Cool little Selenium planet
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You can still use your standard laser mining ship without removing the refinery. Just turn the refinery off. This way you will not realise that you are missing a refinery next time you want to mine for other stuff.
I tried that, the limpets collected and reported refinery full.
Thanks for all the tips here btw, really great help ta.
Thanks Pork. I've gotten a lot of mats mining, but never dawned on me to go just for mats. I'll give it a try. lol
As for the prospector controller, you saying A7 is better than say an A4 or A1 at yields? I though only the class
makes a difference and not the size. That would put smaller ships at a big disadvantage.
X.
According to the Wiki, you're right.
YAY
Only class matters. Size affects number of active limpets. When laser mining I use a 5A prospector (4 active limpets) for more effective prospecting. The limpet controllers only come in odd sizes (1,3,5,7).
If you want to fill your Selenium by swapping your other high grade mats you'll need a few trips out to HIP 36601 .
I had quite a few mats from normal prospecting and I took 2 trips to fill all except Selenium which would have taken another 2 trips.
Was much easier to go to the geo Selenium planet instead and MUCH closer to the bubble.
I had quite a few mats from normal prospecting and I took 2 trips to fill all except Selenium which would have taken another 2 trips.
Was much easier to go to the geo Selenium planet instead and MUCH closer to the bubble.
Im certainly doing that now mostly for synthasis my earlier mat collection (Raw) was pre engineering mining and just happened if i remembered to trade up each time
I hope no one minds if i add this from another thread - be nice having everything in one place .
Selenium Field on Body 3 b A , Geological Signal (16) http://edtools.ddns.net/selenium?s=sol
Star system: HIP 83204
low grav but not too low , very nice to navigate, boosting and going high speed no problem, almost no annoying rocks or bumps that
screw around with your SRV. Absolutely unobstructed landing possible with large ships without even having to bother to look for a proper spot.
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Star system: HIP 83204
low grav but not too low , very nice to navigate, boosting and going high speed no problem, almost no annoying rocks or bumps that
screw around with your SRV. Absolutely unobstructed landing possible with large ships without even having to bother to look for a proper spot.
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To underline what others have said:
- For raw materials, the highest grade is G4. Those can generally be gathered from crystal shard sites - apart from selenium, which is the only G4 raw material that cannot be had from a crystal shard site. As such, you would trade at a 6->1 rate for selenium. For all G3 raw materials, I would trade down from the G4 raw material in the same category so the lower grade bins are full. I would then go out to the crystal shards to fill up all the G4 bins (except selenium, which is filled separately).
From a dude on r/eliteminers, who seems pretty well informed...
There has to be some reason a Corvette is 5000x more expensive than a Sidey.
Link please. Otherwise it is just hearsay.
...if I provide a link, are you then going to ask him where he got the information from, then what, where does that end. If you are interested test it in game.
I want a link to a statement supporting what you are claiming. It is a quite standard procedure when you make a claim that goes right against the general consensus on EliteMiners, which is that what matters is prospector class. This is also why the EliteMiners pre-flight checklist tells you to fit an A-rated prospector - not the largest possible A-rated you can fit.
In addition, the Elite Wiki has the following to say:
Now to contrast that, we have you claiming ”you heard from someone”.
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Hey relax man nobody's died, right? Here is one of the sources, rather ambiguous on second reading. A further one mentioned the A7 specifically. It's cool you care so much about accuracy.
" Also keep in mind that the higher the prospector controller you have the higher yields the asteroid will give, it won't however change the quality of the mats but simply spawn more fragments increasing the chance for mats to drop."
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/4qpkft/mining_materials_like_a_pro/
Thanks for clearing that up.
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The ”higher” here refers to prospector class, not size.
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Don't forget too that you can just collect surface mats from volcanic sites very easily in a Sidewinder, without SRV.
Just fly down, eyeball the nodes, shoot em off with a pulse laser and scoop em up.
You can strip a field a hell of a lot faster in a ship than an SRV, and it's fun
Just fly down, eyeball the nodes, shoot em off with a pulse laser and scoop em up.
You can strip a field a hell of a lot faster in a ship than an SRV, and it's fun