Tritium Mining

Stealthie

Stealthie
Red Anders said:
There are two reasons why you've only got the one definitive answer from Stealthie just so you know:

1. The Miner's tool doesn't include tritium, so people can't just look up 15 systems full of overlapping hotspots and link them for you like they can with painite, LTDs etc.
2. Most people are only concerned with speed and it's faster to use the miners tool to mine something else that is worth credits and then use them to buy your tritium.

I get that you want to go mining but the fact is very few people in the bubble can be bothered and that's just how it is.
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And, of course, the fact that people might want to keep a good source of Tritium to themselves, to avoid depleting it and to avoid the possibility of Fdev nerfing it.

Which is fine.
Anybody who plays ED should understand that there are some specific things that people are likely to want to keep to themselves.
 

K Olley

K Olley
d8veh said:
I want to MINE tritium in my laser Cutter. I just wanted to know exactly where to go. Ideally, I could get something valuable at the same time. I was hoping somebody would say go to system X planet Y and mine minerals A and B while you get loads of tritium. That would have been the logical answer to my question, but I should have known that you guys don't think like that. My bad!
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I can give you loads of places, one is just a couple off rings over from where my carrier is parked, but without a few basics like where are you located it is very hard to give you a location.

The ring I am referring to I did a quick blast through yesterday, spotted LTD's 2 VO and 3 Rhodplumsite Cores while doing a fast test run in a SSD crunching Python, located at Clooku SZ-V c3-93 4 B ring only about 13KLy from the bubble,
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
Stealthie said:
And, of course, the fact that people might want to keep a good source of Tritium to themselves, to avoid depleting it and to avoid the possibility of Fdev nerfing it.

Which is fine.
Anybody who plays ED should understand that there are some specific things that people are likely to want to keep to themselves.
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The chances of any player (or come to that any 10,000 players) actually depleting a hotspot are essentially negligible as far as I know so I've never let that be a concern. As for nerfing, I've never known them to nerf a specific hotspot in that way either - there are the nerfs enforced by the loot table changes when they've updated hotspots in general which have caused the whole table to be changed permanently but I've never seen a targeted nerf of a particular spot.

None of which means that a player might fear these things, which I realise was your point, but some people are scared of all manner of things which will never happen.
 

scadh

scadh
d8veh said:
I want to MINE tritium in my laser Cutter. I just wanted to know exactly where to go. Ideally, I could get something valuable at the same time. I was hoping somebody would say go to system X planet Y and mine minerals A and B while you get loads of tritium. That would have been the logical answer to my question, but I should have known that you guys don't think like that. My bad!
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Maybe if you continue asking so nicely and showing your sincere gratitude for people taking the time to try to help you (in an illogical way and not to your satisfaction, of course, but still), maybe someone will step up and offer to mine it FOR you!
 

goemon

goemon
Red Anders said:
There are two reasons why you've only got the one definitive answer from Stealthie just so you know:

1. The Miner's tool doesn't include tritium, so people can't just look up 15 systems full of overlapping hotspots and link them for you like they can with painite, LTDs etc.
2. Most people are only concerned with speed and it's faster to use the miners tool to mine something else that is worth credits and then use them to buy your tritium.

I get that you want to go mining but the fact is very few people in the bubble can be bothered and that's just how it is.
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this is spot on.

the only place i ever went tritium mining is colonia with my colonia account. because anywhere closer to the bubble it is faster to mine other stuff and sell it and buy tritium.

and in colonia i use the double tritium hotspot Nightjar mentioned - or the triple tritium hotspot a bit more out, and only if there isn't something else which pays more per ton than a tritium reseller wants for a ton of tritium.

i also will mine trtium the next weeks for an expedition carrier. but i doubt i'll spend time finding double or tritium overlap hotspots - and single tritium hotspots are the most common hotspots in icy rings.
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
I feel his pain because there have been a couple of times I fancied being altruistic and doing a bit of tritium mining myself but without putting the time in to locate and store a personal list around the bubble of say doubles at least, before selling it at below market price to attract buyers, I just can't be bothered especially not when demand seems to be minimal in view of the amounts of ready credits available from other sources to buy it.

I know FDev's 'vision' was of mining as the primary way to obtain tritium but they failed to take account of the fact the mining rush was never prompted by players in general loving mining to begin with - as with most things Elite it was prompted by players loving money.
 

K Olley

K Olley
scadh said:
Maybe if you continue asking so nicely and showing your sincere gratitude for people taking the time to try to help you (in an illogical way and not to your satisfaction, of course, but still), maybe someone will step up and offer to mine it FOR you!
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Yes and no.

I have given enough information to help find a local location, and a specific known location with a nearby carrier that would if asked nicely be willing to BUY at regular prices anything worthwhile that he was able to mine.

Tritium mining is not that easy or fast compared with some other commodities, the only time I have sold it was to a carrier stuck right out in the black and unable to mine it properly themselves. When I mine Tritium I do it as a mixed run, LTD's, Bromellite, MMC's and any available Cores. Tritium for the tank the rest for profit.
 

goemon

goemon
d8veh said:
Yes, but where? That's the question!
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i think you are missing something very obvious from various posts here (some early in this thread):
tritium hotspots are literally almost everywhere.
any icy ring.
you'll have no problem finding one.
you'll have also no problem finding a brommelite/tritium overlap.
i can give you a list of Tritium-Brommelite, tritium-double brommelite, tritium-low temperature diamonds hotspots etc. roughly 150 ly from sol, but those are in no way better than what you will find right around your corner. if you don't want to go looking yourself, drop me a pm.

the only special places for mining trtium i know of, because it is the only place where that might play a role, is that double tritium hotspot in colonia, already listed here, and a triple tritium a few hundred lightyears from colonia - because colonia is the only place where mining tritium makes sense sometimes.
 

scadh

scadh
K Olley said:
Yes and no.

I have given enough information to help find a local location, and a specific known location with a nearby carrier that would if asked nicely be willing to BUY at regular prices anything worthwhile that he was able to mine.

Tritium mining is not that easy or fast compared with some other commodities, the only time I have sold it was to a carrier stuck right out in the black and unable to mine it properly themselves. When I mine Tritium I do it as a mixed run, LTD's, Bromellite, MMC's and any available Cores. Tritium for the tank the rest for profit.
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I was being sarcastic. I found the OP's tone to be condescending and rude. "That would have been the logical answer, but you guys don't think like that". I have asked for, received and offered tons of assistance on this forum, but I'll play no part in helping someone who won't help themselves and looks for a handout instead, then has the nerve to insult the very people from whom he's requested help when he doesn't like their answers.

Per my post yesterday: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/a-rant-about-ranters.563691/. :)

Then again, I'm an old curmudgeon, so maybe others see it differently than me.
 

K Olley

K Olley
scadh said:
I was being sarcastic. I found the OP's tone to be condescending and rude. "That would have been the logical answer, but you guys don't think like that". I have asked for, received and offered tons of assistance on this forum, but I'll play no part in helping someone who won't help themselves and looks for a handout instead, then has the nerve to insult the very people from whom he's requested help when he doesn't like their answers.
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One other thing that has got to taken into account, for every member on this board there are about 8 guests, ie: people that can view these posts and may be looking for answers to the same questions but for some reason, maybe too shy, they are unwilling to join us.

Therefore an answer that contains clues maybe of help to those that take the time to read the posts properly.
 

K Olley

K Olley
d8veh said:
Yes, but where? That's the question!
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To be honest anywhere I find an icy ring. There is not much difference in yield when laser mining in singles, doubles or mixed doubles, SD, and SSD yields may be slightly higher and I have never seen a Tritium Core, Ring yields can vary dependent on the density of the ring, as in some rings are very sparse and open and others have lots of rocks close together, so it seems you get a load faster.

I have also test run rings without any hotspots and area's outside of hotspots, Tritium may be rarer but it is still there, you may have to expend 3 - 5 limpets per ton found but if your desperate you can still get some fuel.

Within the bubble even I would not bother to mine Tritium but for any new carrier owners that want to try for practice when out in the black always choose a Pristine system and its well worth collecting Bromellite and maybe even MMC's as well, both are wanted on the mission boards and Bromellite is in high demand.

I spend most of my time out in the black and I mine almost all my own fuel😀
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Red Anders said:
I feel his pain because there have been a couple of times I fancied being altruistic and doing a bit of tritium mining myself but without putting the time in to locate and store a personal list around the bubble of say doubles at least, before selling it at below market price to attract buyers, I just can't be bothered especially not when demand seems to be minimal in view of the amounts of ready credits available from other sources to buy it.
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Bizarre as this might sound, you could still use the "mine something else and sell it to buy Tritium" method to satisfy your altruistic tendencies.
Simply buy a heap of Tritium, flog it for a loss and then go mine something expensive to cover your expenses.

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