There are small and big ships for transportation and warfare. But there are only big multi-crew ships for mining/reclaiming/etc. I would like to start mining, but without high ship & NPC costs, simply on my own or with a friend. Will this be possible?asked by Funcracker
TL;DRYes, smaller mining and reclaiming equipment and a smaller dedicated miner are in longer-term plans, though the ships are not designed yet and timing depends on priorities.
Yes.Obviously for some of the larger scale stuff, reclaiming or mining, having a bigger ship helps because it's a bulk business. But we definitely have plans to have smaller mining equipment and vehicles you can use. You don't necessarily have to be using the Orion that will just allow you do to do it at a greater ... if you are dedicated as a miner that's how you reach that critical mass. But we'll have mining equipment on smaller ships and probably have a smaller dedicated miner. And potentially the same on the reclaiming stuff too.There you go, it will be possible: we haven't designed the ships yet but we have discussed it and it is in our longer term plans. But again, like I've said in a few of these answers there is quite a lot of things we have on our longer term plans so it's all a matter of priorities.