Is there a faster way to mine crystalline formations? Holy heck that was a chore, at 30 - 40 minutes a site.
I made one interesting observation:
Gravity isn't modeled properly in Elite. On a couple of moons the shard chunks did not accelerate as fast as my SRV did from the height of their climb on the way down. On an airless moon, they should. One would expect a linear modeling of gravity at the least here, not even a more realistic progressive one from center of mass--but alas, we have neither.
I did notice that higher gravity did show a different behavior with chunks.. Usually when I blasted a deposit everything would fly into the air and slowly settle on a low gravity world. Last place I went was higher gravity around 0.6 g and when I blasted the rocks, the fragments pretty much scattered at ground level. Also noticed much less of a boost when using SRV thrusters..but wasn't able to compare the two.
