Did the latest update nerf mining?
- Thread starter RicCrouch
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Wasn't in the nav panel. I've seen that issue and was able to still get there by using the nav panel before. This time it no longer exists.
I went conventional mining in a Platinum hotspot the other night. I was actually targetting Material rich asteroids rather than anything else, however, I was surprised to see not even a single asteroid with any Platinum content at all. That's not right surely? It's called a hot spot for a reason one would imagine.
There was a bug, quite some time ago now, where you'd enter a hot spot but NOT instance in that hot spot. It was like, perfect daylight, arrive in hot spot instance and it's dark...that's weird. Leave the hot spot, only to realise you're actually half way around the planet, in another area of the rings. Don't know if that still happens, I've done hardly any mining in ages.
There was a bug, quite some time ago now, where you'd enter a hot spot but NOT instance in that hot spot. It was like, perfect daylight, arrive in hot spot instance and it's dark...that's weird. Leave the hot spot, only to realise you're actually half way around the planet, in another area of the rings. Don't know if that still happens, I've done hardly any mining in ages.
I'm far away in the black with my FC. Last night I scanned a ring, found tritium hotspot and others. Ended session. Today I jumped to the system of my FC, swapped to my mining cutter, jumped back. The hotspots were there.
But I've experienced this bug 2 patches ago. Haven't mined since until now.
Metalic rings are ring A, not ring B,, metal rich rings are deep core platinum only in ring B... if you don't take a DSS to probe rings... you must use the big empty space that separates rings as you move out from the planet for were ring A metallic and ring B metal rich/rocky swap over on the rings... if you dont youll easy end up in ring B every time not ring A...
There are no platinum laser chunks in metal rich or rocky... and never have been... if the ring letter at the bottom in not A but B you hit the wrong ring..
As the answer too the FAQ go..
If you can't find any Painite or Platinum to laser-mine, you're NOT in a metallic ring...
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Thanks for the tip. I have had issues with instancing problems though, where, when exiting the ring, I've been on the opposite side of the planet. Not seen that for a while though. Perhaps, this time, I just drifted a little far without realising it as you suggest - though instancing isn't always quite where you actually enter the rings. That said, I wasn't there for Platinum, even though I entered an area I had mined Platinum in previously, just there for some raw materials to trade up.
Is that in the Bubble? They're meant to have stopped such POIs spawning beyond 500ly or so.
Rings do rotate.
If you enter between rings, you have to be careful since they rotate at greatly different speeds. Although last time I did that you could see the core rocks but not the others, making it easy to pick out cores, but I lost a few ships due to sudden collision with otherwise invisible rocks moving at obviously incredible speeds. Haven't been back to visit that scenario, seems like a pretty cool place to be if you can survive though.
I just tested this out again, I hope I did it correctly. Targeted a fissure, placed a charge, disarmed the charge. Fissure gets untargeted automatically and cannot be targeted anymore. Launched a charge at the fissure visually, charge attached to the fissure. Core blew up as expected. So, works.
@Pville_Piper: I don't know why your charges were bouncing, but for me everything works as before.
@Pville_Piper: I don't know why your charges were bouncing, but for me everything works as before.
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HACKER! LOL... I haven't tried it yet, I have no idea, I hope that bud has slithered away.
Spent the morning fighting Scythes and Glaives, flew out to get another engineered ax multi only to find I was lacking one stinking weapons part...
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HACKER! LOL... I haven't tried it yet, I have no idea, I hope that bud has slithered away.
Spent the morning fighting Scythes and Glaives, flew out to get another engineered ax multi only to find I was lacking one stinking weapons part...
I took time from my busy schedule (the escape pods will just have to wait!) and verified the mining works fine. I made a cool 28 million with my Keelie.
I don't know what the issue was, maybe something to do with patch day... I know I wasn't the only one who had that issue. Every roid I did went overcharged super easily and if you disarmed the charge nothing would stick to it. I tried about 10 roids and just gave up. I have been doing this for a very long time and I know what I'm doing.
Anyway, back to bug killin, breaktime is over!
3.8 mining still works fine by the way with the even easier old Grid PWA incase the return of Shape and light gets to hard.. (Grid + shope + light level)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbckrxLScYk
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just in case the OP launched the wrong mode...
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just in case the OP launched the wrong mode...
ive seen lazy limpets being mentioned multiple times after u16
Doesn't explain targetting an instance on one side of a planet and exiting a few minutes later the other side. Unless those rings are moving at an excessive speed, of which there is not visual indication.
those rings can rotate pretty fast. I don't know about half a rotation in an hour, but I've spent one or two hours or so in a hotspot and both entered and left the planet's shadows.
Wel first of all, thanks everyone for the info. I THOUGHT I had done some mining fairly recently (almost sure it’s been since June) but maybe not.
The other thing that made me wonder if mining had changed had to do with the activity on y carrier. I’ve run a market on my carrier for about a year, buying minerals at a reasonable price. There’s always been a steady flow of business—until about three weeks ago. Then it came to a near screeching halt. Where I used to get several hundred tons a week, I haven’t gotten 10 in the last two weeks! Just seemed kinda weird. Everybody must be out hunting goids…..
The other thing that made me wonder if mining had changed had to do with the activity on y carrier. I’ve run a market on my carrier for about a year, buying minerals at a reasonable price. There’s always been a steady flow of business—until about three weeks ago. Then it came to a near screeching halt. Where I used to get several hundred tons a week, I haven’t gotten 10 in the last two weeks! Just seemed kinda weird. Everybody must be out hunting goids…..
My previously-mined Tritium on my FC in Colonia did a roaring trade over the past few weeks, though it's down to zero since a few days ago, all sold out. So the markets are working on FCs, it seems.