Finally tried mining properly

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I deliberately avoided it in beta and... Gosh I love it!
I noticed some new ores, even. Quite awesome ores, in fact. I was kind of bummed I'm collecting a lot of Coltan and Lepidolite from surface deposits and some gold, here and there from below the surface. Then I cracked my first asteroid open. Some stuff I have never seen before starting with "R" and I almost had a stroke when I checked it in my cargo hold. 250k/t galactic average? ANd I got 10 tonnes of it from one asteroid? And then I found another! Long story short - in the end I started throwing out gold and Painite! After less than three hours I brought back almost a 100 million credits! Tell me about income buffs.

Not without a hitch, though. I was so excited I almost ran into big trouble. My mining spot is about 300LY out from the bubble borders and I was this close to have been forced to call fuel rats for the first time. If I had a couple extra tonnes of cargo space and stayed there only a bit longer, I'd have ran out of fuel. :D
I was really running on fumes and hope the last couple of jumps.
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But boy the mining is fun. Given T9's notoriosly awkward hardpoint positioning, it's a real challenge to place those drill missiles and seizmic charges correctly.
I will have to try this in a small ship, too. The fact that the deep core mining yields SUCH rewards, even a small ship with just seizmic charge and abbrasion blaster can earn tens of millions when focused on cracking the roids.
Well, next time. Also can't wait to try the ice rings. Spotted a nice icy ring with LTD area on my way back.

TL/DR: Wow, Fdev. I always loved mining, but you've made it a dream job. Kudos. :)
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Yeah, some bugs and all, but really fun. I had been mining in the Kraits and they spoil you with hard point location. I took the T10 out for the first time yesterday and did some strip mining in a painite hotspot. I took along an abrasion blaster and a siesmic. The siesmic took some getting used to on the location I had it at, but angle it right and you get the result. If it wasn't for the prospectors running into the ship bug...
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Pville_Piper said:
Yeah, some bugs and all, but really fun. I had been mining in the Kraits and they spoil you with hard point location. I took the T10 out for the first time yesterday and did some strip mining in a painite hotspot. I took along an abrasion blaster and a siesmic. The siesmic took some getting used to on the location I had it at, but angle it right and you get the result. If it wasn't for the prospectors running into the ship bug...
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Yeah, I've lost some prospectors that way. I quickly learned to only fire them while going slow (braking in front of the roid) and hit the up thrusters slightly as it deploys.
But on the other hand, I've been pleasantly surprised by the intelligence of the collectors! They can actually navigate the cracked-open roid without killing themselves constantly, which I greatly appreciate. I even watched one colector skimming the surface of an asteroid, going around the crevices in an attempt to dislodge a chunk that was stuck there. And it succeeded! :D
 

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I actually really like the new mechanics. I just wish valuable cores and breakable rocks were more frequent. I have found 4 cores in six hours of mining. And hotspots mean nothing; RNG is still king, so even finding hotspots and spending hours can completely waste your time. Which is a shame, since the new mechanics are fun. I would love to spend time mining...but I wont, because it will just be time spent floating around wishing I could find something worth mining.
 

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Blackcompany said:
I actually really like the new mechanics. I just wish valuable cores and breakable rocks were more frequent. I have found 4 cores in six hours of mining. And hotspots mean nothing; RNG is still king, so even finding hotspots and spending hours can completely waste your time. Which is a shame, since the new mechanics are fun. I would love to spend time mining...but I wont, because it will just be time spent floating around wishing I could find something worth mining.
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You need to focus on the brightest glows, and when you find them, travel to them and continue to ping. The ones with excellent cores will often have strong and deep black/orange/red glows (along with the yellow). Bypass everything else.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Blackcompany said:
I actually really like the new mechanics. I just wish valuable cores and breakable rocks were more frequent. I have found 4 cores in six hours of mining. And hotspots mean nothing; RNG is still king, so even finding hotspots and spending hours can completely waste your time. Which is a shame, since the new mechanics are fun. I would love to spend time mining...but I wont, because it will just be time spent floating around wishing I could find something worth mining.
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The number of crack-able roids is the reason why I think the deep core mining would be better suited for smaller, fast ship, focusing only on that, instead of bulk mining.
Maybe I have been incredibly lucky on my first mining trip, but I cracked onpen a lot of roids there and didn't have trouble finding them. Like Vindy says, only focus on the roids that glow bright orange under pulse.
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Chris Simon said:
Yeah, I've lost some prospectors that way. I quickly learned to only fire them while going slow (braking in front of the roid) and hit the up thrusters slightly as it deploys.
But on the other hand, I've been pleasantly surprised by the intelligence of the collectors! They can actually navigate the cracked-open roid without killing themselves constantly, which I greatly appreciate. I even watched one colector skimming the surface of an asteroid, going around the crevices in an attempt to dislodge a chunk that was stuck there. And it succeeded! :D
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I've had them hit at 50ms and I also noted the moving the thrusters sideways works as well, just not for a long range shot... The limpets do well for the most part. I had a fragment that was in a fold of the roid and watched 2 limpets dive head first into with the expected results...

I also was really close to the rock and had 2 come park up by the canopy, that was kinda weird.

Chris Simon said:
The number of crack-able roids is the reason why I think the deep core mining would be better suited for smaller, fast ship, focusing only on that, instead of bulk mining.
Maybe I have been incredibly lucky on my first mining trip, but I cracked onpen a lot of roids there and didn't have trouble finding them. Like Vindy says, only focus on the roids that glow bright orange under pulse.
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The T10 mining with deep core equipment is like watching paint dry, the Kraits are good, but I'm still thinking about getting the Cobra IV, I had a lot of fun with that in the beta. But with the T10 I would see a bright yellow and prospect over to it and usually hit good roid on the way as I was in a painite hotspot and it was very common.

Personally, I don't get the attitude that stuff should just fall into our lap, that crackable rocks should be very common or just full of the really good stuff. Where's the gameplay? Are you looking for stuff or do you just want your hold magically filled while cruising the ring? Sometimes you find quite a few, sometimes you go awhile before seeing them. I think it is about right the way it is now.

This whole nonsense about the PWS should be tunable to frequency so you can just ping and the good stuff magically appears. This is just another god honk and would make mining too easy. You might as well just be given 10 million credits just for mounting mining equipment.

You want easy money? Just fill a T9 with medicine and head over to the nearest outbreak system... Easy money. I want gameplay and now I have it in spades. Fix the bugs and I'm golden baby.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Man, Cobra mk.IV is actually an excellent idea! Haven't taken her for a spin in ages and completely forgot about her. Now I wonder if which god-forsaken corner of the galaxy she's gathering dust. I hope it's not Colonia. :D :D

Thanks, you just gave me a plan for the evening.
 

TheSisko

TheSisko
Pville_Piper said:
Personally, I don't get the attitude that stuff should just fall into our lap, that crackable rocks should be very common or just full of the really good stuff. Where's the gameplay? Are you looking for stuff or do you just want your hold magically filled while cruising the ring? Sometimes you find quite a few, sometimes you go awhile before seeing them. I think it is about right the way it is now.

This whole nonsense about the PWS should be tunable to frequency so you can just ping and the good stuff magically appears. This is just another god honk and would make mining too easy. You might as well just be given 10 million credits just for mounting mining equipment.

You want easy money? Just fill a T9 with medicine and head over to the nearest outbreak system... Easy money. I want gameplay and now I have it in spades. Fix the bugs and I'm golden baby.
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Repped. Motherlodes should be rare to find and pay well when you find them. They shouldn't be all over the place. FD have got that right.
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
Chris Simon said:
Thanks, you just gave me a plan for the evening.
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You're welcome, but if it's too far off, just buy, there're cheap!

The only thing about the C4 that gives me pause is mining with Vin, it's hard enough too keep up in an engineered Phantom! Every time you look, he's 50-100 km away!
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Pville_Piper said:
You're welcome, but if it's too far off, just buy, there're cheap!

The only thing about the C4 that gives me pause is mining with Vin, it's hard enough too keep up in an engineered Phantom! Every time you look, he's 50-100 km away!
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Hahah, you're mining together? :D
That's awesome. I've always been a loner.

As for the transferring vs. re-buying the Cobra, well, I have a personal attachment to my ships. If I bought a new one, it wouldn't feel right. :)
 
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