[STOCK] Mining Platform - think Oil Rig

[selfish_meme]

So I um built this thing, it looks like an Oil Rig, it can mine resources if you are in shallow enough water, you can dock with it (I have only had it not blow up or disappear when coming within 1km a few times) possibly. The Heliport is not really big enough to land anything but a very small Helicopter/VTOL. Yeah, so there it is, makes for a nice photo if scatterer behaves. I may or may not build a contract pack for my mod (MM script) NoFuel, depending if or when I get the actual mod proper built. Where all fuel tanks are defueled on launch and you have to build the infrastructure to fuel your space program, with contracts around prospecting and supplying fuel to a nearby depot.

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[Majorjim!]

Looks great man!

 I can picture a few of these strategically placed around Kerbin for lonely seafarers to get a cup of tea and commence bunkering operations. Just remember to display that Bravo flag!

[Red Dwarf]

That's pretty neat! How well does it handle a VTOL landing on it? It'd be cool to do a dropship circumnavigation, using pitstops like those to refuel. 

[selfish_meme]

I put a harrier on it, but it's too big, you need a very small helicopter or vtol, also results vary when approaching it in a plane, sometimes it explodes violently and rises hundreds of meters in the air (I actually just missed getting squashed by it once in the Harrier), other times it just disappears, no debris or explosions, just gone. I think it depends on how your physics engine feels that day.