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Newcomer / Intro A question of mining....
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You can in the settings link a hot key to drop cargo if you look, as a short cut to doing it. So you don't need to go through the menu, wasting time to get to drop cargo section in time. Link a hot key via the game settings and you should be able to drop the cargo in time then. But I agree, mining is not my thing but noticed when I had to do it for engineers. That is happens pretty much every time and isn't really a random thing that might - or might not happen with pirates. You know it's going to happen every time you drop into a ring or an asteroid field
There are some planet rings though that have a base right in the ring and when you undock you're flying into the ring (the rocks are right outside the base). Most of them from what I noticed never have pirates scan you at all, maybe because you don't go into supercruise and then drop out of it into a ring. But instead undock from a base and just fly into the ring
There are some planet rings though that have a base right in the ring and when you undock you're flying into the ring (the rocks are right outside the base). Most of them from what I noticed never have pirates scan you at all, maybe because you don't go into supercruise and then drop out of it into a ring. But instead undock from a base and just fly into the ring
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I suppose you could go the big bucks route and get a T9. Full on cargo ship with a SLF for defense and way more of everything else than you will likely need.
Very expensive though. Quickly Tossed Together T9 Miner @ 105m CR
Does that fit your criteria of a role-focused ship?
Not recommended for beginners. An unengineered T9 is a giant mobile coffin. Many beginners saw the easy money from 700T+ of cargo, but they soon came crying onto the forum after they lost everything. With a T9, it's much harder to win the interdiction mini-game, and when you lose, you're a sitting duck. The SLF would work if it's only one ship attacking. It would give you time to escape as long as you were quick to launch it and set it on the attacker, but if it pops in the first few seconds, so will you.
Also, a T9 is sort of OK for laser mining, but I don't think many would use one for core mining, especially unengineered. Don't forget that you need a detail surface scanner, and 2 limpets would take years to fill up a T9. As a general rule, you need three collector limpets for each mining laser, whichever ship you use.
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I thinks it's a right thread to ask about the mining lance. Soon I'll get my prismatics and I look forward for a second powerplay module. 2km distance looks very tempting and may help my Cutter not to bump every second roid I mine. But it's in theory. Does it worth 4 weeks?
No idea, I just use good shields and boosters, get to far away and the limpets would take to much time collecting
I saw that too. Given how close I have to get to sample a given rock, I think 4x the range would be extremely useful
As a point of interest... does the Jettison All Cargo command also jettison all your limpets?
Limpets are cargo.
Well, pirates don't consider them cargo, so I thought perhaps they might not be jettisoned with regular cargo.
They don't consider them tasty cargo (and only because many miners moaned to give you this information distinction).
It empties your hold - so yes as @metatheurgist says limpets are cargo and out they go too.
F D just made pirates ignore limpets for gameplay reasons I suppose - after all 101 cr is more than 50 cr for a tonne of tasty poo.
Plus, any self-respecting pirate will use limpets, so FDev won't want all the NPC pirates attacking and killing each other to save on limpet costs. Though that would be fun.
Ok, soo....
I must be doing something wrong, or I'm not understanding what the point of "hotspots" are.
So, I looked on ED Utilities (http://elitedangerous.hozbase.co.uk/) for a pristine metallic ring. Strangely, it said the nearest pristine ring was in the system I was IN, apparently around a planet with NO RINGS. No matter, I went to the next closest system and went to the planet with pristine rings. I dropped a probe in, and there were multiple painite and platinum "hotspots," so I approached and entered the ring in a painite hotspot.
After the requisite pirates wasting my time, I moved to within 1km of the hotspot and prospected the nearest asteroid... and 200 more asteroids in the area. NOT ONE had any painite of any kind... nothing for lasering, nothing subsurface, no surface deposits, nothing whatsoever.
So... that's now 400 limpets used scanning asteroids in hotspots for the specific material supposedly IN the hotspot... with ZERO of that material discovered anywhere.
So, what is it? What do these so-called hotspots supposed to represent?
I must be doing something wrong, or I'm not understanding what the point of "hotspots" are.
So, I looked on ED Utilities (http://elitedangerous.hozbase.co.uk/) for a pristine metallic ring. Strangely, it said the nearest pristine ring was in the system I was IN, apparently around a planet with NO RINGS. No matter, I went to the next closest system and went to the planet with pristine rings. I dropped a probe in, and there were multiple painite and platinum "hotspots," so I approached and entered the ring in a painite hotspot.
After the requisite pirates wasting my time, I moved to within 1km of the hotspot and prospected the nearest asteroid... and 200 more asteroids in the area. NOT ONE had any painite of any kind... nothing for lasering, nothing subsurface, no surface deposits, nothing whatsoever.
So... that's now 400 limpets used scanning asteroids in hotspots for the specific material supposedly IN the hotspot... with ZERO of that material discovered anywhere.
So, what is it? What do these so-called hotspots supposed to represent?
I think you must be cursed.
Yes the presence or otherwise is RNG dependant but even Paininte should show in a Paininte hotspot.
What system, body and ring are you looking in and I'll drop in and put together a quick and nasty video to check.
I guess you could try going to a well known hotspot, and see what happens. Then you'd know that the hotspot itself is good.
Try Col 285 Sector KM-V d2-106, Planet 5 Ring A, drop into the outer hotspot at the double Platinum overlap. I'm talking about the 2 Platinum hotspots that overlap, in the inner metallic ring. They are right at the edge of the ring.
This is a popular spot, and one I've been to myself, and it's full of platinum.
If you can't find any there, then I don't know what to suggest.
Try Col 285 Sector KM-V d2-106, Planet 5 Ring A, drop into the outer hotspot at the double Platinum overlap. I'm talking about the 2 Platinum hotspots that overlap, in the inner metallic ring. They are right at the edge of the ring.
This is a popular spot, and one I've been to myself, and it's full of platinum.
If you can't find any there, then I don't know what to suggest.
I wouldn't be surprised, that seems to happen a lot in video games I play, lol...I think you must be cursed.
Yes the presence or otherwise is RNG dependant but even Paininte should show in a Paininte hotspot.
What system, body and ring are you looking in and I'll drop in and put together a quick and nasty video to check.
(try calculating the odds of drawing no mana through 10 cards of a 40 card Magic deck with 16 mana in it... now calculate the odds of that happening 24 times in a row, and THAT HAPPENED...)
Anyway, I'm out at the edge of the bubble. I was in HIP 40786, I'm now in Umastae.
Wing up (or ride piggyback, i.e. Multicrew) with another experienced miner?