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No Mining Penalty
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No Mining Penalty

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Description
Removes the hidden yet crippling 50% mining penalty.

Resource probes are still required for you to see the density, but with this mod you only require one resource probe per sector to avoid the penalty.

Vanilla has a hidden mechanic which checks if your mining ships are within 40km of a resource probe owned by you and silently applies a 50% penalty to mining efficiency if they are not. Thus, players are unknowingly hamstrung by this mechanic as there is literally no way to learn it exists in-game.

This mechanic is particularly troubling because vanilla has no automatic method to deploy resource probes, so it's extremely tedious to avoid the penalty without mods. If you know the penalty exists, there is no indication if or when it is applied to your ships.

Even when using a mod like Satellite Service to automatically blanket the entire sector with probes, it is still possible to receive this penalty because the probes are deployed on one plane. Therefore, you would receive the penalty if the ship moves >40km above or below the probes. Covering the entire sector with probes also reduces performance and visually clutters the UI.

X4 contains many more hidden mechanics.
Check my Steam guide for more information.
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Who 2 Jul @ 3:23am 
Ahh yes, thats good to know! Thanks.
Ram  [author] 1 Jul @ 10:04am 
@Who:
Yes. It will also be up to date forever unless they change the formula, because it specifically only overwrites it without affecting any other part of the game.
Who 1 Jul @ 7:42am 
Is this up to date?
fatbasementdweller 13 Apr @ 3:52am 
Awesome. I hate having to manually make sure miners are always near a probe... Thanks.
💖 Officer Hotpants 💖 12 Apr @ 10:29am 
The most beloved hidden penalty since Terraria added bad luck with ladybugs and torches.
Ram  [author] 5 Apr @ 2:39pm 
@Tisoon:
It does remove the penalty from NPC factions if they own at least one probe in the sector. The vanilla penalty code checks for probe ownership, so your probes will not remove their penalty and vice versa.
Tisoon 5 Apr @ 12:31pm 
Does this mod also affect AI miners? Or do they still follow the Vanilla behaviour?
Thanks for the mod 🙂
Saeb 27 Mar @ 2:56pm 
they need to fix this bullshit mechanic. Thanks man
MyNameIsJan 22 Mar @ 3:28pm 
At some point in the tutorial it is mentioned that a miner without a probe is less efficient but I thought it would be like a bonus if a probe was within the sector and not like penalty and the miner needing to be in range of it
Ram  [author] 17 Mar @ 3:03pm 
@IchBinGroot
I didn't claim it only affects the player. A penalty is still a penalty if both parties can receive it. The problem is the lack of information about its existence, and the lack of feedback if and when it is applied to your ships. Players who enjoy the penalty can choose not to use the mod.