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Mining 24/7 is just a bad idea. -1
 
Everyone will abuse it and mine 24/7, using ask and bot like mechanics. Crashes the market
 
Turret automation will only lead to lone wolves, flying with their bot mined super-extreme ship. It enforces solo play
 
Bad idea
 
Plus it's completely against emergent gameplay

Not really. It will though make sure the game is not full of multiboxers and bots.


It will also not overflow the servers if an idiot wanted to make a loop do 1000000000000000000000 loops a second. You might be sayng "but scripts run on the client's end", which is true, but the server has to receive those actions and register them.



Limited automation will keep the game tied to its core social interaction. You can have welders putting a ship together in your factory, or you can have machines that do it slower than them.


It's a risk to have people work for you and it's not a risk to have machines, but they have slower speeds than humans. It's a trade-off.

If the Dev was going for a full economics simulator game then sure automate away. But that doesn't seem like the game they are building. There still has to be reason to actually PLAY the game and not just input numbers and wait for the result.
 
Combat especially would be a HUGE mistake to automate. I mean how would that even work? You just stand near an enemy and your rifle shots and finds targets on its own...? That sounds fun?