Refining

[Weyoun]

Add a conveyor belt that slowly drags the minerals one at a time across the bottom and up the side and slowly deposits them to the refiner. Want your minerals faster/ all in a clump, get down there and refine, else they will trickle in. they already conveyer from the refining pad off to the right, just make the ones at the bottom of the hanger slowly conveyer themselves up to the top of the map, make sure there is a walkway next to is so you can grab minerals already on the conveyer and rush them to the refinery at the top.

[Tempest]

i actually like that a lot. you can refine normally to do it quickly when a buildup occurs, or you can let the conveyor belt do it slowly 1 at a time. This would make refining a require a tad bit less attention and would allow the crewmate to perform other tasks such as navigation or weapon defense of nearby ss.

[Weyoun]

It would make refining more interesting, you wouldn't have to just grab them from the pile but moving ones of the conveyor as well. The replicator/refining console could have an option to turn the conveyor on/off and possible an upgrade to increase the conveyor speed, or how many clumps it could grab at a time.

Small ships could also have to be manually repaired, give the guy down in the basement more to do with his time. I think it would be cool to have 'conduits' or 'eps relays' that tie into different ship systems down there that could get damaged in battle and have to be repaired. I also propose an alternate power console downstairs, make that main engineering. move the current power console options to it and make the one up stairs a more limited 'auxiliary power control' console. From the console downstairs you could add options to bypass one or two currently damaged systems through backups... just a thought.

I think it would be a blast to be in the bowls of the ship trying to keep refining operational while tending to various ship systems in a long drawn out battle while the guys up stairs are flying the ship.

If debris fell on the conveyor during combat it would halt automatic refining, it would have to be done by a player or a drone again.

[Tempest]

i disagree with the manual repairs on small ships for a variety of reasons but he conveyor belt refining at a slow steady speed i do think is nice, it would help divert full attention from refining and allow for more bc strategy.