Ok being seeing quite a few mining missions at my local system so thought I would take a break from my usual haulage job and try mining. So found several missions wanting bromellite and some methanol monohydrate, thought no problem several pristine rings nearby why not. Ok 2-3 hours later and 300 limpets or so later(had to make several trips for these) I've got 36% of 1t of Methanol and 85% of 1t of Bromellite. So I'm either doing something wrong here or this is totally a waste of my time. I guess miner don't do it for the cash.:|
Guess miners don't do it for the money....
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This is all set to change in about 3 weeks time. Dramatically. I'm not saying it'll suddenly be worth it, something tells me that will take a few attempts from FD to balance out, and that's fine, but the act of mining itself and finding the minerals you want is about to be completely different.
... plus, it does seem he's doing it wrong. No point in correcting though, as it all changes soon 
Going to go with “doing it wrong”.
I make mints Mining, and rarely mission mining, as that leads to annoyance.
Crystal Meth Mining is always profitable, but requires both a decent mining rig and some know-how.
Prospector limpets and the Ignore list are your two most powerful tools. These ensure you find what you’re looking for, in quantities worth the effort, and before birthday toxicity kills you.
Collector limpets keep you from chewing through your wrists out of frustration, so that just leaves the real estate itself. Pristine Rings and Haz RES (within 10 km of the marker) are going to have the best payout.
Depleted Reserves are going to suck, and rest will just suck less.
I make mints Mining, and rarely mission mining, as that leads to annoyance.
Crystal Meth Mining is always profitable, but requires both a decent mining rig and some know-how.
Prospector limpets and the Ignore list are your two most powerful tools. These ensure you find what you’re looking for, in quantities worth the effort, and before birthday toxicity kills you.
Collector limpets keep you from chewing through your wrists out of frustration, so that just leaves the real estate itself. Pristine Rings and Haz RES (within 10 km of the marker) are going to have the best payout.
Depleted Reserves are going to suck, and rest will just suck less.
Good thinking, I should have fitted out the T9 for mining instead of the Python. Filled the cargo bay and then looked for the missions.Mine first look for missions with a full hold
Mine first look for missions with a full hold
How does this workout for you? I swear it always seems like mission board scan cargo to ask for what you DON'T have.
It always feels that way.
But Dom has always assured us that the mission code doesn't peek in your cargo.
That's debatable. If you come in a small ship and immediately find a rock to crack with a good motherlode and leave in 10mins, sure it seems like a good way to spend your time. If you come in a big ship and try to fill your hold you might be spending hours not finding any rocks to crack or don't have a good motherlode.
It's like the old system expect the payouts (and flaws) are magnified.
It is all relative. First thing is that I am not comparing it to other professions, for example we get people here complain that they can't make good money hauling freight (experienced cmdrs know that is not true) So putting aside the fact that I won't be earning 50+ mill an hour (nor expect to)
On a current mining trip I'll earn around 9 mill per trip (in a couple of hours) in the Beta (after carefully reading advice from cmdrs) I was far exceeding that.
Definitely not having issues finding asteroids to crack, however it will likely be just like trading, cmdrs posting that they can't find asteroids, advice is given, people ignore it.. The circle of life in ED.
Personally I'll be kitting out a T-10 for motherlode hunting, going on 7 Day trips combining it with exploration. I'll be returning to port and receiving a huge payout, no doubt about it.
I like mining and I've made good money the issue is you need a good system and you need to be experienced at mining or you lose prospectors and don't find yields.
Stacking missions really boost income and doing it in a wing adds trade dividends for each player. My personal opinion though you need a medium or large ship it's just not profitable in smaller ships compared to other careers. Mining isn't boring it isn't point it isn't dead its just niche.
Very relaxing and something you can do whilst chatting or watching vids..... just miffed Frontier changed the Dropship to have military slots it used to be a fun but expensive miner.
Stacking missions really boost income and doing it in a wing adds trade dividends for each player. My personal opinion though you need a medium or large ship it's just not profitable in smaller ships compared to other careers. Mining isn't boring it isn't point it isn't dead its just niche.
Very relaxing and something you can do whilst chatting or watching vids..... just miffed Frontier changed the Dropship to have military slots it used to be a fun but expensive miner.
I love this type of mining ,I do it out in Colonia.I go out and find new pristine rings within 150ly then mine them and come home to the adulation of the natives-)).
considering moneywise, mining is Live is massively underwhelming comapred to what you can make with other tasks.
When the beta content hits live payot is a lot better for many things, especially core mining. Still not competitive to the big moneymaker tasks. But surely well paid enough to actually see some proper progression on your cr balance to actually buy better ships and upgrade them as well.
And with this progression I mean, you can mine in an adder and upgrade to a cobra mKiV after oen successful core mining run of the new high value materials. thats a pretty nice tansition. and after that you could even gop to the ASP Explorer.
When the beta content hits live payot is a lot better for many things, especially core mining. Still not competitive to the big moneymaker tasks. But surely well paid enough to actually see some proper progression on your cr balance to actually buy better ships and upgrade them as well.
And with this progression I mean, you can mine in an adder and upgrade to a cobra mKiV after oen successful core mining run of the new high value materials. thats a pretty nice tansition. and after that you could even gop to the ASP Explorer.
Actually, I don't agree that the new mining is completely different because it's additive to the existing mining. As it stands at the moment, I'm probably not going to do much more mining with the enhanced mining than I did before. For me the new beta mining has been more engaging but mostly tedious! It's disappointing because I've always wanted to like it.