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SPOILER WARNING .............................. SPOILER WARNING..........
If you do not want to know the mechanics of mining of have never mined before, please do not read this post.
So mining... it's simple... An avatar places a set of probes on the ground, those probes drill down into the ground and explode, sending pieces of probe into the surrounding area, if a resource is detected, ie other probes, those probes may be extracted as a resource type into a player's inventory.
Mining is simple alchemy, the transformation of a base substance, in this case ammo or probes into another type of substance.
The location of probe fragments can be determined thru simple maths, but the impact is huge. Primary law of Alchemy.
"Alchemy: the science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead. But alchemy is a science so it must follow the natural laws: to create, something of equal value must be lost."
The losing part comes first, to populate the system with resource nodes at different depths and locations. Secondly the system checks for the presence of probes and allows their extraction from underground.
A bit of math
Min distance probe will travel = depth/((amount of probes)^(1/3)). We are dealing with a cube hence the root 3.
I will be working on the premise of a 137.508 degree spread between the probes because golden ratio and sunflowers.
In this way from the location of a probe drop, the locations of other probe fragments can be determined. As you might have surmised it's a never ending chain of cause and effect, which is effected and generated by every miner in the game.
Thankyou for your time.
Sample
If you do not want to know the mechanics of mining of have never mined before, please do not read this post.
So mining... it's simple... An avatar places a set of probes on the ground, those probes drill down into the ground and explode, sending pieces of probe into the surrounding area, if a resource is detected, ie other probes, those probes may be extracted as a resource type into a player's inventory.
Mining is simple alchemy, the transformation of a base substance, in this case ammo or probes into another type of substance.
The location of probe fragments can be determined thru simple maths, but the impact is huge. Primary law of Alchemy.
"Alchemy: the science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead. But alchemy is a science so it must follow the natural laws: to create, something of equal value must be lost."
The losing part comes first, to populate the system with resource nodes at different depths and locations. Secondly the system checks for the presence of probes and allows their extraction from underground.
A bit of math
Min distance probe will travel = depth/((amount of probes)^(1/3)). We are dealing with a cube hence the root 3.
I will be working on the premise of a 137.508 degree spread between the probes because golden ratio and sunflowers.
In this way from the location of a probe drop, the locations of other probe fragments can be determined. As you might have surmised it's a never ending chain of cause and effect, which is effected and generated by every miner in the game.
Thankyou for your time.
Sample
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