i just made a bit over 400 million in 1 void opal run in my python last week. had fun too.
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Well, you might want to do the good old laser mining in a double painite hotspot. It will take some good hours to mine 500t if you never mined anything before, but the paycheck will be consistent. Otherwise, you only need 10t of painite to unlock miss Selene Jean.
Not really, you can be anywhere in the hotspot - you dont need to hit bulls-eye
THere is only one shade of yellow and one shape of asteroid that yields valuable deep-core materials.
Not hard to watch some YT how-to movies and find out the colour and the shape
Come on, everyone is doing it, you can do it too.
Void opal mining is a good way to make credits, I've made 4 billion just on mining alone.
That was essentially my thinking ... sure, I’ve calmed down a bit now but still genuinely surprised but the total lack of anything turning up - just look at the number of people replying to this thread with “I make 100M an hour” or “I’ve made 4 billion doing this” ... how?! Better luck? Insane levels of patience?
Once you learn to spot the right asteroids, the rate it's roughly one core every 10-15 minutes
Ok is that 1 run or 1 session including many runs..
I am mining somewhere not too far from Sol so I expected the hotspot to be depleted - obviously not. I estimate that one in every 30ish small bright yellow asteroids has a core. Look at the ones that have really dazzling colours even when close up.
Go leesti.. then find the crucis star just near it. Go to the ring planet that ends 6-6Mind if I ask where?
. You need to discover scan it to reveal the hotspots.. there is an alexandrite and void opal. Keep hitting that pulse wave scanner..
You can show your build for that please. It sounds wrong.
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What sounds wrong?
Sounds about right for a 246t (including refinery) Python full of void opals
Actually this does sound right. I can make 100 million in an evening in my AspX with a 64t hold. You just need to know where to sell.
1 single run. 248 tons. 1.6+ million each.
Mind if I ask where?
anywhere. doesn't matter. I usually start by finding a station paying high prices and then look for planets with ice rings nearby. usually find several so close I can leave my fuel scoop at the station and take a cargo rack. Once you find a station with good VO prices and find a hotspot you can leave your fuel scoop and DSS at the station and just cram your ship full of cargo racks. remember you can use your refinery to "store" about 8 more tons depending on what size refinery you have....just don't forget to sell them or you'll have an exciting trip back out to the hotspot.
240 tons of cargo and 8 more in the refinery.
In a cutter you could do over a billion in 1 run and manuvering a cutter around all those rocks....meh....but it would be a VERY long run....probably 8-10 hours.
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VO is not Yellow/Orange they are bright Canary Yellow and shaped like popcorn.
When coming into a ring outside of the hotspot(no pirates) slow as much as possible the moment you see rock exit hyper and no smash
Rinse and repeat.
Can you show me the build. I've only got 128t and I go through limpets like crazy. I have 2 64t cargo and everything else is for mining. Can you please describe your build and the order of your optional
To be fair, I've had a couple of sessions where I've come up almost empty.
I guess it's just bad luck that I picked an area that didn't have any DC 'roids in front of me or I picked somewhere that somebody else had already cleaned-out.
Fortunately, I'd had good results beforehand, so I knew what is possible and it didn't put me off.
Like I just said in another thread, the 'roids are around so it's not worth going to a lot of effort to look for them.
Just start off 1000km or so from the hotspot marker and fly in a vaguely straight line toward it, checking out any bright yellow 'roids as you go.
On that note, another top-tip is, if you're mining in an inhabited system always go to a starport/platform and check the traffic reports.
If it shows a heap of ships visiting that system in the last 24h it probably means a lot of people have already been mining in the same place you're planning on mining.
Try to find a system where there's very little traffic and you'll know the hotspot probably hasn't been picked clean already.
