I have just started doing core mining. Mining Void Opals at the moment. Trickiest parts are getting to recognise the cores on the pulse wave scan and placing the seismic charges. First run I ran out of seismic charges cos I wasted a lot and fitted a second launcher and since then have never run out on the first one. At least with core mining with the PWA you have a way of picking rocks that are worth prospecting. Like the OP with laser mining was getting frustrated as not finding any rocks worth mining and running out of prospector limpets before filling the cargo hold. Have never run out of prospectors core mining and usually come back with a load unused.
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Newcomer / Intro Getting to grips with mining basics
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It is funny, I love the explosions of core mining (that is why I fit core mining equipment on my laser mining Python), but what really drives me away from core mining is the large random factor in how long it takes to find the next core and the space madness I get when I don’t find anything.
To each their own, I guess.
CRACKED IT! Bit of practice and now I am cracking through rocks like a good'un!
That was great end to what started out as a damn frustrating start to mining.
Enough to move up to an Asp as a miner.
Back home to Li Yong Rui space to get the discount (age of austerity and all that!) and then A-rate all the usual suspects.... while I got progressively more efficient t refinery management, that 32T cargo hold just felt really small!!!
Thanks all for hints and tips... just took a little practice and paid off muchly!
Enough to move up to an Asp as a miner.
Back home to Li Yong Rui space to get the discount (age of austerity and all that!) and then A-rate all the usual suspects.... while I got progressively more efficient t refinery management, that 32T cargo hold just felt really small!!!
Thanks all for hints and tips... just took a little practice and paid off muchly!
It is so satisfying when something in the game just clicks into place and works for you.
It just bugged the hell out of me at the end of yesterday, and I refused to be beaten by a bunch of rocks! I went back and watched a few tutorials - I thought it had to be something obvious I was missing, and a bit o'practice...
I feel pretty cool to have wound up with the ship I ended up with 5 years ago...
BUT... it will be terribly embarrassing to work up to some pretty toothy ships and still be Mostly Harmless so maybe more RES work during the week is called for to improve that...
Speak for yourself. Elite, Pioneer, Mostly Harmless and rocking the galaxy in an Orca.
Haha! When you put it like that I don't feel quite so bad then! Combat can wait until mining gets nerfed!
Well said. I'm pretty confident I'm not the only CMDR with this perspective. I'm not saying I'll never dabble in combat, I'm just happy with everything else. The kills making up the Mostly bit are all sentinel drones and scavengers at Gaurdian and Thargoid sites btw.
I think when I take my Adder shuttle back to Li Yong Rui stations to get me into this Asp, I can trick out my Viper at the same time and can park that somewhere with decent access to RES sites... Why do I think I am gonna end up with a fleet of Adder Ubers?
Ha. I do that too. I've pimped up a Hauler with A class FSD and a big D class scoop and D class everything else (dropped the shields too - okay if you don't carry anything, or hit anything!) the bonus of a Hauler is that its even cheaper to call to your current location and jumps further. Having now engineered most ships with a higher jump range it makes less difference now so I'm less likely to do this and just leave the ship where I last used it and pick it up from there. Plus with my recent mining I'm now at circa 3 Bn credits so I'm basically being a cheap-skate playing games in a Hauler. Boy, do the cheap ships suck when you've got used engineered DeLacy and Saud Kruger ships.
I did think about a hauler... but I remember hating it when I bought one 5 years ago and I couldn't WAIT to get the hell out of that ... that was my over-riding memory on my way to my first Cobra Mk III.
This time around I went Sidey (sold Freagle) - Adder - Cobra Mk. III + Cobra Mk. IV (Miner) + Viper. Adder Uber and Asp next up this week and let's see what the Asp brings in terms of some mining punch...
Finding cores is a bit like submarine hunting. Cruising above the asteroid field pinging away with the PWA. I find that quite relaxing. Getting good at spotting the likely rocks now, which means I prospect about 20 rocks per run. Unlike when I was laser mining I would use all the prospectors and still go home without filling the hold. When the LTD hotspots change in June, until a new one is discovered core mining will still provide a reasonable return.
I also started with an AspX core miner - but just a few runs until I could buy a Python. That AspX is now refitted to be an exploration ship.
I want to also try out core mining at some stage... when I was using my humble prospector limpet yesterday it discovered an asteroid with core elements and kept throwing up strange little icons about asteroid fissures ...
The fissures are what you target with the seismic charges. You need to set about 3 or 4 until you have enough to blow the rock. There is a graph that shows how much explosive yield you have and you need to get it into the blue zone. Some good Youtube Videos that show the process. You get good at thruster control as you have to fly around the rock to get at the fissures. The nice thing about is you get a lot from one rock. Got 22 tons of LTD off a single core the other day. To fill my Pythons 192t of cargo space only takes a dozen rocks.