It's up to Frontier to tell it's playerbase if there are exploits in the game that player's shouldn't be using......until they do this then these are just bugs & player's are working within the current game mechanics as presented by Frontier.
Sometimes harmless miners or system cops are spawned in this situation. Its not always NPC pirates. However when pirates are spawned, its a nice diversion to destroy them with my mining ship. Pro tip: your mining ship should not be defenseless and unprotected, even in Solo.
Some say, keep boosting away just above the ring
This depends on outfitting. If I am in my Python (where hardpoints are at a premium and it is equipped for all sorts of mining), I will generally either jump out of the ring and dump what I have on my carrier or jettison what the pirates demand. They will thank you and then your limpets will re-collect everything before they have a chance to scoop it up (works most of the time). If I am in my Corvette, then that single mostly harmless pirate in a DBS picked the wrong target to make demands to ... (Or even the wings of 4 that tend to spawn) His children will go hungry not only this night, but for all nights to come.
You're the one who's not making sense. When the patch notes say they "fixed" something but it's still broken; then the only possible conclusion is that the fix failed.
There's a different one on XB1. Seen it with my own eyes.
This should be a ganker's paradise if anyone is brave enough to work on this egg in open.
Nobody is going to do it in open. Even if it was not a gankathon, people would jump in just to find someone else mining it.
There are many rocks with four SSDs on them. The particular case with the ones people are using is that they have little or no spin and are easy to find.
Yup.
Again, not everyone. Just a lot of people.
In a twisted way, I admire you guys. I tried to mine my way to billions. I made it 90 tonnes in and nearly went mad from the boredom. Whatever engineer that was that I unlocked by mining 50 tonnes of whatever....that nearly put me out of the game altogether...and that was before collector limpets were a thing. I remember when I did that again on my PC account years later thinking "This is MUCH easier with these limpet thingies." Even still, though....I just can't do it. So I'll remain relatively poor, in galactic standards. Four year CMDR across two accounts and my net worth is just under 7billion for both.
Painite. It was then I realized mining was not for me. It changes the motivation a bit when its for so many credits, but still hard to swallow.
I did the math after I had the 90 or so tonnes. I think I made roughly 100 million when I sold them. And it took me about an hour or so. So , 100 million an hour? Not bad, I thought. I did the math and realized that, at my skill level of mining, it would take me FIFTY hours of doing nothing but mining, I gave up hope of ever owning a fleet carrier. No way I can stomach that.
That was about my rate as well. Waiting for a good price can fetch you 144 million on that 90LTDs, but without a carrier, you have to sell at the best price at the time so you can keep on mining. But once you get the carrier, you pay for the cost of it and then some (without mining at all).
Aye...the old adage about having money to make money seems very fitting.
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