the mother lode

homeboy

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I remember FDEV mentioning changes to mining where a mother lode could be found and other changes to mining roids. Can anyone elaborate on this? or is it just hyperbole?
 

Jpotter

Jpotter
I don't believe it is hyperbole - they did say they were looking into exactly what you say. From the livestreams on 2018 content - I believe it is supposed to be in either update 2 or 3 (out of 4) for the 2018 season. No details really other than that.
 

Mohrgan

Mohrgan
I can say I haven't seen that in the Beta Patch Notes. But, that doesn't mean that it won't happen when as we progress through the 3.x releases.
 

MissMeYet

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homeboy said:
I remember FDEV mentioning changes to mining where a mother lode could be found and other changes to mining roids. Can anyone elaborate on this? or is it just hyperbole?
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Easy enough to implement, but what would make it really great is persistence; maybe not for the whole playerbase, but at least for the miner and wingmates. The ability to go back again and again to a 100% Painite rock would be awesome. People would whine though (not faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair).
 

homeboy

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best i've seen has been algol and blue stars around maia single ring metallic planets. with missions u can generally get about 6-7 for 196 tones of metal. sometimes seeing 40-50% painite.. i do some osmium hunting 2.7 million for 27tons not bad.. but sure would like to FIND THE MOTHER LODE..
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
homeboy said:
sometimes seeing 40-50% painite.
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Best I've seen for a while:

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Viper2kUK

Viper2kUK
During FX17 - Mining was mentioned as being one of the key areas currently unloved (and imo well deserved) but would get some serious attention paid to it. It would though fall behind, Thargoids, C&P, Engineers, Exploration, SRV Racing, Bingo, Tiddly Winks, Delivering the newspaper early on a monday morning, delivering the milk during a snow storm, making sure Carillion paid it's dues, hoping Capita stays alfloat and then mining. Some of which FDEV might not of forseen.

Hope that helps you to realise just how much mining has to offer for the future.

V2k.

(I may be a bit cynical there but don't you judge me :p )
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Hercules said:
Easy enough to implement, but what would make it really great is persistence; maybe not for the whole playerbase, but at least for the miner and wingmates. The ability to go back again and again to a 100% Painite rock would be awesome. People would whine though (not faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair).
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IIRC it used to be like that... but people moaned 'cos you could find a specific 'roid, mine it out, menu-log and repeat.
 

varonica

varonica
Mohrgan said:
I can say I haven't seen that in the Beta Patch Notes. But, that doesn't mean that it won't happen when as we progress through the 3.x releases.
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Asteroid mining was mentioned briefly in the beta 2 patch notes;
Increased yield of materials from asteroids
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But that may just be a general improvement of yield and not mother lode goodness.
 
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