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To that end, we\u2019re going to great lengths to ensure that \u2013 whatever your interest \u2013 there\u2019s an enormous amount of things for you to do and obstacles to overcome.\n\nStar Citizen will support a diverse set of occupations, each with its own unique set of challenges and rewards. However, there is no artificial concept of a character having to select a specific profession or character progression based upon gradually incrementing numeric attributes. The only thing that dictates your success or failure at a given endeavor are the actual capabilities of you and your companions and the equipment you bring to bear.\n\nThe first of several occupations we\u2019ll be aiming to detail over the ensuing months is mining. In many ways, it is representative of the basic design goals for all of the occupations within Star Citizen.\n\nMining presents players with a variety of challenges requiring skill and intelligence, whereas mindless repetition of a task and idle drudgery are explicitly avoided. There are no aspects of mining that allow a player to simply press a button and wait without concern for a result, or that require players to perform an action repeatedly without some element of thought and\/or dexterity coming into play.\n\nAmple amounts of dangerous situations are afforded, despite the fact that combat isn\u2019t inherent in any fundamental aspect of the effort. The most valuable materials will often reside deep within a dense field, the result of less experienced pilots being unable to extricate them without suffering serious damage to their ship. Compressed pockets of gas, volatile materials that can explode in the presence of excessive energy (which is required in some capacity in order to liberate the ore from its parent asteroid), and elements that can explode when subjected to seismic vibrations as caused by repeated fragmentation operations all present their own unique types of jeopardy. While most miners will seek to actively avoid armed conflict, the reality is that any ship carrying a cargo of valuable ore will present a tempting target to less scrupulous types, rewarding those players that formulate contingency plans in advance, whether that be the hiring of an NPC crew member extremely talented with a defense turret, or investing a portion of the expected profits into hiring an armed escort or two.\n\nFinally, multiple roles of substance are presented, each of which is referred to as a specialist. Every role can occupy the full attention of a player and present sufficient challenge to keep them engaged, or assigned to an NPC whose skills are commensurate with their monthly cost.\n\nThe Trade and Development Division\nA trip to the local Trade and Development Division \u2013 the TDD \u2013 is often the first step on a prospective miner\u2019s list. The TDD serves as a marketplace for the various commodities and other products available at a given location, and as such gives a good sense of what\u2019s in demand and therefore which materials warrant the most attention in terms of obtaining the most attractive profit margins.\n\nFreelance Mining Versus Working as an Agent\nWhen deciding upon a course of action, every miner has two basic options \u2013 working freelance or acting as an agent in the employ of another entity. Freelance miners elect which materials they want to procure and, after retrieval, set out to find the optimal trading port at which to unload them. While potentially the most lucrative, this approach exposes miners to the vagaries of the market, and if demand wanes during the acquisition of the materials the price eventually obtained might be insufficient to have warranted the effort and expense endured, especially if significant expenses were suffered in the form of costly NPC crew members having been utilized, fuel having been expended, or damage to the ship having occurred.\n\nMiners working under contract for another entity remove most of the risk from their ledger, but in so doing often have to give up a significant portion of their cargo\u2019s value in exchange for the benefit locking in a fixed price. Further, they risk a hit to their reputation if they are unable to procure the promised materials within the specified timeframe. The information gleaned from the TDD is of significant benefit in ascertaining whether the discount being offered is warranted by the security of a guaranteed contract.\n\nFinding a Suitable Asteroid Field\nOnce a basic mining path \u2013 freelance or contract \u2013 has been decided upon a player must put some thought into how they wish to locate the sought-after materials. Asteroid fields containing ore of varying purity levels litter most star systems, but prior to a miner engaging their quantum drive and making haste to begin extracting value from the environment, they must gain knowledge of those fields.\n\nTo this end, every solar system contains a variety of information considered public knowledge, including the location of major asteroid fields. The entry-level miner often begins their career via heading towards such well-known sites, but as would be expected the most valuable materials in such fields have typically long since been extracted. The remaining ore of value is often spread so thinly throughout a vast field that its retrieval requires more time and effort than more advanced miners are willing to endure. Valuable new fields are occasionally located and made known to the public, often resulting in a dramatic increase in mining activity\u2026and soon thereafter a drop in prices on those materials contained in ample quantity within the field as players rush to exploit the freely available resource.\n\nAlternatively, miners may elect to employ the services of an information broker who, for a price, will offer the locations of a variety of smaller fields unknown to the public. While more reputable brokers will truthfully report the type and quantity of materials to be found within a particular field, there are some who have been known to exaggerate the assets contained within a field whose location they are seeking to sell.\n\nThe last and most time-consuming option \u2013 but also potentially the most lucrative for those able to master another discipline \u2013 in terms of finding an asteroid field to exploit is to simply act as a Pioneer and find your own. The Pioneer occupation specializes in the utilization of long range scanners and telemetry probes to scan huge swaths of space and find anomalies that warrant further investigation, with the end result that some turn out to be small fields of asteroids, occasionally with an attractive mix of valuable materials embedded within them. When acting in such capacity on your own \u2013 and not as an agent in the employ of another entity \u2013 the discovery of something remains known only to you. In such cases, you may elect to sell such information to a broker \u2013 with the price being dictated by the type and quantity of materials within the field, as well as the current market rates \u2013 who would then offer that information to others.\n\nThis last option \u2013 finding your own asteroid fields \u2013 has one variation that we expect to see widely utilized. Organizations may automatically share private discoveries amongst themselves, such that finding an asteroid field \u2013 or a derelict spaceship that could be salvaged, or astronomical phenomena that might be studied by an aspiring scientist, and other such things \u2013 would result in its location immediately becoming known to others within that organization but remaining hidden from the rest of the public. Thus, we expect that many organizations will wind up having a very vertically oriented and complementary set of occupations represented within its ranks, such that it can effectively cut out the middle man in many wealth-generating transactions and retain more value for itself and its constituents.\n\nThe Orion\nThe extraction of ore from huge asteroids requires a very specialized type of ship. The first such ship to be offered to the community \u2013 via a concept sale starting today \u2013 is the Roberts Space Industries\u2019 Orion. It allows individuals to directly compete with the major corporations that previously controlled the space-based mining industry. It\u2019s a huge ship, measuring 170 meters in length, and containing a variety of storage containers capable of holding 16,288 standard cargo units of ore.\n\nMining Specialists\nThe mining occupation supports a variety of dedicated specialists, each of which has a critical role to play in the effort. As previously noted, one of the basic objectives in the design of the various occupations is breaking down large, complicated endeavors into a number of smaller jobs, each of which can test a dedicated player\u2019s mettle in unique and interesting ways. This encourages but does not force players to act in concert with one another to accomplish larger tasks, as you\u2019ll always have the option of simply doing it all yourself \u2013 however inefficient that might be \u2013 or, more likely, simply hiring NPC crew members to work alongside you. There\u2019s a lot of thought and effort going into the hiring, evolution, simulation of motivations, and evaluation of such NPC crew members, but that\u2019s a topic best left for another discussion.\n\nPilot\nThe pilot, of course, navigates the ship. While this sounds straightforward, in practice it is often challenging as impacting an asteroid can seriously damage a player\u2019s ship, and the asteroids with the most attractive resource compositions are often deep within a concentrated field. Pilots make the final call as to which individual asteroid warrants the most immediate attention, often choosing from an array of possible targets identified via the scanning process. They also determine whether to remain in a fixed position around an asteroid throughout the excavation process or to adopt a more active role, gradually rotating around a selected asteroid and thus giving the beam operator a better opportunity to find and extract valuable pockets of buried ore. Many asteroids are filled with dangerous materials that, under the right conditions, can blow the asteroid to pieces, increasing the value of a good pilot that can quickly navigate a ship to a safe distance even when the warning time is minimal.\n\nScan operator\nThe scan operator is responsible for injecting remote material analysis packages (RMAPs) into nearby asteroids that, upon success, immediately begin sending telemetry data back to the pilot and scan operator informing them as to the asteroid\u2019s precise material composition. Depending upon the ship and its associated hardware, anywhere from several dozen to hundreds of RMAP-equipped manually guided missiles may reside upon a mining vessel.\n\nUpon selection of an asteroid, the center of mass is automatically calculated and the scan operator begins the process of gradually scanning for a suitable RMAP insertion point. This is a multi-faceted process involving a search for a section of surface geometry oriented such that its perpendicular traverses the center of mass or somewhere close to it. The operator receives feedback on the angular difference, but it\u2019s ultimately their call as to whether a given site is good enough or not.\n\nOnce an insertion site has been selected, the location and optimal injection orientation are displayed, and the scan operator may launch an RMAP-equipped missile. The missile\u2019s thrust and guidance system are manually controlled, with the objective being to impact the asteroid at the precise point and with the exact orientation dictated via the previous step. The distance from the computer-specified injection position, deviation from the optimal angle, base material of the asteroid, and final impact velocity ultimately determine whether an injection is successful or not.\n\nOne interesting aspect of this particular effort is that the confidence of the scan operator plays a significant role. The more optimal the initial insertion point selected \u2013 which typically takes more time to achieve \u2013 the larger the error can be in the subsequent missile guidance stage and still achieve a successful insertion. More skilled operators, therefore, will often be willing to accept even a mediocre insertion site so that they may quickly proceed to the next stage, confident in their ability to hit the precise location at the specified speed and angle such that they\u2019ll still be able to achieve success.\n\nBeam operator\nThe beam operator is typically the second-in-command of a mining expedition. They are responsible for wielding the multi-megawatt mining beam generators affixed to one or more robotic arms near the front of the ship that fracture asteroids into digestible chunks. The beam operator has direct control over the output wattage, and is thus able to precisely control how much energy to dispense into a given area of an asteroid. This is critically important, as the injection of surplus energy into a volatile material can cause an explosive chain reaction to occur, with the total destructive force ultimately determined by the type and amount of reacting material. The beam equivalent of a sledgehammer, therefore, can be used to quickly excavate large quantities of inert materials, but a lower-wattage scalpel will be necessary when attempting to safely extricate those that may react violently in the presence of sufficient energy.\n\nThe Exothermic Reaction Detector is a status display on the beam operator\u2019s control panel that detects the production of excess energy indicative of the fact that the mining beam is causing a chain reaction in some portion of the materials in close proximity to the beam. This information is presented to the operator in the form of a vertical bar graph plotted over time showing the probability per second of such a reaction growing out of control and consuming \u2013 often in a powerful burst of energy that can send huge, dangerous shards of the asteroid flying towards the player\u2019s ship \u2013 all of the material in the nearby area.\n\nExothermic Reaction Detector\nEvery minable material has its own unique set of parameters dictating how much energy a given quantity can absorb, how quickly it can dissipate energy, how easily it can transfer excess energy to surrounding materials, its probability of fragmentation as energy levels reach critical levels, and numerous other things.\n\nThe average size of the fragments carved from an asteroid as the result of a mining beam being utilized, then, depend upon the amount of wattage the beam is injecting into the body, as well as the type of materials into which the energy is being directed.\n\nAs fragments are torn asunder from the parent body, they generate seismic tremors that resonate throughout the asteroid and only gradually dissipate. Some volatile materials are sensitive to such vibrations, and as such minimizing the magnitude of any such tremors is often of considerable concern. This is complicated, however, by the fact that such tremors are modeled independently of one another, with the sum total displacement caused by the superposition of the waves constantly being applied against the various materials within the asteroid. Thus, even a series of small tremors can present a serious threat depending upon how the waves interfere with one another.\n\nLaser Seismometer\nThe Laser Seismometer shows each individual tremor within an asteroid, as well as the superposition of the various waves. It also shows the vibrational thresholds for any seismically sensitive materials contained within the asteroid, assuming that an RMAP has been successfully injected. Explosions that occur as the result of a seismic event are often considerably more dangerous than chain reactions that consume a quantity of material in a localized area because they will cause all such material within the entire asteroid to detonate, with the end result often being the complete destruction of the asteroid, and a pronounced danger to any mining ship unfortunate enough to be in close proximity at the time. Fortunately, such events are often telegraphed in advance via seismic activity growing progressively more erratic and tiny pockets of material prematurely detonating and causing the ejection of small sections of the asteroid into space.\n\nHighly compressed pockets of gas buried within an asteroid present another distinct danger to a mining operation. Exposure of even a small portion of a gas pocket to the vacuum of space results in an immediate explosive decompression that can splinter nearby sections of the asteroid, send astronauts hurtling through space, and generate considerable seismic turbulence.\n\nAnalytical Materials Processor\nThe mining beam is equipped with a high-energy scanning probe called the Analytical Materials Processor that provides constant feedback as to what type of materials lie beneath the surface \u2013 within range of the probe \u2013 in the specified direction. Each material identified is presented on a horizontal bar graph replete with information regarding the depth at which it can be found and the approximate quantity.\n\nCargo operator\nThe cargo operator utilizes a console on the bridge of the ship that allows them to monitor a camera mounted within the forward-facing input port. From that vantage point the cargo operator can view the impact area of the mining beam, as well as the various asteroid fragments that are broken apart from the parent body and ejected out into space. The input port contains a powerful crusher that quickly reduces any incoming asteroid fragments to rubble and stores them in attached cargo modules for transport or, on ships with an integrated refinery, subsequent processing into their purified elemental forms.\n\nThe cargo operator directs a targeting cursor towards fragments of interest, with an integrated Fragment Scanner \u2013 similar to the Analytical Materials Processor utilized by the beam operator \u2013 providing immediate feedback in regard to the fragment\u2019s precise composition. In this manner, the operator is able to get a quick sense as to the relative value of the fragment, and whether it is worth attempting to guide it into the input port, or whether it contains so little of value that it\u2019s best avoided so as to preserve precious cargo space or time-consuming refining effort. The Fragment Scanner also displays the object\u2019s mass, trajectory, and velocity.\n\nThe cargo operator controls attractor and repulsor beam generators typically mounted just within or outside the input port, and the magnitude of the force generated by each can be precisely controlled so as to allow for intricate modification and control of a fragment\u2019s trajectory. The cargo operator\u2019s display allows for a variable magnification zoom, which is necessary since attractive and repulsive forces are applied at the precise location denoted by the target cursor. Application of force to a fragment\u2019s extremity, then, will typically result in generating a rotation on the object rather than any significant change in its direction. Thus, considerable skill \u2013 including the ability to quickly estimate an object\u2019s approximate center of mass \u2013 is required in order to efficiently apply forces and guide fragments along the desired path.\n\nRefinery operator\nThe position of refinery operator only exists on mining ships that contain an integrated refinery. Refineries allow raw ore to be gradually converted into their purified component forms, with the undesirable elements being ejected back out into space in the form of dust. Purified materials consume a small fraction of the storage space of their unrefined counterparts, which is of particular concern when dealing with low quality asteroid fields that possess valuable elements only in a highly diffused form, or when attempting to minimize the number of return trips back to a trading or storage facility. The refinery operator controls the routing of ore to a variety of specialized processing units, each of which has a different role to play in the separation of one material from another. Operator errors in the refinement process can cause sensitive equipment to fail, stalling the conversion process and costing valuable time until the affected item is replaced, typically with a surplus part stored in the ship\u2019s inventory.\n\nAll of the aforementioned specialist positions may be helmed by either a player or an NPC, with more experienced NPCs performing their duties in superior fashion, but usually at the expense of demanding a higher monthly salary.\n\nSelling Your Cargo\nThe final step in the mining process is converting your meticulously collected ore or refined materials into payment for your efforts.\n\nIf you accepted a job, you\u2019ll want to return to the agent that hired you and complete the transaction, resulting in your account being credited for the promised amount and a bump in your reputation for successfully completing the task. The agent will only purchase the specific type and quantity of materials that you promised to deliver, though, so you\u2019ll likely want to head to the local TDD to convert any surplus materials into credits.\n\nFor players that elected to operate as freelance miners, the path is often a bit less clear. Different TDDs at different landing zones may offer dramatically different prices, so you\u2019ll often want to do a bit of due diligence and ensure that you\u2019re not leaving any money on the table by quickly accepting whatever\u2019s being offered at the closest landing zone. The really significant scores, though, are often made by extracting a common material of limited value in one star system, and then transporting it to another where it\u2019s in shortly supply and the prices are much higher. It\u2019s your choice as to whether you want to operate exclusively as a miner, or do double duty as a transport freighter by lugging your own valuable cargo across the galaxy, and whether the risks you\u2019ll face in that endeavor \u2013 as you get ever closer to an area where your material is highly valued, you\u2019ll become a much more tempting target \u2013 are justified by the richer potential payday.\n\nOne last option that some miners might wish to undertake is related to speculation. If you\u2019re inclined to gamble, some landing zones will offer storage facilities that you can purchase on a monthly basis. Rather than selling your cargo immediately, you might wish to hold on to it, with the hope or expectation that \u2013 perhaps as a result of actions you\u2019re planning to initiate with the aid of your organization \u2013 prices might rise significantly in the near future.\n\n\u201cUltimately, that\u2019s what Star Citizen is all about \u2013 every player making their own unique decisions as to how they want to proceed at every step of the way.\u201d \u2003","de_DE":"Sic itur ad astra. von Tony Zurovec, Direktor, Persistent Universe\n\nDas ultimative Ziel von Star Citizen ist es, den Spielern ein riesiges, unglaublich detailliertes Universum zu bieten, in dem jeder seinen eigenen, einzigartigen Weg durch die Sterne gehen kann. Zu diesem Zweck unternehmen wir gro\u00dfe Anstrengungen, um sicherzustellen, dass - unabh\u00e4ngig von Ihrem Interesse - es eine enorme Menge an Dingen gibt, die Sie tun k\u00f6nnen und Hindernisse zu \u00fcberwinden gilt.\n\nStar Citizen wird eine Vielzahl von Berufen unterst\u00fctzen, von denen jeder seine eigenen Herausforderungen und Belohnungen hat. Es gibt jedoch kein k\u00fcnstliches Konzept, dass ein Charakter einen bestimmten Beruf oder eine bestimmte Charakterprogression ausw\u00e4hlen muss, die auf der schrittweisen Erh\u00f6hung numerischer Attribute basiert. Die einzige Sache, die deinen Erfolg oder Misserfolg bei einem bestimmten Unterfangen bestimmt, sind die tats\u00e4chlichen F\u00e4higkeiten von dir und deinen Begleitern und die Ausr\u00fcstung, die du zum Einsatz bringst.\n\nDer erste von mehreren Berufen, auf die wir in den folgenden Monaten eingehen werden, ist der Bergbau. In vielerlei Hinsicht ist es repr\u00e4sentativ f\u00fcr die grundlegenden Gestaltungsziele f\u00fcr alle Berufe innerhalb von Star Citizen.\n\nMining stellt die Spieler vor eine Vielzahl von Herausforderungen, die F\u00e4higkeiten und Intelligenz erfordern, w\u00e4hrend sinnlose Wiederholungen einer Aufgabe und unt\u00e4tige Plackerei explizit vermieden werden. Es gibt keine Aspekte des Mining, die es einem Spieler erlauben, einfach einen Knopf zu dr\u00fccken und ohne Bedenken auf ein Ergebnis zu warten, oder die von den Spielern verlangen, eine Aktion wiederholt auszuf\u00fchren, ohne dass ein Element des Denkens und\/oder der Geschicklichkeit ins Spiel kommt.\n\nEs werden viele gef\u00e4hrliche Situationen geboten, obwohl der Kampf in keinem grundlegenden Aspekt der Anstrengung enthalten ist. Die wertvollsten Materialien befinden sich oft tief in einem dichten Feld, was dazu f\u00fchrt, dass weniger erfahrene Piloten sie nicht befreien k\u00f6nnen, ohne schwerwiegende Sch\u00e4den an ihrem Schiff zu erleiden. Komprimierte Gasfelder, fl\u00fcchtige Stoffe, die bei \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfiger Energie explodieren k\u00f6nnen (die in gewisser Weise erforderlich ist, um das Erz aus seinem Mutter-Asteroiden zu befreien), und Elemente, die explodieren k\u00f6nnen, wenn sie seismischen Ersch\u00fctterungen ausgesetzt sind, wie sie durch wiederholte Fragmentierungsoperationen verursacht werden, stellen alle ihre eigenen einzigartigen Arten von Gefahren dar. W\u00e4hrend die meisten Bergleute versuchen werden, bewaffnete Konflikte aktiv zu vermeiden, ist die Realit\u00e4t, dass jedes Schiff, das eine Ladung wertvollen Erzes transportiert, ein verlockendes Ziel f\u00fcr weniger gewissenhafte Typen darstellt und diejenigen Spieler belohnt, die Notfallpl\u00e4ne im Voraus formulieren, sei es die Einstellung eines NSC-Crew-Mitglieds, das extrem talentiert mit einem Verteidigungsturm ist, oder die Investition eines Teils der erwarteten Gewinne in die Einstellung einer oder zweier bewaffneter Eskorte.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich werden mehrere Rollen der Substanz vorgestellt, von denen jede als Spezialist bezeichnet wird. Jede Rolle kann die volle Aufmerksamkeit eines Spielers in Anspruch nehmen und eine ausreichende Herausforderung darstellen, um ihn am Ball zu halten, oder einem NSC zugewiesen werden, dessen F\u00e4higkeiten den monatlichen Kosten entsprechen.\n\nDie Abteilung Handel und Entwicklung\nEin Besuch der lokalen Handels- und Entwicklungsabteilung - der TDD - ist oft der erste Schritt auf der Liste der zuk\u00fcnftigen Bergleute. Die TDD dient als Marktplatz f\u00fcr die verschiedenen Rohstoffe und andere Produkte, die an einem bestimmten Standort erh\u00e4ltlich sind, und gibt als solche ein gutes Gef\u00fchl daf\u00fcr, was gefragt ist und welche Materialien daher die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Aufmerksamkeit erfordern, um die attraktivsten Gewinnmargen zu erzielen.\n\nFreiberuflicher Bergbau im Vergleich zur T\u00e4tigkeit als Vermittler\nBei der Entscheidung \u00fcber eine Vorgehensweise hat jeder Miner zwei grundlegende M\u00f6glichkeiten - freiberuflich t\u00e4tig zu sein oder als Agent im Auftrag einer anderen Einheit. Freiberufliche Bergleute w\u00e4hlen, welche Materialien sie beschaffen wollen und machen sich nach der Entnahme auf den Weg, um den optimalen Handelshafen f\u00fcr ihre Entladung zu finden. Obwohl dieser Ansatz potenziell der lukrativste ist, setzt er die Bergleute den Unw\u00e4gbarkeiten des Marktes aus, und wenn die Nachfrage w\u00e4hrend der Beschaffung der Materialien nachl\u00e4sst, k\u00f6nnte der schlie\u00dflich erzielte Preis unzureichend sein, um den erlittenen Aufwand und die Kosten zu rechtfertigen, insbesondere wenn erhebliche Ausgaben in Form von teuren NSC-Crew-Mitgliedern, die eingesetzt wurden, Kraftstoff verbraucht wurden oder Sch\u00e4den am Schiff entstanden sind.\n\nBergleute, die im Auftrag einer anderen Gesellschaft arbeiten, entfernen das meiste Risiko aus ihrem Hauptbuch, m\u00fcssen dabei aber oft einen erheblichen Teil des Wertes ihrer Ladung aufgeben und daf\u00fcr die Leistung zu einem Festpreis einfordern. Au\u00dferdem riskieren sie einen Reputationsschaden, wenn sie nicht in der Lage sind, die versprochenen Materialien innerhalb des vorgegebenen Zeitrahmens zu beschaffen. Die vom TDD gewonnenen Informationen sind von gro\u00dfem Nutzen f\u00fcr die Beurteilung, ob der angebotene Rabatt durch die Sicherheit eines garantierten Vertrages gerechtfertigt ist.\n\nSuche nach einem geeigneten Asteroidenfeld\nSobald ein grundlegender Minenpfad - Freiberufler oder Vertrag - festgelegt ist, muss sich der Spieler Gedanken dar\u00fcber machen, wie er die gesuchten Materialien finden will. Asteroidenfelder, die Erz mit unterschiedlichem Reinheitsgrad enthalten, verunreinigen die meisten Sternensysteme, aber bevor ein Miner seinen Quantenantrieb aktiviert und sich beeilt, Wert aus der Umwelt zu gewinnen, m\u00fcssen sie Kenntnisse \u00fcber diese Felder erlangen.\n\nZu diesem Zweck enth\u00e4lt jedes Sonnensystem eine Vielzahl von Informationen, die als \u00f6ffentliches Wissen gelten, einschlie\u00dflich der Lage der wichtigsten Asteroidenfelder. Der Einsteiger beginnt seine Karriere oft damit, dass er sich auf solche bekannten Standorte begibt, aber wie zu erwarten, sind die wertvollsten Materialien in solchen Bereichen in der Regel schon lange gewonnen. Das verbleibende wertvolle Erz ist oft so d\u00fcnn auf einem riesigen Feld verteilt, dass seine Gewinnung mehr Zeit und M\u00fche erfordert, als fortgeschrittenere Bergleute bereit sind zu ertragen. Wertvolle neue Felder werden gelegentlich lokalisiert und der \u00d6ffentlichkeit bekannt gemacht, was oft zu einem dramatischen Anstieg der Bergbauaktivit\u00e4ten f\u00fchrt.... und bald darauf zu einem Preisverfall f\u00fcr die Materialien, die in ausreichender Menge auf dem Feld enthalten sind, w\u00e4hrend die Spieler sich beeilen, die frei verf\u00fcgbare Ressource zu nutzen.\n\nAlternativ k\u00f6nnen sich die Bergleute auch f\u00fcr einen Informationsbroker entscheiden, der gegen Entgelt die Standorte einer Vielzahl kleinerer, der \u00d6ffentlichkeit unbekannter Felder anbietet. W\u00e4hrend seri\u00f6sere Makler wahrheitsgem\u00e4\u00df \u00fcber die Art und Menge der Materialien berichten, die in einem bestimmten Bereich zu finden sind, gibt es einige, die daf\u00fcr bekannt sind, die in einem Bereich enthaltenen Verm\u00f6genswerte zu \u00fcbertreiben, dessen Standort sie verkaufen wollen.\n\nDie letzte und zeitaufw\u00e4ndigste Option - aber auch die potenziell lukrativste f\u00fcr diejenigen, die in der Lage sind, eine andere Disziplin zu meistern - bei der Suche nach einem Asteroidenfeld, das es zu nutzen gilt, ist, einfach als Pionier zu agieren und eine eigene zu finden. Die Pioniert\u00e4tigkeit hat sich auf den Einsatz von Weitbereichsscannern und Telemetrie-Sonden spezialisiert, um riesige Fl\u00e4chen zu scannen und Anomalien zu finden, die weitere Untersuchungen erfordern, was dazu f\u00fchrt, dass sich einige als kleine Asteroidenfelder erweisen, gelegentlich mit einem attraktiven Mix aus wertvollen Materialien, die in sie eingebettet sind. Wenn du in dieser Eigenschaft allein - und nicht als Agent im Auftrag einer anderen Entit\u00e4t - handelst, bleibt die Entdeckung von etwas nur dir bekannt. In solchen F\u00e4llen k\u00f6nnen Sie sich daf\u00fcr entscheiden, diese Informationen an einen Makler zu verkaufen - wobei der Preis von der Art und Menge der Materialien innerhalb des Feldes sowie den aktuellen Marktkursen abh\u00e4ngt -, der diese Informationen dann an andere weitergibt.\n\nDiese letzte Option - das Finden eigener Asteroidenfelder - hat eine Variante, von der wir erwarten, dass sie weit verbreitet ist. Unternehmen k\u00f6nnen automatisch private Entdeckungen untereinander austauschen, so dass das Auffinden eines Asteroidenfeldes - oder eines verfallenen Raumschiffes, das gerettet werden k\u00f6nnte, oder astronomischer Ph\u00e4nomene, die von einem angehenden Wissenschaftler untersucht werden k\u00f6nnten, und dergleichen - dazu f\u00fchren w\u00fcrde, dass sein Standort sofort anderen innerhalb dieser Organisation bekannt w\u00fcrde, aber vor dem Rest der \u00d6ffentlichkeit verborgen bleibt. Daher erwarten wir, dass viele Unternehmen eine sehr vertikal ausgerichtete und sich erg\u00e4nzende Reihe von Berufen in ihren Reihen vertreten haben werden, so dass sie den Mittelsmann bei vielen verm\u00f6gensbildenden Transaktionen effektiv ausschlie\u00dfen und mehr Wert f\u00fcr sich und ihre Komponenten behalten k\u00f6nnen.\n\nDer Orion\nDie Gewinnung von Erz aus riesigen Asteroiden erfordert einen sehr speziellen Schiffstyp. Das erste derartige Schiff, das der Gemeinschaft - ab heute \u00fcber einen Konzeptverkauf - angeboten wird, ist die Orion der Roberts Space Industries. Es erm\u00f6glicht Einzelpersonen, direkt mit den gro\u00dfen Unternehmen zu konkurrieren, die zuvor die weltraumgest\u00fctzte Bergbauindustrie kontrollierten. Es ist ein riesiges Schiff mit einer L\u00e4nge von 170 Metern und einer Vielzahl von Lagercontainern, die 16.288 Standard-Ladeeinheiten aus Erz aufnehmen k\u00f6nnen.\n\n\nBergbau-Spezialisten\nDer Bergbau unterst\u00fctzt eine Vielzahl von engagierten Spezialisten, von denen jeder eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Arbeit spielt. Wie bereits erw\u00e4hnt, ist eines der grundlegenden Ziele bei der Gestaltung der verschiedenen Berufe die Zerlegung gro\u00dfer, komplizierter Vorhaben in eine Reihe kleinerer Arbeitspl\u00e4tze, von denen jeder die Leistungsf\u00e4higkeit eines bestimmten Spielers auf einzigartige und interessante Weise testen kann. Dies ermutigt, zwingt aber nicht dazu, gemeinsam zu handeln, um gr\u00f6\u00dfere Aufgaben zu erf\u00fcllen, da du immer die M\u00f6glichkeit hast, einfach alles selbst zu machen - so ineffizient das auch sein mag - oder, was wahrscheinlicher ist, einfach NSC-Crew-Mitglieder einzustellen, die mit dir zusammenarbeiten. Es gibt viel Gedanken und M\u00fche, die in die Einstellung, Entwicklung, Simulation von Motivationen und Bewertung solcher NSC-Crew-Mitglieder gehen, aber das ist ein Thema, das am besten f\u00fcr eine weitere Diskussion \u00fcberlassen werden sollte.\n\nPilot\nDer Lotse navigiert nat\u00fcrlich das Schiff. W\u00e4hrend dies einfach klingt, ist es in der Praxis oft eine Herausforderung, da der Aufprall eines Asteroiden das Schiff eines Spielers ernsthaft besch\u00e4digen kann, und die Asteroiden mit den attraktivsten Ressourcenzusammensetzungen befinden sich oft tief in einem konzentrierten Feld. Die Piloten entscheiden abschlie\u00dfend, welcher einzelne Asteroid die sofortige Aufmerksamkeit erfordert, und w\u00e4hlen oft aus einer Reihe von m\u00f6glichen Zielen, die durch den Scanprozess identifiziert werden. Sie bestimmen auch, ob sie w\u00e4hrend des Aushubvorgangs in einer festen Position um einen Asteroiden herum bleiben oder eine aktivere Rolle \u00fcbernehmen sollen, indem sie sich allm\u00e4hlich um einen ausgew\u00e4hlten Asteroiden drehen und so dem Strahlf\u00fchrer eine bessere M\u00f6glichkeit geben, wertvolle Taschen aus vergrabenen Erzen zu finden und zu extrahieren. Viele Asteroiden sind mit gef\u00e4hrlichen Materialien gef\u00fcllt, die unter den richtigen Bedingungen den Asteroiden in St\u00fccke sprengen k\u00f6nnen, was den Wert eines guten Piloten erh\u00f6ht, der ein Schiff schnell in eine sichere Entfernung navigieren kann, selbst wenn die Warnzeit minimal ist.\n\nScan-Operator\nDer Scan-Operator ist verantwortlich f\u00fcr die Injektion von Remote Material Analysis Packages (RMAPs) in nahegelegene Asteroiden, die bei Erfolg sofort mit dem Senden von Telemetriedaten an den Piloten beginnen, und der Scan-Operator informiert sie \u00fcber die genaue Materialzusammensetzung des Asteroiden. Je nach Schiff und zugeh\u00f6riger Hardware k\u00f6nnen sich zwischen mehreren Dutzend und Hunderten von mit RMAP ausgestatteten, manuell gesteuerten Raketen auf einem Minenschiff befinden.\n\nNach Auswahl eines Asteroiden wird der Massenschwerpunkt automatisch berechnet und der Scan-Operator beginnt mit dem schrittweisen Scannen nach einem geeigneten RMAP-Einlegepunkt. Dies ist ein vielschichtiger Prozess, bei dem nach einem Abschnitt der Oberfl\u00e4chengeometrie gesucht wird, der so ausgerichtet ist, dass seine Senkrechte den Massenschwerpunkt durchquert oder irgendwo in seiner N\u00e4he. Der Bediener erh\u00e4lt eine R\u00fcckmeldung \u00fcber die Winkeldifferenz, aber letztendlich ist es seine Entscheidung, ob eine bestimmte Stelle gut genug ist oder nicht.\n\nSobald eine Einf\u00fchrstelle ausgew\u00e4hlt wurde, werden die Position und die optimale Einspritzorientierung angezeigt, und der Scanoperator kann eine mit RMAP ausgestattete Rakete starten. Das Schub- und Lenksystem des Flugk\u00f6rpers wird manuell gesteuert, mit dem Ziel, den Asteroiden punktgenau und mit der genauen Ausrichtung, die durch den vorherigen Schritt vorgegeben wurde, zu treffen. Der Abstand von der computerdefinierten Einspritzposition, die Abweichung vom optimalen Winkel, das Basismaterial des Asteroiden und die endg\u00fcltige Aufprallgeschwindigkeit bestimmen letztlich, ob eine Injektion erfolgreich ist oder nicht.\n\nEin interessanter Aspekt dieses besonderen Aufwandes ist, dass das Vertrauen des Scan-Operators eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Je optimaler der gew\u00e4hlte Anfangseinf\u00fcgepunkt - der in der Regel mehr Zeit in Anspruch nimmt - ist, desto gr\u00f6\u00dfer kann der Fehler in der nachfolgenden Lenkflugk\u00f6rperphase sein und dennoch eine erfolgreiche Einf\u00fchrung erreichen. Erfahrenere Bediener sind daher oft bereit, auch nur einen mittelm\u00e4\u00dfigen Einlegeort zu akzeptieren, so dass sie schnell zur n\u00e4chsten Stufe \u00fcbergehen k\u00f6nnen, mit dem Vertrauen, dass sie in der Lage sind, den genauen Standort mit der vorgegebenen Geschwindigkeit und dem angegebenen Winkel zu treffen, so dass sie trotzdem erfolgreich sein werden.\n\nStrahlf\u00fchrer\nDer Strahlbetreiber ist in der Regel der stellvertretende Kommandant einer Minenexpedition. Sie sind verantwortlich f\u00fcr den Einsatz der Multi-Megawatt-Minenstrahlgeneratoren, die an einem oder mehreren Roboterarmen in der N\u00e4he der Vorderseite des Schiffes befestigt sind, die Asteroiden in verdauliche St\u00fccke zerbrechen. Der Strahlf\u00fchrer hat die direkte Kontrolle \u00fcber die Ausgangsleistung und ist somit in der Lage, genau zu steuern, wie viel Energie in einen bestimmten Bereich eines Asteroiden abgegeben werden soll. Dies ist von entscheidender Bedeutung, da die Einspritzung \u00fcbersch\u00fcssiger Energie in ein fl\u00fcchtiges Material zu einer explosiven Kettenreaktion f\u00fchren kann, wobei die gesamte Zerst\u00f6rungskraft letztlich von der Art und Menge des reagierenden Materials bestimmt wird. Das Balken\u00e4quivalent eines Vorschlaghammers kann daher verwendet werden, um schnell gro\u00dfe Mengen an inerten Materialien abzubauen, aber ein Skalpell mit niedrigerer Leistung ist notwendig, wenn versucht wird, diejenigen sicher zu entfernen, die bei Vorhandensein einer ausreichenden Energie heftig reagieren k\u00f6nnen.\n\nDer exotherme Reaktionsdetektor ist eine Statusanzeige auf dem Bedienfeld des Strahlf\u00fchrers, die die Produktion \u00fcbersch\u00fcssiger Energie erkennt und darauf hinweist, dass der Bergbautr\u00e4ger in einem Teil der Materialien in unmittelbarer N\u00e4he des Strahls eine Kettenreaktion verursacht. Diese Informationen werden dem Bediener in Form eines vertikalen Balkendiagramms im Zeitverlauf dargestellt, das die Wahrscheinlichkeit pro Sekunde einer solchen Reaktion zeigt, die au\u00dfer Kontrolle ger\u00e4t und - oft in einem starken Energieschub, der riesige, gef\u00e4hrliche Scherben des Asteroiden, die auf das Schiff des Spielers fliegen, senden kann - das gesamte Material in der n\u00e4heren Umgebung verbraucht.\n\nExothermer Reaktionsdetektor\nJedes abbaubare Material hat seinen eigenen einzigartigen Parametersatz, der angibt, wie viel Energie eine bestimmte Menge absorbieren kann, wie schnell sie Energie verbrauchen kann, wie leicht sie \u00fcbersch\u00fcssige Energie auf umliegende Materialien \u00fcbertragen kann, seine Wahrscheinlichkeit der Fragmentierung bei Erreichen kritischer Werte und viele andere Dinge.\n\nDie durchschnittliche Gr\u00f6\u00dfe der Fragmente, die aus einem Asteroiden als Ergebnis der Verwendung eines Mining-Baums geschnitzt wurden, h\u00e4ngt dann von der H\u00f6he der Wattzahl ab, die der Strahl in den K\u00f6rper einspritzt, sowie von der Art der Materialien, in welche die Energie geleitet wird.\n\nWenn Fragmente aus dem Stammk\u00f6rper herausgerissen werden, erzeugen sie seismische Ersch\u00fctterungen, die durch den Asteroiden hindurchschwingen und sich erst allm\u00e4hlich aufl\u00f6sen. Einige fl\u00fcchtige Stoffe reagieren empfindlich auf solche Vibrationen, und als solche ist es oft von erheblicher Bedeutung, das Ausma\u00df solcher Ersch\u00fctterungen zu minimieren. Erschwert wird dies jedoch dadurch, dass solche Ersch\u00fctterungen unabh\u00e4ngig voneinander modelliert werden, wobei die durch die \u00dcberlagerung der Wellen verursachte Gesamtverschiebung st\u00e4ndig gegen die verschiedenen Materialien innerhalb des Asteroiden aufgebracht wird. So k\u00f6nnen selbst eine Reihe von kleinen Ersch\u00fctterungen eine ernsthafte Bedrohung darstellen, je nachdem, wie die Wellen sich gegenseitig beeinflussen.\n\nLaser-Seismometer\nDas Laserseismometer zeigt jeden einzelnen Tremor innerhalb eines Asteroiden sowie die \u00dcberlagerung der verschiedenen Wellen. Es zeigt auch die Schwingungsschwellen f\u00fcr alle seismisch empfindlichen Materialien im Asteroiden, vorausgesetzt, dass ein RMAP erfolgreich injiziert wurde. Explosionen, die als Folge eines seismischen Ereignisses auftreten, sind oft wesentlich gef\u00e4hrlicher als Kettenreaktionen, die eine Menge an Material in einem lokalisierten Bereich verbrauchen, weil sie dazu f\u00fchren, dass das gesamte Material innerhalb des gesamten Asteroiden detoniert, was oft zur vollst\u00e4ndigen Zerst\u00f6rung des Asteroiden f\u00fchrt und eine ausgepr\u00e4gte Gefahr f\u00fcr jedes Minenschiff darstellt, das zu diesem Zeitpunkt ungl\u00fccklicherweise in unmittelbarer N\u00e4he ist. Gl\u00fccklicherweise werden solche Ereignisse oft im Voraus telegrafiert, indem die seismische Aktivit\u00e4t nach und nach unregelm\u00e4\u00dfiger wird und winzige Materialtaschen vorzeitig explodieren und die Aussto\u00dfung kleiner Teile des Asteroiden in den Weltraum verursachen.\n\nHochverdichtete Gaskammern, die in einem Asteroiden vergraben sind, stellen eine weitere eindeutige Gefahr f\u00fcr einen Bergbau dar. Die Exposition auch nur eines kleinen Teils einer Gaskapsel gegen\u00fcber dem Vakuum des Weltraums f\u00fchrt zu einer sofortigen explosiven Dekompression, die in der N\u00e4he von Abschnitten des Asteroiden splittern, Astronauten durch den Weltraum schicken und erhebliche seismische Turbulenzen erzeugen kann.\n\nProzessor f\u00fcr analytische Materialien\nDer Mining-Beam ist mit einer hochenergetischen Scanning-Sonde namens Analytical Materials Processor ausgestattet, die eine st\u00e4ndige R\u00fcckmeldung dar\u00fcber liefert, welche Art von Materialien unter der Oberfl\u00e4che - innerhalb des Bereichs der Sonde - in der angegebenen Richtung liegen. Jedes identifizierte Material wird in einem horizontalen Balkendiagramm mit Informationen \u00fcber die Tiefe, in der es gefunden werden kann, und die ungef\u00e4hre Menge dargestellt.\n\nFrachtf\u00fchrer\nDer Frachtf\u00fchrer verwendet eine Konsole auf der Br\u00fccke des Schiffes, die es ihm erm\u00f6glicht, eine Kamera zu \u00fcberwachen, die im nach vorne gerichteten Eingangsport montiert ist. Von diesem Aussichtspunkt aus kann der Frachtbetreiber den Aufprallbereich des Mining-Baums sowie die verschiedenen Asteroidenfragmente sehen, die vom Stammk\u00f6rper getrennt und in den Raum ausgesto\u00dfen werden. Der Eingangsport enth\u00e4lt einen leistungsstarken Brecher, der ankommende Asteroidenfragmente schnell in Schutt und Asche zerlegt und in angeh\u00e4ngten Frachtmodulen f\u00fcr den Transport oder, auf Schiffen mit integrierter Raffinerie, f\u00fcr die Weiterverarbeitung zu ihren gereinigten elementaren Formen speichert.\n\nDer Frachtbetreiber lenkt einen Zielmarkierungscursor auf interessierende Fragmente, wobei ein integrierter Fragmentscanner - \u00e4hnlich dem vom Strahlbetreiber verwendeten Analytical Materials Processor - ein sofortiges Feedback \u00fcber die genaue Zusammensetzung des Fragments liefert. Auf diese Weise erh\u00e4lt der Bediener einen schnellen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber den relativen Wert des Fragments und dar\u00fcber, ob es sich lohnt, es in den Eingangsport zu leiten, oder ob es so wenig Wert enth\u00e4lt, dass es am besten vermieden wird, um wertvollen Laderaum oder zeitaufwendigen Raffinationsaufwand zu sparen. Der Fragmentscanner zeigt auch die Masse, Trajektorie und Geschwindigkeit des Objekts an.\n\nDer Frachtbetreiber steuert Attraktor- und Repulsorstrahlgeneratoren, die typischerweise direkt innerhalb oder au\u00dferhalb des Eingangsports montiert sind, und die Gr\u00f6\u00dfe der von jedem erzeugten Kraft kann pr\u00e4zise gesteuert werden, um eine komplizierte \u00c4nderung und Kontrolle der Trajektorie eines Fragments zu erm\u00f6glichen. Das Display des Frachtf\u00fchrers erm\u00f6glicht einen Zoom mit variabler Vergr\u00f6\u00dferung, was notwendig ist, da attraktive und absto\u00dfende Kr\u00e4fte genau an der Stelle aufgebracht werden, die durch den Zielcursor angegeben ist. Die Anwendung von Kraft auf die Extremit\u00e4t eines Fragments f\u00fchrt dann typischerweise dazu, dass eine Rotation auf dem Objekt erzeugt wird und nicht eine signifikante \u00c4nderung seiner Richtung. Daher ist viel Geschicklichkeit erforderlich - einschlie\u00dflich der F\u00e4higkeit, den ungef\u00e4hren Schwerpunkt eines Objekts schnell zu sch\u00e4tzen -, um Kr\u00e4fte effizient einzusetzen und Fragmente auf dem gew\u00fcnschten Weg zu f\u00fchren.\n\nRaffineriebetreiber\nDie Position des Raffineriebetreibers besteht nur auf Bergbauschiffen, die eine integrierte Raffinerie enthalten. Raffinerien erm\u00f6glichen die schrittweise Umwandlung von Roherz in ihre gereinigte Komponentenform, wobei die unerw\u00fcnschten Elemente in Form von Staub wieder in den Raum zur\u00fcckgeworfen werden. Gereinigte Materialien verbrauchen einen kleinen Bruchteil des Lagerraums ihrer unraffinierten Pendants, was besonders problematisch ist, wenn es sich um Asteroidenfelder minderer Qualit\u00e4t handelt, die nur in stark diffuser Form wertvolle Elemente besitzen, oder wenn versucht wird, die Anzahl der R\u00fcckfahrten zu einem Handels- oder Lagerort zu minimieren. Der Raffineriebetreiber steuert die Weiterleitung von Erzen an eine Vielzahl von spezialisierten Verarbeitungseinheiten, von denen jede eine unterschiedliche Rolle bei der Trennung eines Materials vom anderen spielt. Bedienungsfehler im Veredelungsprozess k\u00f6nnen dazu f\u00fchren, dass empfindliche Ger\u00e4te ausfallen, den Umwandlungsprozess verz\u00f6gern und wertvolle Zeit kosten, bis der betroffene Gegenstand ersetzt wird, typischerweise durch ein \u00fcbersch\u00fcssiges Teil, das im Schiffsbestand gelagert ist.\n\nAlle der oben genannten spezialisierten Positionen k\u00f6nnen entweder von einem Spieler oder einem NSC geleitet werden, wobei erfahrenere NSCs ihre Aufgaben in \u00fcberlegener Weise erf\u00fcllen, aber in der Regel auf Kosten eines h\u00f6heren Monatsgehalts.\n\nVerkaufen Sie Ihre Fracht\nDer letzte Schritt im Mining-Prozess ist die Umwandlung Ihres sorgf\u00e4ltig gesammelten Erzes oder veredelten Materials in eine Bezahlung f\u00fcr Ihre Bem\u00fchungen.\n\nWenn Sie einen Job angenommen haben, werden Sie zu dem Agenten zur\u00fcckkehren wollen, der Sie eingestellt hat, und die Transaktion abschlie\u00dfen, was dazu f\u00fchrt, dass Ihrem Konto der versprochene Betrag gutgeschrieben wird und Ihr Ruf f\u00fcr die erfolgreiche Erf\u00fcllung der Aufgabe steigt. Der Agent kauft nur die spezifische Art und Menge der Materialien, die Sie versprochen haben zu liefern, aber, so dass Sie wahrscheinlich zum lokalen TDD gehen wollen, um \u00fcbersch\u00fcssige Materialien in Credits umzuwandeln.\n\nF\u00fcr Spieler, die sich f\u00fcr die T\u00e4tigkeit als freiberufliche Bergleute entschieden haben, ist der Weg oft etwas weniger klar. Verschiedene TDDs in verschiedenen Landezonen k\u00f6nnen dramatisch unterschiedliche Preise anbieten, so dass Sie oft ein wenig Sorgfaltspflicht betreiben und sicherstellen m\u00f6chten, dass Sie kein Geld auf dem Tisch liegen lassen, indem Sie schnell akzeptieren, was auch immer in der n\u00e4chsten Landezone angeboten wird. Die wirklich signifikanten Ergebnisse werden jedoch oft dadurch erzielt, dass ein gemeinsames Material von begrenztem Wert in einem Sternensystem extrahiert und dann zu einem anderen transportiert wird, wo es in K\u00fcrze verf\u00fcgbar ist und die Preise viel h\u00f6her sind. Es ist Ihre Entscheidung, ob Sie ausschlie\u00dflich als Miner arbeiten wollen, oder ob Sie als Transportfrachter doppelte Aufgaben \u00fcbernehmen wollen, indem Sie Ihre eigene wertvolle Fracht durch die Galaxie schleppen, und ob die Risiken, denen Sie dabei ausgesetzt sind - wenn Sie sich einem Gebiet n\u00e4hern, in dem Ihr Material hoch gesch\u00e4tzt wird, werden Sie ein viel verlockenderes Ziel - durch den reicheren potenziellen Zahltag gerechtfertigt sind.\n\nEine letzte Option, die einige Miner vielleicht unternehmen m\u00f6chten, betrifft die Spekulation. Wenn Sie zum Spielen neigen, bieten einige Landezonen Speicherpl\u00e4tze, die Sie monatlich kaufen k\u00f6nnen. Anstatt Ihre Ladung sofort zu verkaufen, sollten Sie sie behalten, mit der Hoffnung oder Erwartung, dass - vielleicht als Folge von Aktionen, die Sie mit Hilfe Ihrer Organisation planen - die Preise in naher Zukunft deutlich steigen k\u00f6nnten.\n\n\n\"Letztendlich geht es bei Star Citizen darum - jeder Spieler trifft seine eigenen, einzigartigen Entscheidungen, wie er bei jedem Schritt vorgehen will.\"\n","zh_CN":"Sic itur ad astra. by Tony Zurovec, Director, Persistent Universe\n\nStar Citizen\u2019s ultimate objective is to present players with a vast, incredibly detailed universe where everyone can forge their own unique path through the stars. To that end, we\u2019re going to great lengths to ensure that \u2013 whatever your interest \u2013 there\u2019s an enormous amount of things for you to do and obstacles to overcome.\n\nStar Citizen will support a diverse set of occupations, each with its own unique set of challenges and rewards. However, there is no artificial concept of a character having to select a specific profession or character progression based upon gradually incrementing numeric attributes. The only thing that dictates your success or failure at a given endeavor are the actual capabilities of you and your companions and the equipment you bring to bear.\n\nThe first of several occupations we\u2019ll be aiming to detail over the ensuing months is mining. In many ways, it is representative of the basic design goals for all of the occupations within Star Citizen.\n\nMining presents players with a variety of challenges requiring skill and intelligence, whereas mindless repetition of a task and idle drudgery are explicitly avoided. There are no aspects of mining that allow a player to simply press a button and wait without concern for a result, or that require players to perform an action repeatedly without some element of thought and\/or dexterity coming into play.\n\nAmple amounts of dangerous situations are afforded, despite the fact that combat isn\u2019t inherent in any fundamental aspect of the effort. The most valuable materials will often reside deep within a dense field, the result of less experienced pilots being unable to extricate them without suffering serious damage to their ship. Compressed pockets of gas, volatile materials that can explode in the presence of excessive energy (which is required in some capacity in order to liberate the ore from its parent asteroid), and elements that can explode when subjected to seismic vibrations as caused by repeated fragmentation operations all present their own unique types of jeopardy. While most miners will seek to actively avoid armed conflict, the reality is that any ship carrying a cargo of valuable ore will present a tempting target to less scrupulous types, rewarding those players that formulate contingency plans in advance, whether that be the hiring of an NPC crew member extremely talented with a defense turret, or investing a portion of the expected profits into hiring an armed escort or two.\n\nFinally, multiple roles of substance are presented, each of which is referred to as a specialist. Every role can occupy the full attention of a player and present sufficient challenge to keep them engaged, or assigned to an NPC whose skills are commensurate with their monthly cost.\n\nThe Trade and Development Division\nA trip to the local Trade and Development Division \u2013 the TDD \u2013 is often the first step on a prospective miner\u2019s list. The TDD serves as a marketplace for the various commodities and other products available at a given location, and as such gives a good sense of what\u2019s in demand and therefore which materials warrant the most attention in terms of obtaining the most attractive profit margins.\n\nFreelance Mining Versus Working as an Agent\nWhen deciding upon a course of action, every miner has two basic options \u2013 working freelance or acting as an agent in the employ of another entity. Freelance miners elect which materials they want to procure and, after retrieval, set out to find the optimal trading port at which to unload them. While potentially the most lucrative, this approach exposes miners to the vagaries of the market, and if demand wanes during the acquisition of the materials the price eventually obtained might be insufficient to have warranted the effort and expense endured, especially if significant expenses were suffered in the form of costly NPC crew members having been utilized, fuel having been expended, or damage to the ship having occurred.\n\nMiners working under contract for another entity remove most of the risk from their ledger, but in so doing often have to give up a significant portion of their cargo\u2019s value in exchange for the benefit locking in a fixed price. Further, they risk a hit to their reputation if they are unable to procure the promised materials within the specified timeframe. The information gleaned from the TDD is of significant benefit in ascertaining whether the discount being offered is warranted by the security of a guaranteed contract.\n\nFinding a Suitable Asteroid Field\nOnce a basic mining path \u2013 freelance or contract \u2013 has been decided upon a player must put some thought into how they wish to locate the sought-after materials. Asteroid fields containing ore of varying purity levels litter most star systems, but prior to a miner engaging their quantum drive and making haste to begin extracting value from the environment, they must gain knowledge of those fields.\n\nTo this end, every solar system contains a variety of information considered public knowledge, including the location of major asteroid fields. The entry-level miner often begins their career via heading towards such well-known sites, but as would be expected the most valuable materials in such fields have typically long since been extracted. The remaining ore of value is often spread so thinly throughout a vast field that its retrieval requires more time and effort than more advanced miners are willing to endure. Valuable new fields are occasionally located and made known to the public, often resulting in a dramatic increase in mining activity\u2026and soon thereafter a drop in prices on those materials contained in ample quantity within the field as players rush to exploit the freely available resource.\n\nAlternatively, miners may elect to employ the services of an information broker who, for a price, will offer the locations of a variety of smaller fields unknown to the public. While more reputable brokers will truthfully report the type and quantity of materials to be found within a particular field, there are some who have been known to exaggerate the assets contained within a field whose location they are seeking to sell.\n\nThe last and most time-consuming option \u2013 but also potentially the most lucrative for those able to master another discipline \u2013 in terms of finding an asteroid field to exploit is to simply act as a Pioneer and find your own. The Pioneer occupation specializes in the utilization of long range scanners and telemetry probes to scan huge swaths of space and find anomalies that warrant further investigation, with the end result that some turn out to be small fields of asteroids, occasionally with an attractive mix of valuable materials embedded within them. When acting in such capacity on your own \u2013 and not as an agent in the employ of another entity \u2013 the discovery of something remains known only to you. In such cases, you may elect to sell such information to a broker \u2013 with the price being dictated by the type and quantity of materials within the field, as well as the current market rates \u2013 who would then offer that information to others.\n\nThis last option \u2013 finding your own asteroid fields \u2013 has one variation that we expect to see widely utilized. Organizations may automatically share private discoveries amongst themselves, such that finding an asteroid field \u2013 or a derelict spaceship that could be salvaged, or astronomical phenomena that might be studied by an aspiring scientist, and other such things \u2013 would result in its location immediately becoming known to others within that organization but remaining hidden from the rest of the public. Thus, we expect that many organizations will wind up having a very vertically oriented and complementary set of occupations represented within its ranks, such that it can effectively cut out the middle man in many wealth-generating transactions and retain more value for itself and its constituents.\n\nThe Orion\nThe extraction of ore from huge asteroids requires a very specialized type of ship. The first such ship to be offered to the community \u2013 via a concept sale starting today \u2013 is the Roberts Space Industries\u2019 Orion. It allows individuals to directly compete with the major corporations that previously controlled the space-based mining industry. It\u2019s a huge ship, measuring 170 meters in length, and containing a variety of storage containers capable of holding 16,288 standard cargo units of ore.\n\nMining Specialists\nThe mining occupation supports a variety of dedicated specialists, each of which has a critical role to play in the effort. As previously noted, one of the basic objectives in the design of the various occupations is breaking down large, complicated endeavors into a number of smaller jobs, each of which can test a dedicated player\u2019s mettle in unique and interesting ways. This encourages but does not force players to act in concert with one another to accomplish larger tasks, as you\u2019ll always have the option of simply doing it all yourself \u2013 however inefficient that might be \u2013 or, more likely, simply hiring NPC crew members to work alongside you. There\u2019s a lot of thought and effort going into the hiring, evolution, simulation of motivations, and evaluation of such NPC crew members, but that\u2019s a topic best left for another discussion.\n\nPilot\nThe pilot, of course, navigates the ship. While this sounds straightforward, in practice it is often challenging as impacting an asteroid can seriously damage a player\u2019s ship, and the asteroids with the most attractive resource compositions are often deep within a concentrated field. Pilots make the final call as to which individual asteroid warrants the most immediate attention, often choosing from an array of possible targets identified via the scanning process. They also determine whether to remain in a fixed position around an asteroid throughout the excavation process or to adopt a more active role, gradually rotating around a selected asteroid and thus giving the beam operator a better opportunity to find and extract valuable pockets of buried ore. Many asteroids are filled with dangerous materials that, under the right conditions, can blow the asteroid to pieces, increasing the value of a good pilot that can quickly navigate a ship to a safe distance even when the warning time is minimal.\n\nScan operator\nThe scan operator is responsible for injecting remote material analysis packages (RMAPs) into nearby asteroids that, upon success, immediately begin sending telemetry data back to the pilot and scan operator informing them as to the asteroid\u2019s precise material composition. Depending upon the ship and its associated hardware, anywhere from several dozen to hundreds of RMAP-equipped manually guided missiles may reside upon a mining vessel.\n\nUpon selection of an asteroid, the center of mass is automatically calculated and the scan operator begins the process of gradually scanning for a suitable RMAP insertion point. This is a multi-faceted process involving a search for a section of surface geometry oriented such that its perpendicular traverses the center of mass or somewhere close to it. The operator receives feedback on the angular difference, but it\u2019s ultimately their call as to whether a given site is good enough or not.\n\nOnce an insertion site has been selected, the location and optimal injection orientation are displayed, and the scan operator may launch an RMAP-equipped missile. The missile\u2019s thrust and guidance system are manually controlled, with the objective being to impact the asteroid at the precise point and with the exact orientation dictated via the previous step. The distance from the computer-specified injection position, deviation from the optimal angle, base material of the asteroid, and final impact velocity ultimately determine whether an injection is successful or not.\n\nOne interesting aspect of this particular effort is that the confidence of the scan operator plays a significant role. The more optimal the initial insertion point selected \u2013 which typically takes more time to achieve \u2013 the larger the error can be in the subsequent missile guidance stage and still achieve a successful insertion. More skilled operators, therefore, will often be willing to accept even a mediocre insertion site so that they may quickly proceed to the next stage, confident in their ability to hit the precise location at the specified speed and angle such that they\u2019ll still be able to achieve success.\n\nBeam operator\nThe beam operator is typically the second-in-command of a mining expedition. They are responsible for wielding the multi-megawatt mining beam generators affixed to one or more robotic arms near the front of the ship that fracture asteroids into digestible chunks. The beam operator has direct control over the output wattage, and is thus able to precisely control how much energy to dispense into a given area of an asteroid. This is critically important, as the injection of surplus energy into a volatile material can cause an explosive chain reaction to occur, with the total destructive force ultimately determined by the type and amount of reacting material. The beam equivalent of a sledgehammer, therefore, can be used to quickly excavate large quantities of inert materials, but a lower-wattage scalpel will be necessary when attempting to safely extricate those that may react violently in the presence of sufficient energy.\n\nThe Exothermic Reaction Detector is a status display on the beam operator\u2019s control panel that detects the production of excess energy indicative of the fact that the mining beam is causing a chain reaction in some portion of the materials in close proximity to the beam. This information is presented to the operator in the form of a vertical bar graph plotted over time showing the probability per second of such a reaction growing out of control and consuming \u2013 often in a powerful burst of energy that can send huge, dangerous shards of the asteroid flying towards the player\u2019s ship \u2013 all of the material in the nearby area.\n\nExothermic Reaction Detector\nEvery minable material has its own unique set of parameters dictating how much energy a given quantity can absorb, how quickly it can dissipate energy, how easily it can transfer excess energy to surrounding materials, its probability of fragmentation as energy levels reach critical levels, and numerous other things.\n\nThe average size of the fragments carved from an asteroid as the result of a mining beam being utilized, then, depend upon the amount of wattage the beam is injecting into the body, as well as the type of materials into which the energy is being directed.\n\nAs fragments are torn asunder from the parent body, they generate seismic tremors that resonate throughout the asteroid and only gradually dissipate. Some volatile materials are sensitive to such vibrations, and as such minimizing the magnitude of any such tremors is often of considerable concern. This is complicated, however, by the fact that such tremors are modeled independently of one another, with the sum total displacement caused by the superposition of the waves constantly being applied against the various materials within the asteroid. Thus, even a series of small tremors can present a serious threat depending upon how the waves interfere with one another.\n\nLaser Seismometer\nThe Laser Seismometer shows each individual tremor within an asteroid, as well as the superposition of the various waves. It also shows the vibrational thresholds for any seismically sensitive materials contained within the asteroid, assuming that an RMAP has been successfully injected. Explosions that occur as the result of a seismic event are often considerably more dangerous than chain reactions that consume a quantity of material in a localized area because they will cause all such material within the entire asteroid to detonate, with the end result often being the complete destruction of the asteroid, and a pronounced danger to any mining ship unfortunate enough to be in close proximity at the time. Fortunately, such events are often telegraphed in advance via seismic activity growing progressively more erratic and tiny pockets of material prematurely detonating and causing the ejection of small sections of the asteroid into space.\n\nHighly compressed pockets of gas buried within an asteroid present another distinct danger to a mining operation. Exposure of even a small portion of a gas pocket to the vacuum of space results in an immediate explosive decompression that can splinter nearby sections of the asteroid, send astronauts hurtling through space, and generate considerable seismic turbulence.\n\nAnalytical Materials Processor\nThe mining beam is equipped with a high-energy scanning probe called the Analytical Materials Processor that provides constant feedback as to what type of materials lie beneath the surface \u2013 within range of the probe \u2013 in the specified direction. Each material identified is presented on a horizontal bar graph replete with information regarding the depth at which it can be found and the approximate quantity.\n\nCargo operator\nThe cargo operator utilizes a console on the bridge of the ship that allows them to monitor a camera mounted within the forward-facing input port. From that vantage point the cargo operator can view the impact area of the mining beam, as well as the various asteroid fragments that are broken apart from the parent body and ejected out into space. The input port contains a powerful crusher that quickly reduces any incoming asteroid fragments to rubble and stores them in attached cargo modules for transport or, on ships with an integrated refinery, subsequent processing into their purified elemental forms.\n\nThe cargo operator directs a targeting cursor towards fragments of interest, with an integrated Fragment Scanner \u2013 similar to the Analytical Materials Processor utilized by the beam operator \u2013 providing immediate feedback in regard to the fragment\u2019s precise composition. In this manner, the operator is able to get a quick sense as to the relative value of the fragment, and whether it is worth attempting to guide it into the input port, or whether it contains so little of value that it\u2019s best avoided so as to preserve precious cargo space or time-consuming refining effort. The Fragment Scanner also displays the object\u2019s mass, trajectory, and velocity.\n\nThe cargo operator controls attractor and repulsor beam generators typically mounted just within or outside the input port, and the magnitude of the force generated by each can be precisely controlled so as to allow for intricate modification and control of a fragment\u2019s trajectory. The cargo operator\u2019s display allows for a variable magnification zoom, which is necessary since attractive and repulsive forces are applied at the precise location denoted by the target cursor. Application of force to a fragment\u2019s extremity, then, will typically result in generating a rotation on the object rather than any significant change in its direction. Thus, considerable skill \u2013 including the ability to quickly estimate an object\u2019s approximate center of mass \u2013 is required in order to efficiently apply forces and guide fragments along the desired path.\n\nRefinery operator\nThe position of refinery operator only exists on mining ships that contain an integrated refinery. Refineries allow raw ore to be gradually converted into their purified component forms, with the undesirable elements being ejected back out into space in the form of dust. Purified materials consume a small fraction of the storage space of their unrefined counterparts, which is of particular concern when dealing with low quality asteroid fields that possess valuable elements only in a highly diffused form, or when attempting to minimize the number of return trips back to a trading or storage facility. The refinery operator controls the routing of ore to a variety of specialized processing units, each of which has a different role to play in the separation of one material from another. Operator errors in the refinement process can cause sensitive equipment to fail, stalling the conversion process and costing valuable time until the affected item is replaced, typically with a surplus part stored in the ship\u2019s inventory.\n\nAll of the aforementioned specialist positions may be helmed by either a player or an NPC, with more experienced NPCs performing their duties in superior fashion, but usually at the expense of demanding a higher monthly salary.\n\nSelling Your Cargo\nThe final step in the mining process is converting your meticulously collected ore or refined materials into payment for your efforts.\n\nIf you accepted a job, you\u2019ll want to return to the agent that hired you and complete the transaction, resulting in your account being credited for the promised amount and a bump in your reputation for successfully completing the task. The agent will only purchase the specific type and quantity of materials that you promised to deliver, though, so you\u2019ll likely want to head to the local TDD to convert any surplus materials into credits.\n\nFor players that elected to operate as freelance miners, the path is often a bit less clear. Different TDDs at different landing zones may offer dramatically different prices, so you\u2019ll often want to do a bit of due diligence and ensure that you\u2019re not leaving any money on the table by quickly accepting whatever\u2019s being offered at the closest landing zone. The really significant scores, though, are often made by extracting a common material of limited value in one star system, and then transporting it to another where it\u2019s in shortly supply and the prices are much higher. It\u2019s your choice as to whether you want to operate exclusively as a miner, or do double duty as a transport freighter by lugging your own valuable cargo across the galaxy, and whether the risks you\u2019ll face in that endeavor \u2013 as you get ever closer to an area where your material is highly valued, you\u2019ll become a much more tempting target \u2013 are justified by the richer potential payday.\n\nOne last option that some miners might wish to undertake is related to speculation. If you\u2019re inclined to gamble, some landing zones will offer storage facilities that you can purchase on a monthly basis. Rather than selling your cargo immediately, you might wish to hold on to it, with the hope or expectation that \u2013 perhaps as a result of actions you\u2019re planning to initiate with the aid of your organization \u2013 prices might rise significantly in the near future.\n\n\u201cUltimately, that\u2019s what Star Citizen is all about \u2013 every player making their own unique decisions as to how they want to proceed at every step of the way.\u201d \u2003"},"links_count":2,"comment_count":393,"created_at":"2015-02-21T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-14 16:21:12","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14521,"next_id":14524}}