Newcomer / Intro Could someone explain core mining to me?

DjVortex

DjVortex
Has core mining changed somehow in recent months (like so many other things)? I swear it didn't use to be this difficult in the past.

I target a fissure on an asteroid, launch a seismic charge, and there's (at least now) perhaps a 10% chance it will stick. Or rather, with about 10% of fissures. With 90% of them the charge just bounces off. It doesn't matter how well I aim, how close I am what the strength of the charge I set. It just bounces off. I can shoot all 72 charges at the fissure, and they all bounce off. I try another fissure, they all bounce off. Doesn't matter where the charge hits, it just bounces off.

What is it that I'm missing here?

I have core-mined before, quite a long time ago. Back then pretty much every single seismic charge stuck in pretty much every single fissure. Now almost none of them do.
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
DjVortex said:
Has core mining changed somehow in recent months (like so many other things)? I swear it didn't use to be this difficult in the past.

I target a fissure on an asteroid, launch a seismic charge, and there's (at least now) perhaps a 10% chance it will stick. Or rather, with about 10% of fissures. With 90% of them the charge just bounces off. It doesn't matter how well I aim, how close I am what the strength of the charge I set. It just bounces off. I can shoot all 72 charges at the fissure, and they all bounce off. I try another fissure, they all bounce off. Doesn't matter where the charge hits, it just bounces off.

What is it that I'm missing here?

I have core-mined before, quite a long time ago. Back then pretty much every single seismic charge stuck in pretty much every single fissure. Now almost none of them do.
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I'm back to the game after a longer pause, and I see many things that are different. Core mining is not one of them. I have probably core mined 6 billion credits, and I have had no problem having seismic charges stick to fissures. Not before I left, not after I came back. Are you sure you hit them at a proper angle?
 

GroG79

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Sound like your seismic charge are not in a hardpoint in the center of your ship. Learn to correct the offset. I have mine in the left nacelle of the Cutter. I need to miss by more than a full seismic charge reticule to hit my target (depending on the distance to the rock)

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