I am slightly puzzled by this. Once the DSSA carriers are deployed that whole gameplay disappears anyway! It thus seems to have a limited lifespan and in fact be largely gone already as AFAIK most are on station already.
VO mining is broken? Since when? I was out a couple of evenings ago and got loads of VO cores in a hotspot. Filled my hold in about an hour and 50 mins. 225 mil for a couple of hours is not a bad return.
I get it's not ideal for carriers to get to destinations quickly, it definitely shrinks the galaxy quite a bit, but those CMDRS are only thinking of the destination, not the journey. Think of how much they miss by doing these speed runs past countless systems waiting to be discovered. I take it as their loss. It really doesn't affect those of us who enjoy exploring and take the time to look around, other than the fact that the time required for us to mine to move to the next place is effectively cut in half.AFAIR, we (comanders who are more or less happily using FCs according to their current abilities) are guilty of "not helping the issue".
Which seems to be making FCs a instant, effortless way to teleport you and your whole fleet to any point in the Galaxy
In painite spot i got 86 tones from single rock in 10 mins from start. Also yellow rock to explode with painite happens each 5-10 mins. Or to SSD.
Look, there are 100 billions stars ... I can't map even 0.0001% of it
So yes, destination to check is important. Because I have destination with some idea - tourism, refuel somebody, check that shiny on map, check for raxxla, anything.More like "It's a game mechanic now. If you don't like it, don't do it and quit whining about it". It's not like they've made it ridiculously easier, as per your suggestion, just easier."If you don't like it don't do it"
Great.
So I have idea.
400k ly carrier's range, 10000ly jump, and free big 3 for all players
No need. Just what can be done by machine should be done by machine. Let NPC crew to mine. Thats all. I will find them spot to land, will wait. Just I don't want be main worker there."If you don't like it don't do it"
Great.
So I have idea.
400k ly carrier's range, 10000ly jump, and free big 3 for all players
Just found nice shiny B star with painite. Let's see how many will be in 1 hour on random star.
It's still doing something. Not deep space mining, but something. How many trips back and forth to Beagle point would it take for you to eventually stop mining for painite and do something else? Probably only 1 for me as that would get old, very quickly.
Yes, and completely in line with what I said about replacing deep space mining with something else. Inara currently shows just over 50k for tritium, so we've had some minor inflation, but your point stands. And that doesn't even mention the time it takes to make the cargo runs to get the tritium to your FC. Not a long time with a good size cargo ship, but still something.
VO mining never was. As I said in a VO hotspot I found enough VO cores to fill 160t hold in an hour and 50 mins. Not looking for any old yellow rock, but the bright glowing ones which indicate a core. Getting quite good at spotting cores from the run of the mill yellow rocks now. So you can make about 130 mil an hour, which is not as good as Painite, but I don’t think VO mining has ever been as profitable as Painite mining. LTD mining was so profitable due to the effect of the triple hotspot coupled with a huge price premium. Now average prices for LTD’s and Painite are about the same, but Painite gives much bigger yields per rock Painite mining is king!
