Core mining without pulse wave scanner ?

Hello,

after approx. one year, I looked at some new videos made by Obsidian Ant, just to see what is new in the ED. In one video, he described the new method of mining Opals and other materials with seismic charge launcher and abbrasion blaster etc.

So, I fitted my Python with this equipment but I have one problem. I am at Colonia and it is not possible to buy Pulse Wave scanner anywhere around here.

Is it possible to mine Opals etc. without this scanner ? I mean, is it possible to find those asteroids only visually or it is a vaste of time ?
 
It's possible, yes. The PWS only narrows the field. The VO Cores have a single shape (sort of popcorn-ish) and fissures that show up nicely if you activate night vision and get close enough - they look spider-web-y.
 
It can be done but will be much harder. Instead of getting a bright yellow aura around a potential asteroid you will have to look at the shape, then fly close and find fissures.

The shape your looking for.
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And the Fissure your looking for
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Thing is - it's easier to spot what they look like once you know - and you get to know by using a PWS (or at least that speeds things up).

Not sure why Colonia bods are flummoxed by the PWS only being in the bubble - it's hardly a long trip :)
 
Thing is - it's easier to spot what they look like once you know - and you get to know by using a PWS (or at least that speeds things up).

Not sure why Colonia bods are flummoxed by the PWS only being in the bubble - it's hardly a long trip :)
'Come to Colonia, it's great!'
:ROFLMAO:
 
Not sure why Colonia bods are flummoxed by the PWS only being in the bubble - it's hardly a long trip :)
The PWS not being available would have been a bit disappointing, but fine, lots of things aren't available.

The PWS being available consistently every day of 3.3, then disappearing consistently on the release of 3.4? That's a bit more confusing.
 
The PWS not being available would have been a bit disappointing, but fine, lots of things aren't available.

The PWS being available consistently every day of 3.3, then disappearing consistently on the release of 3.4? That's a bit more confusing.
I agree - and I believe fdev were planning to correct it - Will's holiday may have distracted him.

Doesn't distract from the basic issue: people in Colonia are surely used to certain things being unavailable (Grade A etc), so I would have expected them to be used to quick trips back on occasion.
 
Doesn't distract from the basic issue: people in Colonia are surely used to certain things being unavailable (Grade A etc), so I would have expected them to be used to quick trips back on occasion.
Sure - but if a Grade A item is not available, you can fit a lower-grade one and still do the basic things. If it was only Grade E PWSs available, people might miss the higher-grade ones, but they'd make do.

This is the first case in years when an entire equipment class has been unavailable, which is why there's a thread every week from the latest person to discover it :)
 
Sure - but if a Grade A item is not available, you can fit a lower-grade one and still do the basic things. If it was only Grade E PWSs available, people might miss the higher-grade ones, but they'd make do.

This is the first case in years when an entire equipment class has been unavailable, which is why there's a thread every week from the latest person to discover it :)
Well, I don't live in Colonia, I just visit a lot.
I'd be pretty upset about this lack though. :(
 
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