This is why I love playing as a new commander (I deleted my 18 months of progress when 2.1 dropped).
I am currently in Naunin, helping the Wolves of Jonai in their Community Goal.....& am learning the hard way which ships are better at mining (I learned the hard way that I shouldn't have "upgraded" from an Adder to a Viper, for starters
). Other than that, I am *loving* mining.....can't believe I never did it in my former life!
So I am at the innermost ring of Naunin A4, collecing gold into my "all too small" cargo hold, when I suddenly get a "Mission Critical Update". "Odd", I think, as I don't have any current missions. So I check my inbox, & find that the controlling faction of this system has *offered* me a job, finding some missing structural regulators. I have a whole day to do the job, so decide to take it. I do think its *really* cool how you can get missions away from the mission board, though, & I hope it is something they further expand upon.
I finally fill up my cargo rack (with 8t of gold.....pffft ), & decide to head to the Low RES for a bit of bounty hunting before heading "back to the barn". Almost bit off more than I could chew, though, when I took on a Master NPC in a Viper MkIV (my Viper MkIII was kitted out for mining, not combat). Anyway, with the help of security, I was finally able to take him down....though not after a long slog and a fair bit of damage to my ship (had no point defense....oops).
So I get back to McLeod Hub and turn in my gold & my bounty-earning myself almost 150,000Cr (trust me, as a "new" pilot that's a lot of money) & Cordial relations with the controlling faction. I then installed chaff and point defense before heading out to the local Nav Beacon.
I got interdicted by a cocky, harmless NPC in a DB Scout. I was prepared to make short work of him, but when I deployed my burst lasers, my thrusters and life support shut down.....oops! Things got a bit tense as he stripped my shields whilst I tried to figure out which modules I could safely shut down to restore my critical systems.
Fortunately a lone security vessel came to my assistance, & we were able to consign this guy's ashes to the void.
I was able to get to the Nav Beacon without further incident.
I then scanned the nav beacon, & ascertained that what I was looking for was last seen around Naunin A3. So I quickly headed out there, just as a "to do" was starting around the Nav Beacon. However, when I got to Naunin A3, I learned that the items were on the planet's surface....so I had to head back to the station & outfit my ship with a bay for a planetary vehicle.
Then, with vehicle in tow, I narrowed down the location of the supply dump within which the items were located, then used my wave scanner to further pinpoint the location (sadly driving past another Point of Interest En Route).
I found what I was looking for, plus a couple of cannisters of computer components for good measure. Then, just as I got aboard my ship, I get a mission critical update saying that I will get a nice fat bonus if I can get the stuff back to them in only 5 minutes. Well I thought that was going to be impossible, but I actually managed it with about 1 minute in hand.
So what started off as a night devoted to mining actually turned into a highly varied learning experience.
Apologies for the long post, but it was just something I wanted to share!
I am currently in Naunin, helping the Wolves of Jonai in their Community Goal.....& am learning the hard way which ships are better at mining (I learned the hard way that I shouldn't have "upgraded" from an Adder to a Viper, for starters
). Other than that, I am *loving* mining.....can't believe I never did it in my former life!So I am at the innermost ring of Naunin A4, collecing gold into my "all too small" cargo hold, when I suddenly get a "Mission Critical Update". "Odd", I think, as I don't have any current missions. So I check my inbox, & find that the controlling faction of this system has *offered* me a job, finding some missing structural regulators. I have a whole day to do the job, so decide to take it. I do think its *really* cool how you can get missions away from the mission board, though, & I hope it is something they further expand upon.
I finally fill up my cargo rack (with 8t of gold.....pffft
), & decide to head to the Low RES for a bit of bounty hunting before heading "back to the barn". Almost bit off more than I could chew, though, when I took on a Master NPC in a Viper MkIV (my Viper MkIII was kitted out for mining, not combat). Anyway, with the help of security, I was finally able to take him down....though not after a long slog and a fair bit of damage to my ship (had no point defense....oops).So I get back to McLeod Hub and turn in my gold & my bounty-earning myself almost 150,000Cr (trust me, as a "new" pilot that's a lot of money) & Cordial relations with the controlling faction. I then installed chaff and point defense before heading out to the local Nav Beacon.
I got interdicted by a cocky, harmless NPC in a DB Scout. I was prepared to make short work of him, but when I deployed my burst lasers, my thrusters and life support shut down.....oops! Things got a bit tense as he stripped my shields whilst I tried to figure out which modules I could safely shut down to restore my critical systems.
Fortunately a lone security vessel came to my assistance, & we were able to consign this guy's ashes to the void.
I was able to get to the Nav Beacon without further incident.
I then scanned the nav beacon, & ascertained that what I was looking for was last seen around Naunin A3. So I quickly headed out there, just as a "to do" was starting around the Nav Beacon. However, when I got to Naunin A3, I learned that the items were on the planet's surface....so I had to head back to the station & outfit my ship with a bay for a planetary vehicle.
Then, with vehicle in tow, I narrowed down the location of the supply dump within which the items were located, then used my wave scanner to further pinpoint the location (sadly driving past another Point of Interest En Route).
I found what I was looking for, plus a couple of cannisters of computer components for good measure. Then, just as I got aboard my ship, I get a mission critical update saying that I will get a nice fat bonus if I can get the stuff back to them in only 5 minutes. Well I thought that was going to be impossible, but I actually managed it with about 1 minute in hand.
So what started off as a night devoted to mining actually turned into a highly varied learning experience.
Apologies for the long post, but it was just something I wanted to share!
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