Ya, I was mapping that monster Ammonia world and accidently hit the ring system with a probe. Mining seems quit complicated with many different styles in this game.
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There's basically only two: Laser and Core.
Only one is worth doing: Laser.
Core is a lot of fun and takes a lot more skill, but the cores are so few and far between that you spend 25 times the amount of time looking for a core that you do actually mining it.
No, that's just finding hotspots.
I think that these guys that have carriers can really clean up, you get to park your fleet onboard and take them all with you. Mining, combat, and exploration and you can mine for fuel too, right? So, you can go deep in to the black, you can have Astro-metrics, xenobiology and tons of storage for all your minerals you acquire, I'm seriously thinking about getting one.
Platinum cores only appear in metal-rich rings, not the metallic rings you'd be laser mining in. FWIW.
I have an ExploMiner 49er named "Clementine" - T7 set up for laser mining and exploration including SRV, which can hold up to 160 tons of refined mined fragments...
Excellent. An important distinction. I learned something new today...Thanks.
The reverse is true as well.
You don't want to be laser mining in a metal rich ring. You won't find a thing.
It's a common mistake new miners make.
Ahhh, also good to know...thanks for heading me off at the pass...
Yer just a fountain of knowledge today...
He does that a lot.
I'm presently sporting his Corvette build just slaughtering pirates.
So, last night I survived a PvE pirate interdiction in my DBX bubble taxi long enough for the popo to show up. The pirate got away but I lived and didn't run...
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Just what I was saying, complicated. I have 3 little note pads and pieces of junk mail with info jotted down on them just to keep up with you guys.
I stopped keeping notes and just let it flow. I forget things and then re-remember them.
About the only notes I keep now is if I'm exploring a new system and there are many bodies worth mapping, I'll use the orrery to plan an efficient path to get to all of them and then I write the bodies in order on a post-it note and cross each of them off after mapping them.
Sometimes I have to write down the names of commodities I'm looking for if its more than one of them...
Depends on my mood and I like to try everything in the game. There is an appeal to offloading mined materials to your own fleet carrier for selling later.
Selene the armour engineer wants you to mine 500t before she will do business with you. So that's two platinum runs with a laser mining Python that carries up to 224t of refined materials plus a Painite run to make up the balance plus the 10t of that Selene wants. You can give up mining after that.
In a good spot and with some practice you can fill that Python in about 50 minutes.
I'm too impatient to leave things to chance, so I cheat and use a hotspot finder: https://edtools.cc/hotspot
I prefer the organic approach...
Why just look something up when I have a fully capable exploration machine at my finger tips...
In theory, yes.
I had better rephraseIn theory, yes.
It means you will usually but not always find more of that mineral....