it wouldn't be an issue if some whales didn't absorb all available plankton
CMM Composite??
- Thread starter Brian of Earth
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- Did you make sure to set your Inara search to min-500 supply?
- are you making sure you go to high population systems (at least 5m is my threshold)
- are you ensuring you don't focus soley on CMMs? Grab what is available and fill the rest of your space with titanium/ steel etc.
- Edit: fot an SCO and prefer to visit locations 10k Ls away, as these are usually not frequented, but just as convenient thanks to the sco.
It you do the above, you should be netting at least 200 per visit to a station... more than enough when combined with the above methods to get what you need, as you should be going back with ~200t of cmm minimum, plus 500t of steel or titanium.... but you can pretty reliably get 300-600t cmm per run with that.
If you're only getting 20t or so per station, you're looking at the wrong stations.
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Keep in mind Frontier changed supply just a few days ago.
Any refinery with EDDN data older than that is potentially waiting for a commander to visit it with a very likely ~5x higher amount than it shows on Inara. This way even 80-120 supply ones are useful visits (especially coupled with the helpful tip you've given about not just bringing CMMs from the visits).
In the area I've been shipping CMM from, 80% of those were still old supply values.
Or if Frontier just made it a normal commodity with similar values to that of steel, titanium, etc... (50k to 2 million supply per port)
I strongly agree with this. CMMs are the only thing stopping colonization from being mostly A->B->A from the same single location until the commodity is done.
There is more than a 1:3 ratio of other commodities you can also bring from the port like Liquid Oxygen, Ceramic Composites, Steel, Titanium, Aluminium. So for a 752 ton T9/Cutter, in theory a 250 supply of CMM is enough.
Oh, yeah, I mean, Step 1 of finding CMMs is for the love of all that's holy don't use Inara to be quite frank, but who's ever going to listen to that? That step about "min supply set to 500" is purely there for people who want to do this the hard way. As far as I can tell, Inara critically lacks the ability to search for commodities with system population as a criteria.
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I didn't find getting the CMM for my outpost all that difficult, almost every port I went to had between 4 and 6 hundred some had over 1000, I bought what I could, then filled my cutter with titanium or steel and jumped back. I got all the CMM in about 2 hours, finished the entire outpost only took 10.
I get it that the numbers for a full sized station are high but if you're not doing it on the timer it's not that bad.
I get it that the numbers for a full sized station are high but if you're not doing it on the timer it's not that bad.
Ok then tell me how to find specific commodity in the game, without grinding the UI at first, just to find specific factories because, only main orientation of the system is shown, click number is crazy because UI resets itself at each request, then grinding the 50-70s loading screens at second to buy as much exploration data as possible and grinding more UI ?
eg : I found non-lethal weapons at reasonable price in an odyssey military settlement
Lucky for you i wrote a guide.
Finding scarce goods without Inara
UPDATE: FD seem to have buffed CMM supplies quite substantially now, so the specific example below is now somewhat redundant, but in general this guide still works for finding scarce goods. UPDATE 2: Insulating Membranes are the next FOTM, but again, this guide is equally applicable ...Or CMMs...
Then just for fun ok ?Lucky for you i wrote a guide.
Finding scarce goods without Inara
UPDATE: FD seem to have buffed CMM supplies quite substantially now, so the specific example below is now somewhat redundant, but in general this guide still works for finding scarce goods. UPDATE 2: Insulating Membranes are the next FOTM, but again, this guide is equally applicable ...Or CMMs...forums.frontier.co.uk
"Which would you pick?" -> I go elsewhere, prices are too high. Call me stingy-grumpy guy !
Doesn't seem to have been. Checking a few of the refineries near me, the CMM is regenerating faster than the Steel and Titanium do.
So I've switched now to "pick up all the Steel and Titanium and fill the spare capacity with CMM".
Raise biowaste! Eat more beans!Raise Steel/Titanium supply!!!
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I think it is. Been seeing a constant 4100 supply in a system near me, and I've taken 2k so far
So in less than a week the CMM production methods have gone all the way from "entire CMM bubble supply struggles to keep up with 1 T3 demand" to "any single CMM port can now feed the entire colonization effort".