Are big rocks or big clusters of rocks incoming any time soon for mining in a group, or are there any plans to force multi-crew organized runs in the same spot with multiple travels to clean the location of valuable minerals?
TL;DRBigger rocks could be a short-term fix, but the longer-term vision is multi-crew mining with simultaneous weak-point hits, though that is very far off while the focus is getting all features done once.
So about the bigger rocks, that could be a short-term solution to the momentarily, more or less, unattractive multi-crew mining, but we have bigger plans for that. So we have some ideas of how we can improve multi-crew mining in the future. So some of the visions that we have is that we have some weak points that need to be hit at the same time, and even players need to make them explode at the same time. So imagine a situation where you are with several Prospectors targeting the same stone. Everyone hits the same weak point of the stone and then you have to time it so that you don't damage other pieces of the rock, and then the rock splits and then you can proceed to your mining. Same goes for the ARGO MOLE. And what we also envision there is that we even expand on the functionality of the mining gadget. So, for example, if you have a rock where the weak points are opposite, you could use the mining gadget to actually move the weak spot so that you are able to use the ARGO MOLE. But this is very far off in the future right now.
Right, because we talked about it a little bit with Todd last week, because the team's focus is going to be mostly on resource management and life support and stuff for a little bit before you can circle back to some of these other things.
Right now, our focus is getting all the features done once so you can start iterating over them.