50 Shades of Yellow

foxwalker

foxwalker
As many have disparaged over the death of LTD mining, I have tried some other avenues. By the way, I think the angst over that is a bit much. Painite mining easily yields 300 to 500 tons in a day, (somewhere between 200-400 million space bucks). For someone trying to get their Fleet Carrier or maintaining it, that seems reasonable.

I digress. The thing is, Painte is not a exciting as Diamonds. So, I thought I would check out Deep Core mining as opposed to the old standard laser mining.
Really, Frontier must be messing with us. Looking at the guide, I saw this as necessary to get the right rock.
(Honestly, when in ED, and scanning, finding any yellow or yellow orange asteroid is hard enough. The added silliness of it needed to be the right shade is ridiculous.)
It is hard enough, just to get the tools to work once you do find the right one. Then you have to fumble around trying to get just the right angle? Then wait a minute and a half to find out your charge didn't work, start over.

Yep, this is messing with us big time. Just my thoughts on this. Maybe I need to give it more time....

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Bennoj61

Bennoj61
A couple of things - you don't need to wait until the timer runs out to wait for the charges to blow, just go to your contacts, select a charge and tell it to blow now, the timer then drops to 10 seconds. Also, I generally use 3-4 charges to blow a core asteroid. It doesn't matter what the strength of the fissures are it works pretty well regardless - first charge is high strength, second is either high or medium depending on how close the blue the first one got, the next two are low, that should land you in the blue with nothing going over. It takes some practice but it works well for me.
 
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Bravo17

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foxwalker said:
It is hard enough, just to get the tools to work once you do find the right one. Then you have to fumble around trying to get just the right angle? Then wait a minute and a half to find out your charge didn't work, start over.
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You just need to practice a bit, you soon get the hang of which asteroids are good and which aren't and how different lighting effects how they look. There is only 1 shape that is good, and it must have the visible fissures as well. Like ZAKALWEINC8876 said, turn on Nightvision to see them easier.

And if you are really waiting a minute and a half to see the results you badly need to watch one of the many tutorials because you are not doing it right.
 

Mercury7

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Is that why I only found 2 units of LTD in 2.5 hours in a hot zone?

I went Opel mining too, and found none.

Plenty of Tritium though. I ended up mining that for a few minutes and netted a couple of million.
 

OHMSS

OHMSS
ZAKALWEINC8876 said:
If i am core mining i turn night vision on, easier to see the cores, for me at least.
I don't bother mining much tho because it is fairly boring imo.
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Do you search using night vision only or do you switch to night vision after locating a contender. What are you looking for? Curious and will also try myself later tonight.
 

Bravo17

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OHMSS said:
Do you search using night vision only or do you switch to night vision after locating a contender. What are you looking for? Curious and will also try myself later tonight.
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I just leave NV on all the time so that I can see whether the asteroid has fissures once the PWA has found a likely contender.

As a plus, it also helps with being able to see and not running into those awkward rocks someone has left lying around.
 
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