yeah, and if we're talking about the really early days, we had to do it without limpets!
...now get off my lawn!!!
Asteroid belts are about to get busy - Seriously FD?
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...now get off my lawn!!!
They can have Painite cores as well.
Real belts are too far drawn out to even find a single asteroid. That's why these are clusters. Enough mass in one place to stumble on it (not unlike the newly added lagrange point anomalies I guess). To make them more feature complete we'd need something like single asteroid signal sources throughout the volume of a belt.
They are worth their travel time, if you know what you are looking for. I can drop into any cluster and tell you what an asteroid will contain before interacting with it in any way. You cannot do the same in a ring.
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OK, I'll admit I may have been mistaken about clusters. Though I still doubt they will ever get all that much use from players, particularly using larger ships.
Clusters were briefly useful once, when mining missions existed for small amounts of osmium, etc, as if you knew of a cluster with a couple of osmium roids it took all the RNG out of mining. Now clusters seem a good thing, if all you want is a 10 minute mining trip to fill up a small ship with whatever you know is in the exploding roid in the cluster.
Clusters were briefly useful once, when mining missions existed for small amounts of osmium, etc, as if you knew of a cluster with a couple of osmium roids it took all the RNG out of mining. Now clusters seem a good thing, if all you want is a 10 minute mining trip to fill up a small ship with whatever you know is in the exploding roid in the cluster.
There are often many clusters though. I've been heading out in the black for the last couple of shifts and have been thinking there are more Belt signals than I remember.
If they all have splodey wealth in them they become viable. Head out of the bubble and you won't get Pirate spawns either
If they all have splodey wealth in them they become viable. Head out of the bubble and you won't get Pirate spawns either
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Suddenly 10+ smart bombing Abbies *shudders*
Just tested a rocky cluster in my Adder.
the pulse scanner showed two yellow roids, one had nothing, the other had a core of musgravite. Managed 11 tonnes at 255K/t.
the pulse scanner showed two yellow roids, one had nothing, the other had a core of musgravite. Managed 11 tonnes at 255K/t.
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I wish they would make the clusters larger, even if they were just 20-30 km in size they would be big enough for an RES, big enough for a mining session they would really become a game asset. A lot of gain for a little change, that even rhymes, [big grin]
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I agree Ace. Currently you can fill an Adder at one. If you want to use a larger ship, then you are either mining the junk as well, or braving the pirate spawns at each of the other clusters. Especially now that low volume mining missions no longer exist.
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I just had a read of the descriptions for the new minerals.
Or I would have if they weren't all "Placeholder".
edit - a quick google and I found this list of 10 rare gemstones. 7 of them are in the game.
Or I would have if they weren't all "Placeholder".
edit - a quick google and I found this list of 10 rare gemstones. 7 of them are in the game.
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Now if they could just stop getting busy in my discovery notifications, that'd be great. It's like an asteroid belt orgy's going on in my HUD non-stop.
What it should do is use your navigation page filters. So if you want to see asteroid belts you also see the discovery notifications, but if you've filtered the belts out you don't get them.
The belt cluster rocks are persistent (or were, for about 12 hours) and easy to recognise - they were great for mining missions prior to the 3.3 patch. I don't know what they're like now.
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All roids in the game are persistent. Every roid, in every belt and ring, in every one of the 400 billion systems. It's a bit mind boggling. But without a RES marker or asteroid base to guide from, finding the same ring roids is impractical.
So this does make known clusters useful, provided you have a mission for only a few tonnes - which I haven't seen for some time.
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We're talking about the company that once said "**** kits" instead of "ship kits" in a newsletter
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I know that - it's just a hell of a lot easier to find them in belt clusters.
Agreed.
Now if they'd just fix the constant pirate spawns, these clusters would be practical places to mine in.
I dropped into 4 clusters last night. Three of them had pirates, one with two wings. That wasn't a problem for my Adder, but any larger ship and you'll probably be turning up at the 2nd cluster partly full of cargo.
3 of those 4 clusters had a single explodable roid.
How often are you finding the core rocks in the belt clusters?
I've only found 1 out of a dozen or so clusters so far, and it wasn't immediately visible when dropping in. There was about a 30-60 second lag before the roid glowed. That was after several pulses. I've noticed the same in some other clusters with a delay in the PWS revealing surface/sub-surface rocks. I'm wondering if I'm hitting some weird lag bug, or the cores in clusters are a lot rarer than I expected. (or i'm just really unlucky)
Yeah sure, "asteroid 'places'" be buzzing with activity.
They would be way more active if there were actual
tools to locate miners, to interact with them in anyway,
and i exclude DSS here, as it then still is pure luck
and instancing RNG if you ever see another player.
They would be way more active if there were actual
tools to locate miners, to interact with them in anyway,
and i exclude DSS here, as it then still is pure luck
and instancing RNG if you ever see another player.
"Interact with" . Lol. I'm sure the miners will be putting the biscuits out for when you arrive.