New Player - Couple of Questions

[Infinitynull]

So I've been playing and I am a man of efficiency I don't want to mine all these nodes. So I've made little drones. Given them the right materials and sent them off mining. Good deal, it worked and I made profit from it. Now I've sucked this sector dry. How do I move them all (5) of them, to another sector without having to manually do it?

 

Second question I've seen a post about building on an asteroid if this is a thing what's the point of it?

 

Third question, how do I get this trade system upgrade to work. It says it shows the prices of the sector, I do not see that.

 

Fourth question, my mining army is slow why are they so slow? Are they afraid to disappoint me by slamming into an asteroid?

 

~ Thank you for your time.

[Adramos]

I can answer your first and fourth question.

 

First: You set all of your drones to Escort Me on your main jump ship. Make sure that the drones have the same jump distance as your ship or you jump only as far as they can so they don't get left behind.

 

Fourth: I believe I read somewhere that its a bug where they don't go as fast as their potential, even with adequate braking thrusters.

[Infinitynull]

Alright you are a god thank you, one more question if I set them to mine in a sector and leave. Do they hold the resources they collect until I come back. Or do they stop mining?

[Adramos]

That is one thing I do not know, I've read somewhere that the sector unloads shortly after you leave but I have never put that to the test. I've always kept my flotilla of ships with me, being guard to them as they are much weaker than other ships in my neck of the woods.

 

Edit: For question 2, yes you can build stuff on asteroids, how and why is beyond me.

[Infinitynull]

One more thing what are these boxes with red strips on them? I made the guy drop his cargo I can't pick anything up.

[Infinitynull]

Example: http://imgur.com/a/u19TQ

[Dinosawer]

2. I think certain types of station can only be built there (mines)

3. There should be a new icon in the menu top-right when you equip the upgrade

 

 

 

 

Alright you are a god thank you, one more question if I set them to mine in a sector and leave. Do they hold the resources they collect until I come back. Or do they stop mining?

Resources they collect get added to your inventory when they're mined, even by AI ships. But they do stop mining after (by default, changeable in server settings) 5 minutes after the player leaves the system (and is not in a connected system either) when the sector unloads.

 

 

 

[Dinosawer]

One more thing what are these boxes with red strips on them? I made the guy drop his cargo I can't pick anything up.

That's cargo, but by default you don't pick up stolen cargo (as you can get fined for carrying it near other ships) - changeable somewhere in ship menu

[Infinitynull]

Awesome, thank you guys. This really helped. Now time to become a pirate and steal cargo MWAHAHAHHAHA