Just tried an LTD "hotspot".
12 Tritium.
3 LTD's.
I'm going to let the mining deities do all the mining (and bragging) for a while.
12 Tritium.
3 LTD's.
I'm going to let the mining deities do all the mining (and bragging) for a while.
Patch Notes Fleet Carriers Update - Patch 4 Patch Notes
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Thanks for the replies guys. I am very, very experienced with the game though. I do know how to do all the things and with great confidence after over 3000 hours in the game I can do it with my eyes closed. My post was only meant to reinforce the fact that Tritium mining is not where it was, and in one of Frontier's posts they stated they wanted Tritium mining to be back to where it was pre patch 3. It simply is not. Before, I only ever had to laser mine for it, that is my preferred mining style, I could get enough to fuel my carrier and be happy with it, I can't do that now, which means it is clearly not back to where it was pre patch 3.What ChipStar says. Watch and learn from him, he gets amazing results. Do not expect the game to ever be adapted to your habits or misunderstandings. You are the one who has to adapt, not the other way around. That being said, if anything feels currently very right, then it's Tritium mining in Tritium hotspots!
I believe, according to Obsidian Ant's latest video after patch 4 about mining, he mentions that Frontier are aware of ongoing issues with mining and are talking to the dev teams. Let's see what happens now.
Patch 4.5: Tritium - I'll be backLet's see what happens now.
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Yesterday I did more mining than I’ve ever done in the game. I do DC mining, I find the other methods either ineffective or just a bit tedious, having said that, I scraped Trit surface because it was easy. I found plenty of cores, each giving up over 20 pieces of LTDS, Opals, Alex, Grandid. Hauled those back into town, made a fair penny. Picked up around 10 Trit in that time.
My concern is, I can make mining financially lucrative, meaning, buying Trit, is not an issue but I’m in Colonia, meaning, buying Trit is an issue.
I have to experiment more but the idea that I’ll laser mine or subsurface my FC’s tank full, fills me with dread.
I feel partly stranded in Colonia because of this.
My carrier does not yet have all the services but I suppose when it does, I could head toward the Bubble on the slowest trip ever, trying to collect Trit as I go. At the rate I’m getting Trit though, that could take a year.
My concern is, I can make mining financially lucrative, meaning, buying Trit, is not an issue but I’m in Colonia, meaning, buying Trit is an issue.
I have to experiment more but the idea that I’ll laser mine or subsurface my FC’s tank full, fills me with dread.
I feel partly stranded in Colonia because of this.
My carrier does not yet have all the services but I suppose when it does, I could head toward the Bubble on the slowest trip ever, trying to collect Trit as I go. At the rate I’m getting Trit though, that could take a year.
Well, I parked the mining Python. Not being an omniscient, omnipotent, infallible mining deity is a horrid thing.
Back to mission running and trading.
Back to mission running and trading.
Well on the patch 3 notes I noted that:
It would seem to still be true and that we are still in stage 1
Uhm it didnt work, all the issues listed are still issues, mining broken overlaps broken tritium broken orange sidewinder every time you try to play still a hot mess, why cant you roll it back to just after 3 days from the initial carrier update, ill take paint jobs not sticking over this hot mess.
Tried mining Painite at a couple of pristine painite single mining hotspots today. Found all kinds of irrelative minerals, not a single painite rock. It's been how many, 4 patches now, and they still can't fix basic things about the carrier update.
So started to offload my carrier cargo, which is rare commodities from all around the bubble plus missions rewards cargo, Thargoid stuff etc.. Will see what my T9 can carry, don't know what happens to they rest when you decommission your carrier? Will give this game a well deserved brake. Hope they eventually sort it out.
So started to offload my carrier cargo, which is rare commodities from all around the bubble plus missions rewards cargo, Thargoid stuff etc.. Will see what my T9 can carry, don't know what happens to they rest when you decommission your carrier? Will give this game a well deserved brake. Hope they eventually sort it out.
Did a VO mining run last night. Bit slower than the last one post patch 3, but filled the hold in a couple of hours. 212 mil in the bank so around a 100 mil an hour. Found the odd LTD or Alexandrite core, no more than usual. Happy with that. Was mining them when VO’s were 700k a ton so current prices are a boon.
Try to go in your network card (ethernet or wifi) and uncheck the ipv6 protocol then validate by pressing ok (youcard will deactivate then reactivate in some seconds). Sometimes it mess up with application and i know that in france it is useless as a few of networks use ipv6.
Repeat to yourself ad infinitum: Carriers are not ships. If you like racing, a superanacondathatwillgetmetherthefastest is just right for you. Decomm and be happy! (the newest Vulcan aphorismSo I tried to move slowly as everybody say ...
1st jump
While was waiting carrier gathered mats on planet...
65 minutes in trit x1 spot: 124 trit + 20 of others. So i need another 35 mins to cover 1 jump
Nope, nope. Will use cargo for 2-3 more jumps till NS road, then will cover 7000 left by anaconda in next 90 mins.
If we must to mine something, make it collectable by SRV. Like u connect pipes and it feels cargo
I would preffer to drive that 2-3 hours instead shooting rocks.
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SSDs, centre of a single Tritium hotspot in the black, not a mining deity (actually kinda suck at Elite in general), getting 200-300 tons per hour. The top end may have been a fluke, however...
I'm not saying those are ideal numbers by any means, but the folks who say they can get next to no Tritium at all (low tens of tons per hour)... are you sure you're not working to an out-dated set of optimum conditions?
Specifically, are you taking into account that the outer edges of hotspots have been vastly reduced in yield and thus narrow overlaps are usually no longer as effective? Are you focusing on SSDs and not laser (at least not exclusively)? Are you mining near the centres of hotspots?
I'm not saying those are ideal numbers by any means, but the folks who say they can get next to no Tritium at all (low tens of tons per hour)... are you sure you're not working to an out-dated set of optimum conditions?
Specifically, are you taking into account that the outer edges of hotspots have been vastly reduced in yield and thus narrow overlaps are usually no longer as effective? Are you focusing on SSDs and not laser (at least not exclusively)? Are you mining near the centres of hotspots?
2 hours in a double hotspot for painite. 112 units. Not sure if that's good or bad not having mined this before.
Furthermore, it's not even carrier any moreRepeat to yourself ad infinitum: Carriers are not ships. If you like racing, a superanacondathatwillgetmetherthefastest is just right for you. Decomm and be happy! (the newest Vucals aphorism
Calculations show to do 2 jumps you need to crack 1 VO. Or kill 4 thargoids per carrier jump, or 5 including 25% fee.
Some piece of metal junk, where all gameplay goes to "keep it moving". Now we play for carrier, not using carrier.
Not a competition. Open submission!
If your PJ gets picked, you get some Arx.
Or a vote: See how many they get, see what the community wants to see ingame (pick top 50, 100, whatever), put it in the shop. BAM! instant money!
It's literally a license to print money for them.
But who am I to tell them how to take our money, right?
Commanders should realize that the posts about mining as you go are not in response to shortage of tritium in any and/or all markets -- that's a wholly separate issue. Nor are they saying that everyone should embrace that approach to long-range, deep space exploration, as it does take time and patience. What they do address are the far too many posts that claim that solo exploration with a FC is impossible, which it patently is not.
In terms of long-range travel close to the speeds many Cmdrs seem to demand of a vehicle obviously not meant for the kind of speed ships can easily muster, my calculations show that Colonia to Sol would take about 6-7weeks at a fairly leisurely pace of travel and mining along the way, not 52 weeks. Even if you are getting half the average tritium yield/hr now possible, it would not take a year. Emoexaggeration isn't useful.
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now the FC are for those who have too much time and think that an hour of wasted time to extract 100 trit is a blessing from FDev
To be fair to me, I did state that it was the way I’m doing it, I did imply that I’ve not done a lot of mining, I did say that at my current rate it would take me a year, I perhaps should have added that I hope/expect to improve my methods.
Honestly Fdev, a well made game, but sadly to say you guys became a bunch of Karens. Nerfing this, nerfing that. This is why I stopped playing for such a long time. Nerfing mining then saying you fixed it. Let people make the credits, considering you said a while ago before carriers came out" Mining won't get a nerf. I find this a pathetic excuse to say you hot fixed anything. you guys in my own opinion have become toxic towards your player based, by not listening. should have left LTD's and Void Opals alone. I play other games and a few people who are vr game devs who have played Elite dangerous from time to time after working. They noticed the changes and literally quit playing. there are still good people playing in Elite Dangerous. Better things to say is leave your game alone, fix things to normal without nerfing, Put out hot fixes that patch.
So Fdev in my own words, Stop being a Cherry Picking Donkey and bring back the mining rush.
So Fdev in my own words, Stop being a Cherry Picking Donkey and bring back the mining rush.
Once again the emoexaggeration, and completely inaccurate. Somehow, since carriers dropped, I've managed to earn 550+M in exploradata, put 1100+T of LTD in my hold and around twice that in other money minerals, log about 30 Codex entries for around 875K cred, and find 3 virgin ELWs, a Wolf-Rayet star, a Herbig Ae/Be star, a nice little O-star cluster, and 5 types of interstellar life form, among other finds. According to you that's not possible, so "according to you" must be wrong, and you are.
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