Does mining lasers go through ships? Or will there be any other types of "lasers"?

[TimeTraveler]

As in lasers i mean continueous fire like the mining laser, as i got some ideas for a boarding ship and i just wanna know if it will even work.

 

[MAXD]

I always want a weapon version of mining lazer .
Also kinks of lazer will be good and SF.

 

[XenoCow]

I have little doubt that the mining laser will do damage to ships, just as the pickaxe can also do damage to ships. I don't know how effective it will be, but it will definitely be worth testing out once we can.

 

[Saltylelele]

As of right now the mining laser is not active in teh CA, so we dont know yet. Wiki may tell you.

(CA Tester, check disc role)

 

[Talla]

Wouldn't it be cool to have the space station asteroid muncher / collection area, but on a ship?
It would be similar to the cargo lock frame, but with higher power consumption.

That way, you could literally bulldoze your way through asteroids (and ships maybe)?

 

[Verbatos]

Imagine getting three lasers on a track to move up and down in a cutting motion, start slice through ships like butter that would.

 

[blackcityfiles]

Just imagine your attacking a mining ship out in some asteroid belt and they just ignore you until you get to close just for them to start mining your ship too!

 

[XenoCow]

Just imagine your attacking a mining ship out in some asteroid belt and they just ignore you until you get to close just for them to start mining your ship too!

I'd love to see a bandit ship get sliced to pieces by a mining ship. That would be great!

 

[FranklinZ]

Maybe put mining lasers on a rotating platform to get a rotating blade.

 

[BadgerBadger]

If mining lasers damage ships, can I give my ship a mirror finish to reflect that damage back to the sender with love.

 

[XenoCow]

Sorry that I forgot about this earlier. There is footage of the mining lasers doing damage to ships in THIS VIDEO at minute 3:00.

 

[Quinc]

Judging from the video the mining laser functions more like a cutting laser, vaporizing a small piece of the target each half second. It trades damage per second for precision. So you can absolutely kill the enemy with it! Either strategically destroying specific parts on a slow target, or relying on the lack of a travel time to more consistently hit a fast target.

Wouldn't it be cool to have the space station asteroid muncher / collection area, but on a ship?
It would be similar to the cargo lock frame, but with higher power consumption.

That way, you could literally bulldoze your way through asteroids (and ships maybe)?

While that might seem like a great idea, it could result in exponential growth and eventually veteran players who have essentially unlimited resources. With the competitive nature of the game that would mean building ridiculously large ships which in turn result in massive lag and various balance issues. Resources are meant to be a limiting factor, but if you can build any number of asteroid munchers on your ship, raw resources stop being a limiting factor. This is also true for mining lasers, so hopefully they don't directly collect materials.