I agree with you!

I would happily throw a few bucks at Slav2 to get some new code written if it is ever an issue. He provides a great service for us and I have now issue paying him for it.

I agree.

Slav2,

I know you're very busy making changes for the new login, and we're not asking for anything now, but would you be willing to tell us what plans you have for this change in November?

I doubt in belt boosting will work properly. Every time when bonuses gone, bot will have problem to lock far asteroids or predict time required to pop asteroid. So all bot needs to stay in close range from booster. As soon as several miners will go to the same spot, they start to mine the same asteroids. Profit will drop.

On the side note. Can you fit miner I to your booster and act as a tank-miner? Fit active module to high slot and set 100-100 rule to activate. Place the same set of bookmarks to all your miners and ask them follow miner. Define mining yield/optimal range/targeting range/cycle duration as parameters to GetLaserData function in the algorithm. These measures will enable basic functional (without reloading booster's ammo).

Lets wait for update and look what we have and how to deal with it.

Thank you for replying so promptly! I considered the idea of a "Booster Barge" even where one of the Mining Barges has a booster fitted instead of a second mining laser (if it has one of the +1 Boost rigs, it should be able to fit it?). I think the range-based boost would be really difficult for the reasons you describe, but if you were only using the capacitor use/laser duration boosts, it could still be helpful and wouldn't mess with the bot's logic too badly (other than the expected yield calculations, which are somewhat confusing to me).

Your idea of fitting a single mining laser to the booster and making it the selected tank is a great idea! I think it depends also on how much "ammo" the booster can hold (can it hold enough for hours and hours of mining?).

I (and many others) am very glad that you are interested in solving this problem! There are many of us who would be willing to pay for a separate Booster Bot if it becomes a computationally complex solution for you.

I still think we need something like that:

1. Booster warp to belt (can even warp fleet mode be used) (bookmark 01), align to (bookmark 2 - in the same belt but in the other side) and stop the booster. Fit in the booster 1 scaner for the belt.

2. Miners (you need at least 3 miners in my calculation to make it works) warp to booster (bookmark 01). Set keep distance 2 km. Open Fleet hangar.

3. Get the 3 most valuable ore in the belt (e.g. miner 1 - kernite; miner 2 - ...) booster get new scan in the belt in 5 min.

4. Miners check if they have crystals in the module. If not, get one from his cargo hold.

5. Orca fleet hangar 40.000 is 90%, warp the looter to fleet member booster. Get the ore from the fleet hangar and so on...

I know. You need something like Inomminate is working (hangar management). You need all the VMs and computers to communicate properly, in some king of unified .text in your server, or some way to make they work together, even if you charge for this service. You need to make miner and booster reload crystals to miners and "fuel" to bonus links. You ca make booster scan the belt and make it available in the aforementioned .text so the miners knows how much ore the will get and they will work properly or even be just a control to booster to approach bookmark 2. Booster will approach bookmark 2 and miners will get revised list of ore or scan it again, to keep bot more reliable.

I know. If you have 5 miners, looter will be very busy, but it can take. If booster have more then 90% cargo he can transfer to other hangars and make space for the miners. It can be managed in the .text file comum to all the bots or even make looter warp in and out faster.

Extra things good to have some day:

Drones.

1. if rats appears take fights drones to space. Click in drones and ask then to support booster. Booster will select targets and ask drones to attack (if you have 5 skiffs, you have a very good power in your hands even ca have lights, mediums and some havy drones for the job.

2. if no rats, leave mining drones t2 in the belt. Make they get nearby ore. (miners will get the far way ore possible first).

So, tks for listening and best regards.

btw. Nice job in resolving the login problems in the last days.