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Hello fellow commanders,
New to the game, only three weeks playing, but like everyone, I'm sure they have a procedure that they follow to go mining for their preferred mineral of choice. For me it's LTD in Borann A 2. I want to reference this thread that was posted a year ago, rather than necro an old thread. I'm also posting this here to see if it's actually a bug before referencing this in an official bug post. I've seen references on other websites about this being a known thing in certain systems, but nothing about fixes or workarounds, so I'd like to explore it a bit here. I apologize if this has been discussed before and my searching here didn't find it.
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In this thread the CMDR is saying that they've scanned the ring once, and when they came back a while later the hotspot circle indicators showed up in the ring, but the yellow "heat map" of the ring was not visible. Like him, I have noticed this, and tried what they did, to scan the ring again and found that since I had scanned it already, I of course couldn't scan it again. I then undertook to figure out what was happening through some basic experimentation. I'd like to share the results here, see if anyone else can replicate this, and see if anyone else would like to help in diagnosing it.
1. Position your ship outside of your preferred mining system and have the cockpit set in Analysis Mode. (I'm assuming you have already scanned the planet ring previously)
2. Jump into your mining system and travel directly to your mining planet, staying in supercruise, do not exit to normal thruster navigation.
3. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it is always visible at this point)
4. Travel to a station in the same system and dock. (for me, I used auto docking and landed at a civilian outpost in orbit, not a starport)
5. Refuel, or do anything that requires you to enter the Starport Services screen.
6. Exit the Starport Services screen and launch. (for me, I used auto launch to exit the outpost)
7. Enter supercruise and travel to your mining planet again.
8. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it never will be)
9. Return to your station and dock.
10. Exit to the main menu, but you don't have to exit the game.
11. Continue your game and reenter your ship, now docked at the station. (for me, I was in Solo mode for all of this)
12. Exit the station. (for me I used auto launch to exit the outpost)
13. Enter supercruise and travel to your planet.
14. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it is again always visible at this point)
I have Xbox One X video clips of this entire testing process for proof. The above for me is repeatable, and consistent across multiple play sessions, different days, and different ships, all on the same account.
I will continue testing different variables, such as not using auto dock and auto launch, not entering the Starport Services screen, just landing and launching again, landing at a starport or on a planet instead of an outpost, etc. but I'd like the community's help in looking at this as well.
It seems that upon the system first loading, either from outside the system and jumping into it, or from logging into it while you're docked in it, the yellow heat map works fine. As soon as the system is unloaded, or interrupted by a docking somewhere in the system, the yellow heat map disappears, but the hotspot circles stay visible.
I've watched countless mining guides on YouTube, and read multiple forum posts about selecting good areas to enter the mining hotspot areas. The guides mostly say to enter in the bright yellow small rings in your entry area vicinity. I've never seen actual evidence that entering in the bright yellow areas makes more or less of a difference over the dimmer yellow areas when it comes to either density of the asteroids or the yield, however if it does, then having the yellow heat map would be beneficial for mining efficiency. Don't get me wrong, we can all still make millions of credits per hour even without the broken yellow heat map, so even if it doesn't matter in the end if it appears or not, it still appears to be a bug that can be researched and fixed.
So, do you CMDRs have anything to add on this? Your help in testing this, and other variables in the procedure is much appreciated.
FDev, if you are interested in this, and want any more information, we're all happy too help.
New to the game, only three weeks playing, but like everyone, I'm sure they have a procedure that they follow to go mining for their preferred mineral of choice. For me it's LTD in Borann A 2. I want to reference this thread that was posted a year ago, rather than necro an old thread. I'm also posting this here to see if it's actually a bug before referencing this in an official bug post. I've seen references on other websites about this being a known thing in certain systems, but nothing about fixes or workarounds, so I'd like to explore it a bit here. I apologize if this has been discussed before and my searching here didn't find it.
Planetary Ring Hotspots Not Scanning?.
I just returned to mining after a few months and find that either I am doing it wrong or there is a bug in scanning rings for hotspots. Previously and before the last update I scanned a pristine ring in an empty system not far from my home base and had several different yellow rings of different...
In this thread the CMDR is saying that they've scanned the ring once, and when they came back a while later the hotspot circle indicators showed up in the ring, but the yellow "heat map" of the ring was not visible. Like him, I have noticed this, and tried what they did, to scan the ring again and found that since I had scanned it already, I of course couldn't scan it again. I then undertook to figure out what was happening through some basic experimentation. I'd like to share the results here, see if anyone else can replicate this, and see if anyone else would like to help in diagnosing it.
1. Position your ship outside of your preferred mining system and have the cockpit set in Analysis Mode. (I'm assuming you have already scanned the planet ring previously)
2. Jump into your mining system and travel directly to your mining planet, staying in supercruise, do not exit to normal thruster navigation.
3. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it is always visible at this point)
4. Travel to a station in the same system and dock. (for me, I used auto docking and landed at a civilian outpost in orbit, not a starport)
5. Refuel, or do anything that requires you to enter the Starport Services screen.
6. Exit the Starport Services screen and launch. (for me, I used auto launch to exit the outpost)
7. Enter supercruise and travel to your mining planet again.
8. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it never will be)
9. Return to your station and dock.
10. Exit to the main menu, but you don't have to exit the game.
11. Continue your game and reenter your ship, now docked at the station. (for me, I was in Solo mode for all of this)
12. Exit the station. (for me I used auto launch to exit the outpost)
13. Enter supercruise and travel to your planet.
14. Look at your planet and see if the yellow heat map is visible. (for me, it is again always visible at this point)
I have Xbox One X video clips of this entire testing process for proof. The above for me is repeatable, and consistent across multiple play sessions, different days, and different ships, all on the same account.
I will continue testing different variables, such as not using auto dock and auto launch, not entering the Starport Services screen, just landing and launching again, landing at a starport or on a planet instead of an outpost, etc. but I'd like the community's help in looking at this as well.
It seems that upon the system first loading, either from outside the system and jumping into it, or from logging into it while you're docked in it, the yellow heat map works fine. As soon as the system is unloaded, or interrupted by a docking somewhere in the system, the yellow heat map disappears, but the hotspot circles stay visible.
I've watched countless mining guides on YouTube, and read multiple forum posts about selecting good areas to enter the mining hotspot areas. The guides mostly say to enter in the bright yellow small rings in your entry area vicinity. I've never seen actual evidence that entering in the bright yellow areas makes more or less of a difference over the dimmer yellow areas when it comes to either density of the asteroids or the yield, however if it does, then having the yellow heat map would be beneficial for mining efficiency. Don't get me wrong, we can all still make millions of credits per hour even without the broken yellow heat map, so even if it doesn't matter in the end if it appears or not, it still appears to be a bug that can be researched and fixed.
So, do you CMDRs have anything to add on this? Your help in testing this, and other variables in the procedure is much appreciated.
FDev, if you are interested in this, and want any more information, we're all happy too help.
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