Mining Barge ability idea: FOM Missions

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Mining Barge ability idea: FOM Missions

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For when you are absolutely, positively just too lazy to do a mining mission yourself. :mrgreen:

This might take a bit of dev work, so I am expecting this to get shot down.

Active Skill: FOM Mission Authorization

This skill must be set in an unlocked skill slot. When active, it unlocks the "FOM Mission" button. Clicking this goes to a Federation of Mining mission list, but the missions are all within 200% of your barge's jump range (two jump distance max). The missions are the normal "find XX samples in asteroid field YY."

When a mission is accepted, the skill is locked until the mission is completed or abandoned (loss of XP and credits taken from captain, and cannot take new FOM mission for 12 hours).

Industrial mining mode switches to "Industrial Mining: Rare Sample Search", which takes a significant amount of system resources to search for the specific radiation signature of the needed sample. The player's top level of industrial mining is greyed out. When in FOM mode, the player looses access to his/hear top level of industrial mining, and the chance to find rare loot (crystals, salvage) is reduced by -25%. The barge stays in this mode until the FOM mission is completed or abandoned.

When the barge is mining in the target asteroid field, there is a chance of (10% + [5 x industrial mining level]%) for ever 100 units of ore mined that one of the rare samples required for the mission is found.

The number of samples scales with your FOM rank, and can require multiple rounds of mining.

When a sample is found, there is a chance of (30% + [5 x industrial mining level]%) that the barge finds "a little extra" in the form of a random gemstone or A.I. metal or mineral, or very rarely a crystal.

When enough samples are found for the mission, the mining mission complete email includes the extra line, "Your mining barge [name] has acquired enough samples to complete FOM Mission #1234567."

Upon completion, the player gets a small amount of XP, credits, and FOM standing (about 50% a similar FOM mission). The mining barge gets extra barge XP and mining points per sample, plus a flat +1 AI skill point per mission.

When complete, Industrial Mining and the loot discovery chances return to normal, until the next FOM mission.
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