Newcomer / Intro Looking to start mining

[darcek]

Is there a way to mine without interruption from pirates? I get the whole interdiction thing but a more peaceful chill out mining session would be nice once in a while.

I'm really fresh into mining,only 2 successful runs so far but from my experience while mining only the police "bothered" me with scans...

The pirates were waiting to interdict me Before I went inside the belt and after when I tried to reach the station to sell..thankfully was able to avoid both interdiction so far ;p

 

[Para Handy]

Is there a way to mine without interruption from pirates? I get the whole interdiction thing but a more peaceful chill out mining session would be nice once in a while.

First - don't mine in a resource extraction site.

Second - (as mentioned above) - when first arriving at the place when you will be mining, sit and wait for the inevitable pirate (or wing of three) to turn up, scan , make a derogatory remark and clear off (since they don't attack for limpets any more).

I also make sure that I move away from any other miners that have turned up, since I assume they can attract pirates. You are supposed to get higher yields per asteroid near RESs but I think that the avoidance of pirates is more important.



[alien]

 

[D.G.Cerberus]

Is there a way to mine without interruption from pirates? I get the whole interdiction thing but a more peaceful chill out mining session would be nice once in a while.

Go back to page one of this 2 page thread and read my post.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

Second - (as mentioned above) - when first arriving at the place when you will be mining, sit and wait for the inevitable pirate (or wing of three) to turn up, scan , make a derogatory remark and clear off (since they don't attack for limpets any more).

This won't always work with a pirate that has been following you in supercruise. They will sometimes attack regardless of what is in your hold, and they will sometimes also follow you far past the point where local pirates will have gone home.

It pays to always keep an eye on the long range scanner, even when you think you have safely avoided any pirates.

 

[Chris Simon]

And in the light of what L. Lizard said - my mining ship is probably the only one in my fleet with A-rated sensors.

 

[Para Handy]

This won't always work with a pirate that has been following you in supercruise. They will sometimes attack regardless of what is in your hold, and they will sometimes also follow you far past the point where local pirates will have gone home.

It pays to always keep an eye on the long range scanner, even when you think you have safely avoided any pirates.

Oh - that has never happened to me but then again I don't go mining very often so I must have just fallen lucky.

I must admit though that it seems quite funny to sit there in a fully a-rated 'conda (deadly) with your hardpoints deployed and a little "harmless" sidewinder pulls up 1k directly in front of your weapons wanting to pirate you and coming out with some sort of trash-talk, the interdiction rules of pirate ranks don't seem to be applied for non-interdicting pirates.

(As with Chris, I too always fit A class scanners when mining.)


[alien]

 

[BigBANGtheory [VR]]

Thanks for the tips, I'd like to do a bit more mining its one of those activities that adds another dimension to the game. I wish it was a bit more fleshed out and profitable I hope FDev give it some more TLC in the coming months/years. I don't mind the concept of pirates or ships protecting a resource but it just becomes a nuisance after a while, if anything a smart pirate would wait for you to fill your hold before attacking.

Do you know if it is possible to mine for Exquisite Focus Crystals? That would be an interesting goal I think...

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

Do you know if it is possible to mine for Exquisite Focus Crystals? That would be an interesting goal I think...

Mining would suddenly become rather popular

But it is a good question. Why can't we mine focus crystals?

 

[BigBANGtheory [VR]]

Even if they were uber rare having a meta mining challenge that netted you 1t of some extremely valuable material worth a small ransom (50M cr for arguments sake) would be very rewarding for the player. I guess the trick is to make sure it is not repeatable or exploitable and that you have to put some thought and work into treasure hunting or atleast narrowing down the search options for the RNG to make the final call. They'd be a few pirates on your tail then which could work too forcing you to have a ship that will survive an assault.

 

[Chris Simon]

Mining would suddenly become rather popular

But it is a good question. Why can't we mine focus crystals?

It would be really cool to be able to craft engineering commodities from materials. Focus crystals from LTDs, cooling hoses from carbon, nanobreakers from silicon and superconductors,...

*dreamy eyes*

 

[Para Handy]

................... Why can't we mine focus crystals?

I would assume it is because they have to be grown under controlled conditions like monocrystalline silicon on which our modern technology is built.


[alien]

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It would be really cool to be able to craft engineering commodities from materials. Focus crystals from LTDs, cooling hoses from carbon, nanobreakers from silicon and superconductors,...

*dreamy eyes*

Yeah - like why can't we craft heat-sink ammo but we can conjure up homing missiles?


[wacko]

 

[NeilF]

I'm going to shamelessy plug the suggestion for procedural distrubution maps for surface/ring mining, as well as the even more important suggestion of stateful hotspots for elements on surfaces and rings - ie: So via exploration you can discover a limited rich resource of something potentially valuable (eg: a rich area of gold in a ring) and mine it yourself (or with friends) until it's gone (forever).

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...antity/page8?p=4007154&viewfull=1#post4007154

 

[YinYin]

Important stuff:

The prospector module should be A grade as that will give you the most fragments from an asteroid.

A new ship is only a real upgrade for mining if you get a larger distributor (mining lasers need a lot of juice - 4 wep pips are handy as well to keep them cool).

Beyond the fragment boost, prospector limpets are only really useful for locating good asteroids if your ship is slow and you can throw out multiple at a time (check one while the next is already flying). If you just have a 1A module and limited space (lets say below ~100 effective tons, that includes cargo and bins), it is better to just chip a fragment to check an asteroid.

Sample for that approach:
[video=youtube;8anGfouBIRY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8anGfouBIRY[/video]

On the topic of mining Haulers, this works well. Really, nothing is worse than having only a single small hard point though.

For good locations, check out this.