Useful to see how your firegroups were set up, though you whizzed through it too fast to follow and I had to rewind and playback half speed to catch it.
Well, this guide is intended to be "advanced", that is - beyond basics
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For basics, look up guides by Hawkes Gaming or Down to Earth Astronomy or Exigeous.
Putting limpets on abrasion blaster is common practice.
Seeing that I realise I've not been using the composition scanner.
It's irrelevant. It's just there because I'd rather have 2 groups than 5.
If having the other scanners doesn't hurt and allows me to have fewer fire groups, that's what I do.
Optimization - I know you like the word
Later when you put too much/many Seismic charges in one asteroid and disarmed one, I had to rewind that twice and put in on half speed to see what you did to disarm it.
Again, that's in the basics
One thing asteroid mining definitely teaches you, is good control over your ship.
Yeah, that's why I love it above all other farming methods.
I'm on keyboard and mouse at the moment and find it too clumsy - too many keys that cannot be arranged in an ergonomic fashion.
I'm on mouse and keyboard
W/S - thrusters up/down
A/D - thrusters left/right
Q/E - roll left/right
Mouse 4/5 - thrust forward/backward
These two on the mouse are under the thumb on my logitech g305. If I didn't have them, I guess I would rebind shift/ctrl or Z/X perhaps. Or maybe I would move my throttle somewhere else from R/F where I have it now. Or maybe I'd remove Q/E because my mouse is set to "yaw on low roll" so I can roll with it as well.
Will try one of our XBox One controllers.
I hate controllers but it could work
One thing is for sure, you've become super proficient at deep core mining and its hard for the newbie to keep up with what you doing
Thanks
Yeah there's a lot in here that's above basics. This is actually why I decided to make this video at all. I look at all of those other guides out there on YT and all of these awesome content creators, whom I have to thank for most of what I know about the game.... they all fly those ships like they're actively trying
not to make money. Core mining has a lot of room to be profitable, but it requires you to look alive!
Laser mining attitude bad. Racer attitude good!
Another thing is external view. Hawkes Gaming brought it up in his guide I think and many use it now. I loved it. I tried it. I was surprised how few cores I found.
So I tested it. I literally flew circles around an asteroid I knew was a core.
Results? Most of the time it totally did
not look like a core when viewed with external camera, somewhere to the side of my ship.
External camera looks like a neat trick on paper, but you're shooting yourself in the foot by using it, or at least that's what my testing revealed.
Maybe I was unlucky, but you know what?
Drifting through the ring is more fun anyway
Very grateful for your help. At least I made 8 million instead of zero last night.
This number still needs increasing by a factor of 15, but as long as you practice, you'll get it
