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[VR] Orodruin

[VR] Orodruin
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
For lasering LTDs, the collectors seem to do OK so far...
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Will they get the stuff into your hold? Yes. Will they be efficient at it? No.
It will actually cost you time to run too many lasers for the number of limpets you have. The alternative when you have only six limpets for four lasers is to mine in bursts, but you might as well just go with two lasers. In essence, for your limpets to be "keeping up" with your lasers, the fragments should be targeted almost immediately upon being released from the rock. There should be essentially no down-time waiting for the collectors to tidy up after you have depleted the rock. If this does not happen, you are running too few limpets.
I don't know if you saw my video of laser mining in Borann some months back (note; the video is old - there is nothing but dust in Borann now):
Keep an eye on the limpets and fragments on the radar. This is how the limpet loop is supposed to look like: No fragments should get away from this loop. (The few fragments that do float away in the video are materials that my limpets are ignoring due to my raw material bins being full. They are visible on the radar as they are not on my ignore list.) This is a Python running 7 collectors for three lasers.
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
I just finished another mini (ish) loop exploring session. I went out toward the edge. I went out far enough to have the spectacle of arriving in systems and the nav panel only showing 5 or 6 choices of other systems to travel to.

I went in my beloved 50ly jumping Dolphin. Saw some nice stuff including no Fleet Carriers ;)

Discovered 4 White Dwarfs, one of them also contained a Water World in the same system. This is Not really the point of my post though.

I’m 6 jumps from home (Colonia) nothing really, I discover an undiscovered Water World. I tag and map it and marvel at just how short a distance from Colonia that is. I jump into the next system and am the first to discover an ELW.

5 reasonable jumps from Colonia I find an undiscovered ELW. I find that remarkable. When I arrive in Colonia, there are 33 Fleet Carriers listed in the nav panel.

I was worried these things were going to ruin exploring for people like me. Although not the most efficient way, I earn the bulk of my money through discoveries. Little loops that take 2 or 3 days. I earn around 100m a trip. It’s nice out there. I thought these FC’s would be out snapping up all these little discoveries. But no, they all plot up in the same system. I’m both relieved and baffled by it.
 

SportyScribe

SportyScribe
Just awake after a food coma from seeing family for the first time since lockdown!
Options for today:
1) Work on getting better at core mining
2) Fly back, get in the AspX and try out Dav’s Hope and Jameson’s crash site
3) Think about a decent upgrade to my lovely growling Viper to hit some RES sites and inch up from Novice
4) Go to Shin Dez and Jameson’s memorial for the first time since I got my first Elite ranking

Think I will have a cup of coffee and mull over those for a while... maybe flip a coin...
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I might take a foray into trying to find Raxxla :eek: :geek:

All I need now is somewhere to start after reading the Wiki: I may so see if I can dig up The Dark Wheel from somewhere and see if there're any clues in Greek mythology around the Omphalos.

I love a good mystery!
 

Spaceman Si

Spaceman Si
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I might take a foray into trying to find Raxxla :eek: :geek:

All I need now is somewhere to start after reading the Wiki: I may so see if I can dig up The Dark Wheel from somewhere and see if there're any clues in Greek mythology around the Omphalos.

I love a good mystery!
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The best of British, Tyres :)

If you haven't seen it already, then this 890 page (and constantly growing) thread here has most of the theories, investigations, and what not. I was quite convinced that there was something in the Elusinian mysteries at one point, but that sort of came to nothing. It's a fun diversion, anyway :)
 

LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
I was waiting for my trading ships to transfer to the system I was going to work out of and decided to travel back to my starting system of LHS 3447 just for the fun of seeing where I started. I'd planned on going back for my 1st anniversary but it happened about a week into the planetary circumnavigation expedition on Kumay which I figured was a much better way to spend the day than looking at an Outpost. My second anniversary came and went without me even realizing it until a couple months later.

So anyway I went out there today and was surprised my beginning station was like 90k ls away from main star. I don't think I ever returned after I set out that first time with the starter mission, I just sort of drifted around wherever missions took me for the first couple of months and didn't really have a base or any clue where I was in the galaxy. I wasn't expecting much and that's what I got. Normal outpost and I looked at the mission board out of curiosity to discover I wouldn't have been able to do any if I had wanted to. Every faction required a friendly or cordial relationship but I was only neutral. Like I said I wasn't expecting much, I just figured I'd feel a little nostalgia but I didn't get that either. I guess it was more fun than waiting on my ships to get delivered though.
 

LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
I did a little trading then got bored with it and decided to head out to the Pleiades and fight some Thargoid scouts in my Mamba. After an hour of that I decide to do a little sightseeing and I wasn't too far from Rigel, a system I'd intended to visit but never got around to even though I've been near it many times. Not only was there no moon over Rigel VII (perhaps they blew it up after Star Trek V), there was no Rigel VII or Rigel I for that matter, just the stars Rigel and Rigel B. The most interesting thing about the system was that I exited my jump at the much smaller Rigel B and had to SC to the main star. Does this have something to do with the size? Like it's supposed to be too big to safely jump to?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
LetItBleed1980 said:
...The most interesting thing about the system was that I exited my jump at the much smaller Rigel B and had to SC to the main star. Does this have something to do with the size? Like it's supposed to be too big to safely jump to?
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No - there are larger stars you can jump to directly. It's just that the smaller star on this case is also more massive, and the SC exit is always at the most massive star on a system.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
LetItBleed1980 said:
........... decided to travel back to my starting system of LHS 3447 just for the fun of seeing where I started. .........

So anyway I went out there today and was surprised my beginning station was like 90k ls away from main star. .........
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Ashnak said:
No - there are larger stars you can jump to directly. It's just that the smaller star on this case is also more massive, and the SC exit is always at the most massive star on a system.
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Back in ye olde dayes when we started there we only had access to basic and intermediate discovery scanners initially (ADS was v expensive) so the system just seemed to be that LHS 3447 and it's orbiting bodies - I honestly cannot remember if jumping back into the system dropped you at Gliese 748.2 or at LHS 3447 (since we had not discovered Gliese 748.2). Five years is too long for my little grey cells to recall. The strange thing is that Gliese 748.2 has the "B" suffix but LHS 3447 has no suffix letter.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Codger said:
Arrived back in the bubble with Simon and all his ships safe on board. I burned allll my fuel, so now I need to find a place that's selling Tritium cheaply and refill.

That'll keep me busy for a bit, and then I'll decide what's next. :)
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The SOP for that seems to be to announce your intentions in a soutable system and pay xx% above the local price for H3 to be sold to you. Then jump to a high sell system and sell the H3 form your storage back at yy% below the station's buy price. Everyone wins, and if you don't sell all the H3 back, you'll have your storage filled after a few jumps.

A few CMDRs are doing this in the Turning The Wheel player effort, coordinated in the Elite Week discord. Main goal is to push The Dark Wheel by selling at a profit into Meredith City/LFT 926, side effect is that everyone gets rich :). From the Discord (from one carrier):

Pick up Tritium in CIBOLA at SANSEBAR
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Once the carrier is filled, he'll make the jump to LFT 926 for sale. According to EDDB, supply is running low, though. So you'll either need to find another drought system to buy low, or make do with a much lower profit margin (10k/ton price differential is easy to find).
 

Simon Templar

Simon Templar
Codger said:
Arrived back in the bubble with Simon and all his ships safe on board. I burned allll my fuel, so now I need to find a place that's selling Tritium cheaply and refill.

That'll keep me busy for a bit, and then I'll decide what's next. :)
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And incredibly grateful I am, too. All 16 ships back in the Bubble. Had some exploration data with me so the locals are now actually friendly.
Thanks so much to @Codger , an absolute gent. And as we just said - do tell me where you end up berthed for refuelling as I’ll shoulder the burden of the tritium refill. Least I can do!!

thanks again, Commander.

o7
 

Codger

Codger
Ashnak said:
The SOP for that seems to be to announce your intentions in a suitable system and pay xx% above the local price for H3 to be sold to you. Then jump to a high sell system and sell the H3 form your storage back at yy% below the station's buy price. Everyone wins, and if you don't sell all the H3 back, you'll have your storage filled after a few jumps.
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Yes, I'm aware of the furious trading going on. It means that the selling systems are always chock full of carriers, making it difficult to get a good parking spot for hauling purposes. I'll probably end up in the next system over.

I could attempt to buy and sell, but all I want is a full tank, so I just want to buy cheap and keep it ;)

Servicing other players is a cool idea, and I like the emergent trading that's going on, but I won't be participating in that right now. As the FC Owner you have to advertise in chat and let people know your schedule and etc. That's not my current frame of mind. I want to get back to exploring again, I think. I had just settled in when I decided to taxi Simon back, so my exploration desire is still strong.

It's great to have so many options, though! :)
 
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