Robo miners/Remote Mining maintenance Reduction

[Codo]

For my mod, I am making 3 hull types specifically intended for remote mining. The small prospector has enough space for bridge, crew, life support, 1 robo-whatever, and 20kT extra (intended for supply storage). The medium has enough room for 2 robos, and the large has room for 3 robos. All three have -75% maintenance. What's to prevent them from being used as warships? They only have 2 engines, they are 75% easier to hit in combat (Slow and bulky...) and weapons fire from them is at -75%. Now honestly, I wish the Requirement X Type system from the vehicle sizes was working as advertised. Then it would just be easy to rig the hull to require x% hull space for remote mining...But until someone can tell me how to make this work, I think this is a great way to make a cost effective vessel for mining, but to discourage its use as a combat vessel...


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Codo


[This message has been edited by Codo (edited 10 March 2001).]