Hey all,
I was watching a video yesterday that mentioned the current mining CG. Now, I've been doing a little mining and then offloading it at my Carrier - as I've done for similar CG's in the past. The issue here is though that the video states that if the mined Platinum, if offloaded at a Carrier at any point, loses its "mined" status, so WON'T count towards the CG. Is this true?
This is like THE use for a Fleet Carrier! A nice large mobile storage crate if you will. There have been other such CGs, but perhaps they could be completed with bought stuff, I don't remember. I just recall mining various things, storing them at a Carrier, then later using a faster delivery ship to offload them.
If player-mined Platinum and bought Platinum are treated as different, perhaps they need to be different wares when stored so this is clear?. I.e. I'd have a "Platinum (Mined)" and a "Platinum (Bought)" ware entry, or something along those lines.
It never occurred to me for a moment that a ware I did indeed spend several hours MINING, might not be counted just because I offloaded it at a Carrier. Maybe this is common knowledge, perhaps prior "Mining" CG's I've done didn't care whether it was mined or bought, whereas others did. I never had an issue previously though. Hope nothing has changed!
Could legitimately Mined stuff also lose its factual "mined" status if transferred to a different ship? I.e. I return in a mining Type 9 with 256 Platinum, I then swap to a Cutter Trader and the cargo is automatically transferred?
I at first suspected that this was perhaps a distinction between buying from someone else's Carrier, rather than your own. Which would be fair enough of course. I then thought that perhaps, at your own Carrier, you Transfer stuff rather than buy or sell usually, maybe that was the distinction. However, the video explicitly states - Commander says they tested it - that either method sees the Platinum lose its "mined" status, which is a problem.
Prior to the CG being public, I'd actually been planning to do a little mining anyway - I've returned from a bit of a break from the game - so, the stars aligned so to speak. I ended up NOT moving my Carrier - I was going to, but then thought I'll do it another day, before the CG was announced. As such, I missed out on a parking space where I'd usually go lol. Still, the Type 9 can carry a lot of fuel, so I can get out to my regular mining location without issue - didn't even need the fuel scoop I added just in case. I then mine for a bit, while listening to music or having a video playing on the other screen, before jumping back to my Carrier. I find it really mellow game-play personally.
Anyway, if anyone can confirm this either way, and whether the Buy/Sell vs. Transfer distinction is a thing, that'd be great. I assumed stuff transferred to my own Carrier would fully retain its "Mined" status, as it has in the past - I've never Sold to or Bought from my Carrier, it's all transfers. Carrier had no Platinum prior to this, so there was no danger of there being a mix of mined and bought. So it's "pure" in that sense. It just threw me a bit when I saw this yesterday.
I was watching a video yesterday that mentioned the current mining CG. Now, I've been doing a little mining and then offloading it at my Carrier - as I've done for similar CG's in the past. The issue here is though that the video states that if the mined Platinum, if offloaded at a Carrier at any point, loses its "mined" status, so WON'T count towards the CG. Is this true?
This is like THE use for a Fleet Carrier! A nice large mobile storage crate if you will. There have been other such CGs, but perhaps they could be completed with bought stuff, I don't remember. I just recall mining various things, storing them at a Carrier, then later using a faster delivery ship to offload them.
If player-mined Platinum and bought Platinum are treated as different, perhaps they need to be different wares when stored so this is clear?. I.e. I'd have a "Platinum (Mined)" and a "Platinum (Bought)" ware entry, or something along those lines.
It never occurred to me for a moment that a ware I did indeed spend several hours MINING, might not be counted just because I offloaded it at a Carrier. Maybe this is common knowledge, perhaps prior "Mining" CG's I've done didn't care whether it was mined or bought, whereas others did. I never had an issue previously though. Hope nothing has changed!
Could legitimately Mined stuff also lose its factual "mined" status if transferred to a different ship? I.e. I return in a mining Type 9 with 256 Platinum, I then swap to a Cutter Trader and the cargo is automatically transferred?
I at first suspected that this was perhaps a distinction between buying from someone else's Carrier, rather than your own. Which would be fair enough of course. I then thought that perhaps, at your own Carrier, you Transfer stuff rather than buy or sell usually, maybe that was the distinction. However, the video explicitly states - Commander says they tested it - that either method sees the Platinum lose its "mined" status, which is a problem.
Prior to the CG being public, I'd actually been planning to do a little mining anyway - I've returned from a bit of a break from the game - so, the stars aligned so to speak. I ended up NOT moving my Carrier - I was going to, but then thought I'll do it another day, before the CG was announced. As such, I missed out on a parking space where I'd usually go lol. Still, the Type 9 can carry a lot of fuel, so I can get out to my regular mining location without issue - didn't even need the fuel scoop I added just in case. I then mine for a bit, while listening to music or having a video playing on the other screen, before jumping back to my Carrier. I find it really mellow game-play personally.
Anyway, if anyone can confirm this either way, and whether the Buy/Sell vs. Transfer distinction is a thing, that'd be great. I assumed stuff transferred to my own Carrier would fully retain its "Mined" status, as it has in the past - I've never Sold to or Bought from my Carrier, it's all transfers. Carrier had no Platinum prior to this, so there was no danger of there being a mix of mined and bought. So it's "pure" in that sense. It just threw me a bit when I saw this yesterday.
