Currently mining lasers in the game has a very short range, and this is not too correct because if mining device suppose to be a short range it could be just a simple mining drill, but since we have lasers, we should have long range version. So here it is, long range mining lasers! Also now it can be mounted on turrets and automatically collect required ore within range! It acts like a great advanced tool for mining and should partially solve a situation with lack of fuel for large ships because mining is much easier now. A bit later this issue will be completely solved with addition of large mining devices which can be placed on large asteroids in order to extract even more ore.

CHANGE LOG

• Added long range mining laser which should be mounted on turret. Such turrets will automatically mine asteroids with desired resource within its range. Also added a possibility to select which resource you want to mine
• Damage and mining rate of all lasers no longer depends on distance to target (this feature didn't adds any interesting aspects to the gameplay, on the contrary it was confusing and non intuitive, also it turned lasers into some kind of "shotguns" which should be used from the minimal distance, that is not a desired game-style for combat lasers). Also visual effect of laser ray no longer falloff with the distance and in result it looks much better
• Lasers now activated and deactivated not instantly, but during a short time, as result its visual effect looks much better
• Lasers now will consume energy from internal power storage which will recharge over time, so now in cases when you have not enough energy, lasers will wait for full charge instead of attempt to emit thin and weak ray. Overall, combat and mining operations now looks much better in cases when ship has not enough energy

• Added possibility to setup hotkey for auto center of thrust calibration
• Text elements such as "+2 Iron ore" which appears over cargo containers now displayed only at close range
• Graphs of power monitor now hidden by default
• Xenon collector max radius in orbital mode increased from 5 to 30 (it should be much easier to use now)
• Added missing info on control panel of xenon collector
• Target of turret now visualized only on selection of module

• Critical bug with impossibility to save \ load a game with error "Position is NaN" should be fixed (but we are not sure, so let us know if you will encounter this issue again)
• Ships with activated warp drive no longer able to move inside a warp field (solved an issue when you press W during warp flight and ship explodes due contact with warp sphere)
• Fixes impossibility to load a game which was saved during warp flight
• Fixes issue when options and save load windows still visible after menu reopened with Esc button
• Fixes internal error when galaxy map opened during warp flight
• Xenon collector works again in orbital mode
• Pause on Esc now correctly works after save load