First Thoughts On Mining...
- Thread starter Seizewell Warrior
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Just checking you are not individually targeting items for collection, as the collector drone will expire right away. If you launch the collectors without targeting things, they continually collect till they expire.
Yeah painite is painfree. Was nerf a typo or has a secret meaning?
'nerf' is a commonly used term to describe the act of reducing the benefit gained from a particular activity in a computer game.
Example usage: 'Wow, I just checked the mission board at Robigo and there are no long-distance smuggling missions, have Frontier nerfed them?'
This was fun to track down while I waited for the livestream.
See also: https://nerf.hasbro.com/en-gb[SIZE=4]Raphael R. Koster [/SIZE]talking about Ultima Online said:
S'funny, it took me two years to make half a billion credits.
To put that in perspective, I'd already completed both Naval Ranks (so I was fairly well along the "progression" path) and my Cutter was outfitted specifically to earn credits.
We had several CGs, one after the other, in Kamadhenu, to provide the materials to build the stations in Rohini, Gandharvi and Kashyapa between the bubble and Colonia.
I earned a lot of credits in those CGs - or, at least, what was considered "a lot" of credits in those days.
My bank balance went up from Cr250m to about Cr550m in three weeks!
I earned Cr600m last night, while I was waiting for my notoriety to settle down after doing some sketchy stuff.
I gotta admit, I do enjoy having mining as an bottomless pit of credits but I don't like the way it's rendered the mission-board almost completely redundant.
Maybe that's a deliberate strategy from FDev, to reduce the load on the mission-server?
+EDIT+
Here's a pic' (dated 13th September 2017) of me and my faithful Cutter relaxing on a planet in Kamadhenu, after 3 weeks of frantic CGing to earn Cr300m.
Good times.
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No I definitely leave it to run - the amount one limpet can fetch varies but have found 6 or 7 to be an optimum number of chunks before I need to relaunch.
Currently working on a serendipitie (!) area as that seems to sell quite well, not the 600k + per unit EDDB promised where I landed but good enough.
Anyhow on a lighter note it strikes me that FDev effectively reinvented a more in depth version of Asteroids, or maybe that old shareware "Transplant" on the Amiga (which I broke a joystick playing). I'm definitely having fun with this and of course each 8 - 10 million worth of credits haul I sell, adds significantly to my Trader rank.
I am reminded of the first game-breaking bug Frontier ever wrote.
Way back in 1984, the original BBC Micro version of Elite came on cassette tape. It had asteroids but, because it had to be small, it did not have mining lasers.
When the new version came out on floppy disk, we all breathlessly bought it, wanting to become miners. Unfortunately someone had left a debug flag set when they cut the golden master. The game now had mining lasers, but there were no asteroids.
And of course there were no patches in those days. We had to put our dreams on hold until we got the BBC Master version and the computer to run it. Whereupon it became obvious that mining was a terrible way to earn money.
I certainly remember in Amiga (and my early PC) days, waiting for patches to turn up on magazine cover discs.
i reckon there's room for a comment about small seismic charges in this thread, I'm just not sure how i will get it in... oh wait!
Actually when I call up "Seismic charges" I always think about Aliens when the marines and Ripley first enter the terraforming base, "Small arms fire and seismic survey charges."
Then out scanning I always think of a variation from Stargate - "System scan complete" = "System Lord complete."
All that time in The Black, does things to the mind, you know...
Then out scanning I always think of a variation from Stargate - "System scan complete" = "System Lord complete."
All that time in The Black, does things to the mind, you know...
"Friendship Drive Charging"
I did and I was amazed. I went in my KraitII and it wasn't big enough. I will be bringing my miningVette today. TY
GL HF Commander
Would you shed some light on this as specifically as you can, am about to try DC mining for this first time and I don't quite understand what's meant by ' hopping in and out of suercruise' and the part it plays in locating good rocks. Please expalin as if I were a very slow child, one you're generally fond of though.
For sure, you won't get rich mining in a Cobra. You can mine in a Cobra, you can do almost anything in a Cobra as long as you realize it will be on the SMALL scale.
For my credits (and I have a bunch) my Corvette is the best miner in the game. Enough room for 3 limpet controllers, big refinery, scanners, all the cool mining tools, weapons, plenty of room for cargo and enough power to run them all. In my Corvette I was earning a lot of credits every few hours. o7
For my credits (and I have a bunch) my Corvette is the best miner in the game. Enough room for 3 limpet controllers, big refinery, scanners, all the cool mining tools, weapons, plenty of room for cargo and enough power to run them all. In my Corvette I was earning a lot of credits every few hours. o7
When Starship Enterprises did their mining CG event, I decided to rig my ExploraConda as a fully-fledged miner and winged it out there with the entire mining suite. This was useful because the CG had a number of different minerals as targets, some core and some not. I "got gud" with all the tools, but it was the Monazite cores that earned the best bank, and the CG earned me about 600M all told and my Trade Elite decal as well. Since then I've given up the lesser mining methods and concentrated on core mining exclusively, and bought and rigged a Python for the task -- agile even in the close quarters between rock chunks and with enough cargo to make it worthwhile. I could make more in the 'Conda but it is now a dedicated long-haul exploration vehicle. I don't sweat not getting VOs, my primary prey, because I plan my sessions around stations that offer the highest prices for all the higher-end minerals -- Alexandrite, Grandiderite, LTDs, and a couple more, all frequently show in VO hotspots, but I take them all in, I find it's more economical time-wise. My average haul is round 250M and four runs a week for ~ 1Bcr seems OK to me.
Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know....
You can often "get another go" at stuff in ED by jumping in and out of SC.
For example, you go to a RES and don't find any pirate ships worth exploding - hop back into SC, turn around, drop back out of SC and you're in a new instance where there might be better ships to explode.
Some people seem to think this applies to DC mining - you're not finding any DC roids, you hop in and out of SC, you're in a new instance and you might get more DC roids.
This is incorrect.
The locations of DC roids within a ring is persistent. It doesn't change when you enter a new instance.
People have verified this by mapping a ring and reliably being able to locate DC roids each time they visit the ring.
So, with all that said, all I was saying was that if you've had no luck finding DC roids and you hop into SC and then drop back out again, if you do have more luck finding DC roids it'll simply because you're in a slightly different part of the ring, where there are more DC roids to be found.
It won't be because you're in a new instance, where the RNG has decided to give you more DC roids to find.
Course, there's nothing wrong with hopping in and out of SC in a ring.
If you're not finding any DC roids, hop back into SC, fly a couple of hundred km and then drop back into the ring.
You might have more luck in a different spot.
Then again, if you'd stayed where you were you might've found 3 or 4 DC roids all one after the other.
Ouch, thats about 126mil credits. Perhaps get better shields.
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THAT is an excellent idea!!
Rear mirror
Whats in my back? Look in the rear mirror. Placement? To be switched on or off under the Info Panel. Kudos to CMDR Maylor Rom https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/first-thoughts-on-mining.526398/post-8090240