Anaconda Mining Spots.

MrSpireite

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Finally took the plunge for a mining anaconda.

However as I have upgraded from he low level ships to the larger I am seemingly struggling to now find mining spots that have a pay off.

I find a spot usually

Diamonds
Void opals
Alexandrite

And also pick up the decent payers such as Bromite.

However I could mine for a couple of hours and fill he python easily

The anaconda I can spend hours and see nothing to crack or even few worthwhile asteroids with anything in them.

Am I doing something wrong?
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
MrSpireite said:
Diamonds
Void opals
Alexandrite
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Because these items Don't pay well.. They suck their slow to get and demand at station sucks at the very rare high price location after the November 2020 credits balance....
This items demand is OK and price has been bumped in November 2020 credits balance...
 

Starshot_Jigawatts

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Ship has nothing to do with mining. This makes no sense. If you are doing the same things in the same places as before, your results should be the same regardless of ship. Something else must have changed. Are you coming back from a long long break maybe?

Also try and ignore all the trolling from people who can't accept the Anaconda is one of the best ships in the game ;)
 

MrSpireite

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Starshot_Jigawatts said:
Ship has nothing to do with mining. This makes no sense. If you are doing the same things in the same places as before, your results should be the same regardless of ship. Something else must have changed. Are you coming back from a long long break maybe?

Also try and ignore all the trolling from people who can't accept the Anaconda is one of the best ships in the game ;)
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I totally love the anaconda and fitting it out just need to find some better mining zones i think.

Alexandrite at 770k a ton isn't bad
 

Starshot_Jigawatts

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MrSpireite said:
I totally love the anaconda and fitting it out just need to find some better mining zones i think.

Alexandrite at 770k a ton isn't bad
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Maybe I've just had really bad luck, but to fill up an Anaconda with Alexandrite? Hope you have a few weeks spare time lol.

Seriously core mining is just THAT nerfed right now. It's so bad....
 

Tikanderoga

Tikanderoga
You can make some decent coin with core mining, I'm currently mining Musgravite, benotoite, Alexandrite and the occasional Grandidierite. As for where to mine: Any hotspot will do. The amount of cores doesn't change in an overlap, just the "what the core consists of" is influenced.

If you want fast cash, got for laser mining Platinum and Osmium. That sells for a lot.

Some core mining insights:
Drop into any spot you like and fly a bee line towards one spot. I pick a spot (usually another hot spot I target and fly towards it. I fly at a 90 degree angle (full dot on the left of the radar) for a few Ks, then turn 90` left so the full dot is on the right and fly for a few ks while pulse waving all the time and prospect anything that looks vaguely promissing. Repeat.

If you don't find any cores within 3-5 minutes, there is a decent chance that you are following someone's trail who has been here <7 days ago.
Happened to me yesterday while mining: I got core after core, sometimes even 2 cores under prospectors, crack one and the next one is ready. Then all of the sudden: nothing! 5 minutes, 8 minutes, nothing! That's when I called it a night. I didn't see any blown up asteroids, but it wasn't normal.
 

Tikanderoga

Tikanderoga
The Roofus said:
Yes, you didn't laser mine painite
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Because that's worth as much as gravel these days. Same as LTDs.
If you see them in an icy, mine them, but don't wait for them. LTDs are at 350k as a good average price.
Painite sits around 300k.

Platinum: 290k
Osmium: 290k
However you can find more of Platinum and Osmium and LTDs and the demand is higher.
Painite and LTDs have a dynamic demand and doesn't go by the tick. Demand is much lower too.
Platinum you can offload large quantities without hitting the sales tax or saturating the market.
Same with the core mined goods (Except LTDs)
 

Tetra Trash

Tetra Trash
Tikanderoga said:
You can make some decent coin with core mining, I'm currently mining Musgravite, benotoite, Alexandrite and the occasional Grandidierite. As for where to mine: Any hotspot will do. The amount of cores doesn't change in an overlap, just the "what the core consists of" is influenced.

If you want fast cash, got for laser mining Platinum and Osmium. That sells for a lot.

Some core mining insights:
Drop into any spot you like and fly a bee line towards one spot. I pick a spot (usually another hot spot I target and fly towards it. I fly at a 90 degree angle (full dot on the left of the radar) for a few Ks, then turn 90` left so the full dot is on the right and fly for a few ks while pulse waving all the time and prospect anything that looks vaguely promissing. Repeat.

If you don't find any cores within 3-5 minutes, there is a decent chance that you are following someone's trail who has been here <7 days ago.
Happened to me yesterday while mining: I got core after core, sometimes even 2 cores under prospectors, crack one and the next one is ready. Then all of the sudden: nothing! 5 minutes, 8 minutes, nothing! That's when I called it a night. I didn't see any blown up asteroids, but it wasn't normal.
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All good advice, I'd add that each ring only has one shape of asteroid that's a core, so once you get familiar with them you can screen out ones that light up but are the wrong shape and not waste time on them. The shape is different in each ring type and EDtutorials has some pics of each kind (https://www.edtutorials.com/mining/smokes-guide-to-core-mining/). I've gotten so that I can ID the teardrop shaped ones in rocky and metallic rings but I still have a hell of a time picking out the "popcorn" ones in icy rings.

Usually when I drop in to rings I either find myself getting a good string of cores or just not much of anything, even when I din't see evidence of exploded asteroids. Sometimes going into SC and going to a different part of the ring/hotspot works, or I just go find a different ring. I've been favoring benitoite, rhodplumsite, and monazite recently but these days I've been mining by the dropship-load and not an anaconda-load quantity :)
 

Oytis57

Oytis57
MrSpireite said:
The anaconda I can spend hours and see nothing to crack or even few worthwhile asteroids with anything in them.
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Yes it's an old and known bug, Minerals can smell an Anaconda from kilometers away and run like hell so that when you arrive there's only some ing Clarate,wasted teabags and minches of scones, better solution is to get rid of the Conda asap.
 

tolm

tolm
Oytis57 said:
Yes it's an old and known bug, Minerals can smell an Anaconda from kilometers away and run like hell so that when you arrive there's only some gently caressing Clarate,wasted teabags and minches of scones, better solution is to get rid of the Conda asap.
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I think the “lore” explanation is to do with the freaky light hull, IIRC? The reason the Annie has sooo little mass - even compared to ships much smaller than it - is due to some kind of “anti grav” property in the materials used to construct the hull. The downside is that the light raw materials in asteroids are “pushed away” by that effect, making mining next to impossible.

That was it, right? ;)
 
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