Tritium mining is a bad joke out in the black!
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You should have watched Battlestar Galactica there even was a refinery ship - the more you know.
Praise Gaben!
Seriously though, i'm loathe to go too far in my carrier out in the black in case i'm reduced to mining for fuel. At that point you're no longer exploring, you're mining in order to explore.
I wish they'd make one cause water is cheap.
The developers simply don't understand exploration. It's understandable that they don't get the difference between using all the gameplay loops for exploration and being out in the black for an extended period of time and having to use those gameplay loops constantly. To understand that they would have to spend weeks or months doing nothing but exploring - but they have to develop the game, so…
The only big mistake they did in regards to FC fuel was to make it a commodity. Since it can be mined and bought to fuel up there is the problem of price.
For Tritium to be mined in a fast way - allowing FCs to get easily refilled in the black - it would have to be a very cheap commodity in order to prevent it from being fast way to make money in the bubble.
Buying Tritium needs to be expensive to make owning and using a FC something of a challenge (or resembling of a challenge in the eyes of the developers since they obviously don't understand how players that don't just play 1 h a week earn credits).
Best solution would have been to make a Tritium something that can't be sold, just mined and bought.
Hey i'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, this game doesnt have the option to lower the difficulty, like in Mario Kart for example.
Anyways, you'll be mostly welcomed when you feel ready to come back and beat the goals you've set for yourself.
I would also recommend that you ask around how do fleet carrier owners retrieve their tritium to roam around the galaxy. It'll be easier than changing the whole game in your favor.
What sort of price are you willing to pay, I ask because I can either mine or buy but the lowest asking price in the Colonia area is 150k and I have only got 5k on board at the moment.
I bought a carrier on roll out. Saw all the crazy stuff what with the tritium in flux at the time. The egg etc.
To date I've only mined about 1k tritium. I do mine it just not as much as fdevs want.
Why? Because like most carrier owners we are wealthy enough to spend a few 100 million on fuel.
Stick 12000 tons in it'll last you ages.
Plan journey so you've tritium to get you home if not mine some.
But do not think you can go out into the black using mining tritium as your source of fuel. That will end in tears.
Fill her up and do what l do...I'm out in the black i do a small 50ly jump with the carrier and then get out and scan everything locally. If i find a tritium spot I'll mine 100 or so. That pays for next 50ly jump.
So out of bubble 10x500ly jumps and your into unknown space where you can easily map making a killing If u map high metal contents elws ww's etc.
Hand into carrier UC 12.5%goes straight into the carriers own bank 12.5% goes to the void, and the rest is yours.
Tritium is fine as it is. Just don't be mining fuel to run it...keep your jumps to a minimum.
3 double tritium hotspots.
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they should just make hotspots... you know... hotspots....
It's all a matter of balance, & Frontier haven't had this right from the start.
Let's put aside the price of the Carrier & Maintainace Costs, but even from day 1 having Tritium's commodity as a 'quick profit making' item was their biggest mistake, along with not having a 'passive' re-fueling system.
That along with no UC facility on board - later addressed.
Tritium usage by the Carrier - addressed numerous times since.
Tritium's poor availability & yields in Ice Rings, particularly in the black - this apprears to have been effected by every adjustment of every change in Mining that Frontier have made, intentional or not & rarely made more obtainable.
The opinion's show that there's quite a large number of player's, myself included, who can't seem to reach 100 tons or more/hr when Mining Tritium, no matter where they go or how they Mine, doesn't mean we're crap at Mining.
There's surely supposed to be a 'playable' balance here, somewhere in between that doesn't penalise a player because s/he doesn't like Mining & is forced to do it, or run out of fuel.
I'd like to see the market price & it's availability at Stations changed to around 4k/ton - 10k/ton price range with availability more in line to say Hydrogen.
In Rings, it then shouldn't be too difficult to extract from Mining by the modest actions of the players - it's a FUEL afterall not a semi-precious commodity.
Whether, Frontier finally re-balance this fueling issue further, we wait to see.......until then we soldier on.......complaining!
Let's put aside the price of the Carrier & Maintainace Costs, but even from day 1 having Tritium's commodity as a 'quick profit making' item was their biggest mistake, along with not having a 'passive' re-fueling system.
That along with no UC facility on board - later addressed.
Tritium usage by the Carrier - addressed numerous times since.
Tritium's poor availability & yields in Ice Rings, particularly in the black - this apprears to have been effected by every adjustment of every change in Mining that Frontier have made, intentional or not & rarely made more obtainable.
The opinion's show that there's quite a large number of player's, myself included, who can't seem to reach 100 tons or more/hr when Mining Tritium, no matter where they go or how they Mine, doesn't mean we're crap at Mining.
There's surely supposed to be a 'playable' balance here, somewhere in between that doesn't penalise a player because s/he doesn't like Mining & is forced to do it, or run out of fuel.
I'd like to see the market price & it's availability at Stations changed to around 4k/ton - 10k/ton price range with availability more in line to say Hydrogen.
In Rings, it then shouldn't be too difficult to extract from Mining by the modest actions of the players - it's a FUEL afterall not a semi-precious commodity.
Whether, Frontier finally re-balance this fueling issue further, we wait to see.......until then we soldier on.......complaining!
I would pay the maximum amount my carrier will allow me to buy for.
I will be there for some time as where I am is an unexplored neutron star field so I'm exploring that while mapping all Ice rings looking for better hot spots.
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I will try that later today as I've found quite a few over lapping hot spots of Ltd's.I recommend going into a Ltd hotspot
Trtium everywhere
Or has no upkeep and has unlimited jump capability... I mean, having to pay pennies each week to run it, and not being able to jump from the Formadine Rift straight to Beagle Point is so last year, isn't it?
Really? I must check your observation in the tiny double overlap I found in Colonia region - I thought I was getting much better than that previously!
You could have unlimited exploration, without mining... But if you choose to pull a FC along, well... Your choice really
LOL.... owch.
Well, next time you're in town, buy up some extra modules: PWS, Cargo, Refineries, Controllers, and Tools. That way you have some options out there
Isn't that standard mining gear that anyone who understood mining was going to be required would be dragging along with them?
I have a dedicated mining Python on both my FC's - and can certainly mine between 100-150t in an hour without getting too bored!
I did the same first trip to the bubble from Colonia, plenty of hotspots to be found during the trip as I was flying ahead of the FC all of the way
Or maybe players don't get around to reading the 'mining' part of the FC description?
Yes but 20-25% rocks were fairly consistent in a tripple hotspot. Something like 1 in 2 asteroids was tritium
I arrived back in Colonia last night - I'll nip out to take a look - I'm more than half-interested to see if my memory serves me well with % of the rocks I was finding.