Bucket-wheel excavator

this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator

i thought this was already planned its the next stage up from the big excavator

This is NOT an up-gunned excavator...it's an atom bomb of an excavator. I can see this late-game but TBH I'm not sure an island rates something THIS big. Maybe a size or two down from here? A bigger excavator is a good idea but nothing this big.
Unless we can travel to a new island...

Would be cool to build a huge Bucket Wheel Excavator like the Bagger 288. Make it where it can move forward very slowly to mine out very large areas!

Guess this has already been suggested. That just means it needs to be a thing!

It's all in the title, of course with Captain of industry sauce

Well for that we would need maps like 5x size

I can see this as a top-tier thing. It would be a HUGE investment but you'd only need one per mining site!

This would be awesome. Mine with electricity and belts rather than vehicles. (Yeah, I cry over every drop of diesel burned on my island.)

Crazy stuff. one turn and all my starages are full. 10 minutes mining and even the C iland recorces are gone. you would need recorce areas bigg as some maps are to make this a resonable thing.
Unless you find mines on seesize where you can build up another infrastructure to mine down with this Bucket weel excavators. them properly need be attachable to belts and the belts itself would need to ran fast and canstantly. a Spoon excavatar would be more a thing.. also dynamit mining for limestone for better realism. I sometimes sit there and glaring at the tiny excavatar slowly dig in it tiny steal shovel into the hard stone XD

Those are the largest land machines and I find them awe-inspiring. Also they are a huge part of modern mining operations. I would love to see them in this game.

This would be very awesome. And in that case give the mining tower a belt output, because real life bucket wheelers work with conveyors.

If we do get this (and the mechanics are actually possible...), I'd like for this to be built as a building, possibly in several parts... To be turned into a crawler like the rocket transport for movement, and turn back into a building once in place, so one can attach a conveyor belt like the real ones have.

It is a good suggestions but i think there is a big problem because of how big a bucket wheel excavator is

I doubt this would be practical but if it was added somehow it would be soo cool to see ingame.

instead of making a real to life scale one they could make it like 2:1 scale or smaller maybe

Sure would be cool, but i'm sceptical that the investment would make sense on these small islands. Throughput of the bagger is 0.24 square kilometers of materials per day which would mean that it eats the whole island within about month. Sure you could scale it down but i really don't see the point unless the map gets way bigger, like atleast x10.

They do make smaller models than just the Bagger 293, because not all mines were capable of using the really large models. The scale of BWEs varies significantly and is dependent on the intended application. Compact BWEs designed by ThyssenKrupp may have boom lengths as small as six metres (20 ft), weigh 50 tons, and move 100 m3 (3,500 cu ft) of earth per hour. you could make these more of a late game after the mega excavators.

I see no reason this should not be implemented, It was a stretch goal, so it was already planned to be added.

Hi, i mean sure they are neat looking but i wonder if any of you know what they really are or what they are employed for. Generally speaking they are not for mining minerals they are for removing large amounts of overburdon on top of minieral deposts.. think top soil and loose rock! IMHO they are not in the scope of this game!