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Newcomer / Intro Mining
- Thread starter hawknerd
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I think there are more roids with LTD in them. But the concentration per roid does not go up in a triple there are just more LTD roids. FYI You can get over 30% sometimes.
I understand that Borann is no longer a LTD triple hotspot and in general fdev changed the ring concentration so it is closer to the middle of a hotspot and so overlaps are not the same. But I may be wrong.
I understand that Borann is no longer a LTD triple hotspot and in general fdev changed the ring concentration so it is closer to the middle of a hotspot and so overlaps are not the same. But I may be wrong.
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The latter. I think the heaviest concentration I've seen is 39% in a single 'roid, but I can't confirm that. The more overlap, the greater the likelihood of finding 'roids with good concentrations and SSD's.
I am unsure about the recent changes by fdev and how it impacts this.
They changed SSDs during the beta which dropped the number of fragments to one from around 2-3, that got fixed too well and the number went much higher, though I can't remember how high, so in the patch the number of fragments was dropped by 25% to whatever you get now.
At the same time they changed the density of the hotspots so that there were more good rocks in the middle than at the edges. So for a double or triple how close they are will have a greater impact on the number of target rocks.
I seem to recall that the density change might only have been for LTDs but I am not wading through the patch notes thread to check.
As I haven't mined since before the changes non of this is first hand knowledge, but back then surface mining I did see asteroids in the high 30s percentage concentration.
The highest I snapped tonight was 38.69% - lots of >30% around - I was able to ignore anything under 25% and still had to abandon a large number of limpets.
All RNG of course.
Where are you mining?
I am topping up the squadron FC's credits by mining in the triple at Col 285 Sector CC-K a38-2 - I only do a single python session per day - just about an hour - then get on with enjoying other stuff using a different account.
Nice, I mined there on the weekend. But missed probably the triple hotspot. Still not really sure how to make sure to hit the tiny triple region. Mostly had only 15-25%, very few 30%
Well, so far maybe I have just been lucky. I just target the central hotspot, come in with the same orientation as in the image I posted and "guesstimate" hitting the triple overlap with the central one ending up at less than 15Mm on dropping-in. As long as the other two are behind (hollow circle on the space compass) and to the left and right when I am facing the central one then things seem to be OK. (touch wood)
When in the belt you can go for long periods with less promising asteroids, making you feel you have lucked-out - then the RNG tips in your favour again and your prospectors start hitting the good stuff once more.
One thing I do, just a habit but it makes things easier for me, is to orient my travel through the belt so that the light-source is behind me. Firstly this gives a direction reference and secondly it just feels more comfortable since it makes identifying the best place to mine a rotating asteroid easier for me.
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Scanned some rings with my explorer and found a handfull of hotspot. Changing to my miner (that dont have a dss). Now theyre not showing at all. Not as hotspots and not in the navigation panel. Is this a bug? Because once youve done with a scan the findings surely must be visible no matter what ship you currently have?
Yup. Experimented by switching between ships that have it and those that didnt. Pretty stupid imo. Everything else we scan, system, etc, is data stored over all our fleet. Heck, even materials are universally stored. Why not a scanned ring.
System data is stored on your current ship and transfers when you do, it can be lost if your ship is destroyed before selling the data. Materials and encoded data are linked to you the commander so aren’t lost with the ship but aren’t strictly universally stored as they are only available where you are.