Ok Cool, so 200t per hour. 5 Hours to fill a carrier tank, 6 tanks worth of fuel needed to take me 7k ly.
So I simply mine for 30 SOLID HOURS to move 7k ly! FDev are having a ruddy Giraffe! I mean, I play about 10 hours a month!
Fleet Carriers Update - Beta 2 has now ended!
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So I simply mine for 30 SOLID HOURS to move 7k ly! FDev are having a ruddy Giraffe! I mean, I play about 10 hours a month!
They're going mine it,@250t/hr to gather 25000t will take 100hrs.
I'm a greedy so and so and used up 17000t over the course of 2 weeks.
I was seeing people claiming 250t an hour in Beta 2 in suitable hotspots, and that was without the sub-surface mining working properly, but let's be conservative and say that it doesn't end up improving on that by much at least in the early days until the really good hotspots are found.
So you'd then need 14 jumps to go that distance, call it 16 because the stars on the ends would be sparse, so two tanks or eight hours, plus a bit more time to make the jumps depending on how you distributed mining and jumping.
Whether that's quicker or slower depends on how much having only 330 range with neutron boosts or 165 with J3 diverts the route, whether you account for the time to get the Polonium in the first place, how much you get distracted by shiny things along the way, and how many people are making the trip on the same carrier to speed up the mining. Probably slower in most cases for a lone explorer, of course.
The discussion my comment is relevant to was regarding explorers having to mine for fuel, not the merits of marketing Rocket Tea. I am all for having a new market blossom, it would help relieve a lot of gripes and likely drive the price down as well. Carriers can very well become marketing hubs in this regard, especially of it's done by groups instead of individuals.
As painstaking as mining for tritium can be I'm still getting a carrier but a change I'd love to see would be the ability to gather fuel by putting carrier in orbit around certain gas giants and have it take a set time to at least fill the fuel tank, excess going into cargo would be handy too but I'd settle for just the fuel tank
Again, why don't you take miners and share the workload?
Anyway, frontier have already said they will be fixing yields. lets give them a chance, yes?
At the rate of 68hrs of mining per week,lets say 4 really dedicated miners could reach the 17hrs a week just to keep me in fuel.
I am getting peeved seeing everyone characterize mining (and only mining, it seems), as a "grind." It is no more a grind than running mission after mission of goods delivery, data courier duty, planetary scan missions (boy, did I do a lot of those!), CZ combat, REZ visits, or sussing out Guardian secrets for a mad scientist. Traveling from system to system, honking and scanning and mapping, can be tedious as hell, but that is an explorer's meat and potatoes, right? Everything takes time and effort, but that does not make everything a "grind," or if it does, then the word becomes meaningless.
Maybe you don't like mining because you're not very good at it -- combat missions can have the same drawback. Maybe assassination chores violate your Commander's personal ethics -- who knows? Trade Elite was my last of the three to earn because I am not that fond of hauling cans of sh*t for pay (or most other commodities as well) but I did it because it needed to be done to get me where I am now in the game. That is not a grind, it is how the game is played. "Grind" seems to me to mean "I don't want to make the effort, so it should be made easy and fast just for me."
TANSTAAFL.
It's not the getting there, it's the getting back!
Wow if only someone had mentioned that the tritium mining thing was an issue during one of the betas....
It's not the getting there, it's the getting back!
As shown below, the current range pretty much covers most areas and back. Just don't understand why we suddenly have an influx of hardcore explorers that must operate outside of this zone with no planning.
Tritium mining crew service is the obvious answer here. The NPC miners will gather tritium for you at X rate in systems with Y stellar bodies present.
You are talking absolute nonsense.
That would be free credits, it's not going to happen. At best we could hope for remote refuelling, or a way for NPC's to top up the main tank. A cargo hold top up is just pure profit. 300 million + credits worth of pure profit.
Most of it was arguing with people trying to convince them there was a problem,some things never changeWow if only someone had mentioned that the tritium mining thing was an issue during one of the betas....
How? You would pay to outfit the service and pay to keep it running.
Numbers not your strong point?