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[Marvin the Martian]

Absolutely insane!

Lol, sorry can't help myself, somehow the current reality of E: D goods value in Cr just doesn't compute!
I mean, that's some mineral, that kind of sale value is about 100 times more than it would've been before FDEV gave totally up and went with INSTAGIBMEALLNAO whiners demands.

They've actually been nerfing mining earnings since before I started playing this past March. In just the last few months it's gone down about 23%.

If you do a search for best mining material you'll see tons of posts about Void Opals and how people would get close to a million per ton over them and many were selling them for 800,000 or more per ton just a year ago.

Now, the highest price is right at 300,000 per ton, a decrease of 63% over the last year and a half.

Plantium has taken a nose dive too. When I first started, I could sell platinum for 340,000 per ton just about anywhere. It's highest price right now is right at 280,000. That's a nearly 18% decrease in just the last three months.

Clearly, the days of "easy money" mining are over.

 

[Zieman]

Clearly, the days of "easy money" mining are over.

I beg to differ.
But my perspective is a bit different that yours.

Last time I mined for money (or some CG), IIRC platinum sold for 13k, gold & osmium for 8k and painite for 30k.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Last time I mined for money (or some CG), IIRC platinum sold for 13k, gold & osmium for 8k and painite for 30k.

But did you have an item in the game that costs 5,000,000,000 credits to buy and 40,000,000 per month to maintain or you lose it?

No. You didn't.

 

[Zieman]

But did you have an item in the game that costs 5,000,000,000 credits to buy and 40,000,000 per month to maintain or you lose it?

No. You didn't.

True that. But that's irrelevant, as the item is entirely optional novelty, which can pay the maintenace pretty easy itself.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

True that. But that's irrelevant, as the item is entirely optional novelty, which can pay the maintenace pretty easy itself.

No, it is not irrelevant. It's actually the point. The economy changed to make it possible to buy it. If people can't buy it and afford to keep it then there goes all the sales of customizations for them in skins, layouts, engine colors and all from FDev's site.

 

[Nekozji]

Approaching the binary moon with the 3 geo + 1 bio signal, it became evident they are quite close together...

So close that I could scan both of them at the same time

Past experience with vacuum worlds and bio signs has left me a bit cynical about my chances of finding anything - I need not have worried! These moons did not disappoint and I finally ticked off a bucket list item for old school biology.

Unfortunately while the 'trees' are certainly full of fruit, most of it was chromium and magnesium, which I do not need at all.

The second moon however, yielded a decent proportion of zirconium and arsenic, which I don't have much of. I may skim around here for a while and top up a little.

 

[Zieman]

No, it is not irrelevant. It's actually the point. The economy changed to make it possible to buy it. If people can't buy it and afford to keep it then there goes all the sales of customizations for them in skins, layouts, engine colors and all from FDev's site.

Yeah, I see the logic, it's FDEV bean counters dictating development direction.
I'm just an old fart shouting "get off my lawn filthy casuals", sometimes forgetting that without those same casuals the servers might already been switched off for the game being too unprofitable for the studio.

So, in game & game world perspective I'm very disappointed because of ridiculous hyperexpansion of credit earnings, but when you remember real world realities, it makes sense.

It's just noobs crying NEEERFF!1!1! every two weeks that sometimes makes me irritated enought to remind folks of how things were.

 

[0threeleven]

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Unfortunately while the 'trees' are certainly full of fruit, most of it was chromium and magnesium, which I do not need at all.

The second moon however, yielded a decent proportion of zirconium and arsenic, which I don't have much of. I may skim around here for a while and top up a little.

So those pinkish balls on the tree are actually mats? That's way cool. There's a thread here someplace that I was reading about moons colliding or about to collide and they had an app that could predict the date it would happen, can't remember where though.

 

[Zieman]

There's a thread here someplace that I was reading about moons colliding or about to collide and they had an app that could predict the date it would happen, can't remember where though.

I don't think this is quite what you're looking for, but it has some possible collision dates listed:

Canonn Calendar

canonn-science.github.io

And here's some more info:

Colliding moons 'near' Sgr A* discovered: Shrogaei DW-N e6-1683 A 4 a & A 4 b

I downloaded the latest version of Observatory the other day - and decided to see what the 'Colliders' plug-in might turn up: turns out I passed through a system (previously discovered - but unmapped) during DW2 that had two moons that 'collide' @ 214 days / roughly every 7 months...But the...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Small update, found a double overlapping Alexandrite/Void Opals hotspot. 14 crackable asteroids in 2 hours, over 200 cargo filled.

Not bad for 2 hours of gameplay!

VO's and Alex seem to give a healthy income - if you can get enough of them!

For me, and I appreciate I have the tools so probably not something a newcomer can do, farming platinum is my main source of income should I choose. I can get ~300mCR selling just over 1,000 per mining excursion.

I used to make 10's of millions doing cargo hauling missions but they seem to have been nerfed somewhat the last time I looked.

Still, as has been said, getting 100's of millions is still fairly easy and pretty necessary if one wants to own and pay UC on an FC! On foot mission rewards won't cut it...

 

[Fnord Velkor]

So those pinkish balls on the tree are actually mats? That's way cool. ....

No those are part of the tree - the materials are aggregations which you find* on the trunks and branches - like you find mushrooms in the real world.

Fungal Life

Fungal Life can be found on the surface of certain airless planets and moons, typically those orbiting O-type, B-type, and A-type stars, across the galaxy. Aside from their importance to xenobiology and other fields of science, they also bear various fungal growths that can be harvested for raw...

elite-dangerous.fandom.com

Cordycep Growth (Very Common Materials) - Carbon, Sulphur, Iron, Phosphorus

Polyporous Growth (Common Materials and Rare Materials) - Chromium, Manganese, Selenium

Mussidaen Seed Pod (Standard Materials) - Niobium, Tungsten, Molybdenum

Phloem Excretion (Rare Materials) - Antimony, Polonium, Yttrium


* EDIT - I forgot to say "...and shoot off..." - just in case that wasn't obvious.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

VO's and Alex seem to give a healthy income - if you can get enough of them!

Void Opals are not worth the effort. At all. You can make literally 2.5 times the amount just laser mining platinum. To fill up a 200 ton hold of a Python with Void Opals will take you two hours at least. That will make you 60,000,000 credits at current prices.

I can fill up the 500 plus ton hold of my Cutter with Platinum in an hour and a half, sometimes a bit less. That makes me 140,000,000 credits.

Alexandrite is the same way. It's only worth 400,000 per ton and can only be core mined, so the amount of time you spend makes it not worth the effort. If it's not worth at least 600,000 per ton, then it's not worth core mining at all because you can laser mine platinum much, much faster.

Edit to add: I do sometimes core mine anyway, simply because it's so much more fun than laser mining.

 

[Dragsham]

Out in the black mapping and bios, raws and mining. Only cores n sub surface/surface...ill laser mine if its staring me in the face.
Doing it all easily pays for upkeep. 3000t of mixed cores thus far. Should more than pay for the trip out and tritium used.
Might stay out at Hawkins cos its so undiscovered! Not even 5k out atm. Slow progress what with all of the above hehe.
Doing mixed things defo streams the game better. Like it was meant to be played like this...least that's how I see it.
But I have my fortune and fc and ships so I'm just marking time hehe.

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

Just come back to EDH to test my new Thrustmaster TWCS Throttle. I'm back to a noob now.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I'm (still) a n00b and proud of it!

 

[Ashnak]

For anyone wanting to (attempt to ) hitch a ride to Hutton Orbital: the carrier R.Buckminster Fuller is currently on its way to Hope City in Ross 130. I intend to buy a Python cargo shuttle here and fill up with trade goods (from nearby systems). Later today or tomorrow (UTC), I'll try to jump close to Hutton Orbital to refill with Mugs and Gin. If there's no parking space available, the jump will be postponed (I'll put up another notice when the jump is scheduled - but that only leaves a 15 minute window for docking).

If that works out the same way it did last time , I'll stay there for the week, then return to the western edge of the Bubble.

P.S.: Still got a few Mugs available on request - it's the Gin that has run out.

 

[Hexnibbler]

won my first "salvage" on foot mission with enemies (they were only 2). hurray
o7

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

For anyone wanting to (attempt to ) hitch a ride to Hutton Orbital: the carrier R.Buckminster Fuller is currently on its way to Hope City in Ross 130. I intend to buy a Python cargo shuttle here and fill up with trade goods (from nearby systems). Later today or tomorrow (UTC), I'll try to jump close to Hutton Orbital to refill with Mugs and Gin. If there's no parking space available, the jump will be postponed (I'll put up another notice when the jump is scheduled - but that only leaves a 15 minute window for docking).

If that works out the same way it did last time , I'll stay there for the week, then return to the western edge of the Bubble.

P.S.: Still got a few Mugs available on request - it's the Gin that has run out.

Just looked at the sysmap for Alpha Centauri - carrier infestation there so Eden or Proxima may be a little hard to get to. You might get lucky though...

won my first "salvage" on foot mission with enemies (they were only 2). hurray
o7

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You are on your way to scav takedown missions! Power-ons can be fun if there's scavs already there or they drop in as you land. What's not so fun is when you are merrily stealing material from lockers and the building starts shaking... ruh roh, incoming! If you are just in your ship, make sure you park ~500m from the settlement. If you've deployed the SRV, you might find it under attack...

 

[Nekozji]

So those pinkish balls on the tree are actually mats? That's way cool. There's a thread here someplace that I was reading about moons colliding or about to collide and they had an app that could predict the date it would happen, can't remember where though.

There's 1-2 fruits per tree that look very out of place Sometimes they get stuck in the branches, but it's possible to just go jump on them and they'll fall out.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Before I took a break from ED (which ends on Monday 22nd - lets not talk about the sneaky hour I played a few days ago) I tried a couple of simple on foot missions given by my player faction in my home system. It was just delivering a box or data - forget which. I'm trying to get interested in the on foot side of the game beyond exobiology. I quite liked getting out of my ship to go and find the mission contact, but finding them was tough. There is no mission marker to follow that I could see. I also don't know my way around the on foot wheel menu.
I don't mind doing short missions like that for 3 to 5 inf as I'm not out of the ship for long. Part of the problem is any mission that requires my undivided attention for more than about 30 minutes is hard to take on. My play tends to be in short regular bursts. This is also why Thargoid combat doesn't work well for me. Even when you have the ability, it takes too long to kill an interceptor.