. Think of it more as total time spent. You roll up to a small node- drain it in 50% of the time of a regular laser- then you are spending the other 50% of your time already moving to the next node... no time wasted. You unload 50% of your tank at the silo- hop out and grab or place an item- hop back in and unload the second half of your tank... no time wasted. Ripplist and I did several tests and watched our score per minute, and Howling Laser was allowing me to hit 50,000 whereas the normal laser was keeping him at 29,000 (during double XP). We were mining the same area, but I was constantly moving. Plus- Howling Laser allows you to mine the node- then look for enemies- mine the node- then look for enemies... Where the regular laser just keeps you focused on the node.
pretty simple constantly to having keep clicking the button for a task that simply isn't fun to do is annoying and spending what is iirc a 1000 certs which for some people takes 2 and a half weeks to get ( you know work and RL stuff) for just a minor ease of use tool when there are more gameplayimpacting tools than that just isn't worth it
The thing to do apparently is use the top laser while the Howler is cooling off. So you can bump up your solo harvesting at the cost of a top gun. It's all lame, everything about construction is lame.
Give up Basilisk for pure mining? Naaaah! Nah. You have no idea how many times I have saved the bases, because I just passed by and stumbled at the enemy sunderer parked near our empty base and bunch of ghostcappers are trying to get a hold of it. Free exp!
Well, it's a chore that most of the community would rather not do, even if it means never winning an alert. You basically drive around, shoot rocks, build a base in some annoying crevice, then fly back to it every 5 minutes to kill a solo infil. Until it gets helplessly crushed by a gal drop. It could be cool, and I bought everything for the base with real money because I saw the potential, but it's not cool, it's absolutely lame.
The point of base building is to provide a meta for outfits. You need a lot of people to get one up and running, let alone to defend it.
then you build that base for the wrong reason .. hive's are not the sole reason to build pmb's .. i build bases as staging areas for when a sunderer isn't enough or as occasional firebase that weakens another pmb's defenses
