Engineers How to get phosphorus w/out using SRV

lomac

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I love flying my ships.

I just hate driving an SRV. I hate the controls and the handling. I have other materials I need from blowing up ships and collecting their drops - I like doing that.

Clicking on Phosphorus in the workshop shows that it can be collected from asteroids. I've never tried mining but for me that would be preferable to driving in an SRV.

How would you find phosphorus in asteroids? Do I go to resource extraction sites and just start mining and then it's just RNG?

Are there certain types of planets / ring material that have a higher drop rate?

Thank you for your time, Commanders.
 

z33r0x

z33r0x
Yo lomac, a tip, for a really fast farming, fit a ship with about 2 medium mining lasers, and make sure that you can use them until the asteroid is depleted, and don't forget to use A rated Prospector limpets to give maximum yield. Don't install a refinery, if you don't the collector limpets will ignore the minerals, and only pick up materials. I have recieved phosphorus from every asteroid field I have been at, and haven't even been at prestine reserves that much, only once. Good luck!
 

lomac

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Thanks again guys. I outfitted my Anaconda for mining, replaced C2 pulses with 2 C2 mining lasers (that depletes an asteroid in less than a minute), a refinery (just because), and 2 collector controllers (so I could have 6 limpets out at once) and 1 prospector controller.

Took a mining mission too (to get 24 osmium for 1.3mil) just for the heck of it.

Got tons of materials, discovered new materials, tons of phosphorus etc. Only ever got one Vanadium. I was there for about 3 hours with 6 limpets going the whole time (had to run back to buy more and dump stuff once).

I tried it without the refinery too (so only materials dropped from the asteroids).

Mining definitely is not a good money maker (compared to long range smuggling, I can make 15 mil in < 1 hr doing that, used to be way more). But it was a fun experience to try with all the limpets going around grabbing stuff.

I read on where to get Vanadium, it really seems like you have to SRV to get some of these materials as they are more common on planets, I just hate the whole SRV experience. I don't mind landing on planets, etc. I just hate the driving experience. Maybe I'll just take a break and see what happens in a while. Everything seems to be driving us (no pun) to the SRV (planetary assassination, skimmers, etc.)
 

DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
lomac said:
I love flying my ships.

I just hate driving an SRV. I hate the controls and the handling. I have other materials I need from blowing up ships and collecting their drops - I like doing that.

Clicking on Phosphorus in the workshop shows that it can be collected from asteroids. I've never tried mining but for me that would be preferable to driving in an SRV.

How would you find phosphorus in asteroids? Do I go to resource extraction sites and just start mining and then it's just RNG?

Are there certain types of planets / ring material that have a higher drop rate?

Thank you for your time, Commanders.
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On some planets phosphorus is in every other rock. Its one of the easiest things to get really. If we could trade materials, I'd let you have most of my stash.
 
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Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
Mining. I'm getting so much phosphorus I need to discard it. Same with carbon, iron, nickel and sulphur. These five materials are so common in rings (any rings) that they are just trash.
 

Durden T.

Durden T.
DragoonKnight said:
On some planets phosphorus is in every other rock. Its one of the easiest things to get really. If we could trade materials, I'd let you have most of my stash.
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Why on earth we still cannot trade and make payments between commanders? Does FD not see how the game experience and the interaction with other players would benefit by doing so?

It may be a reason not to, but I simply don't see it...

(Sorry for the off-topic)
 

bullfrog

bullfrog
My guess would be dev time / priorities @Durden T.

I am not defending the indefensible as I agree player trading seems necessary. Frontier are making progress and compared to some, it is quite rapid. Its just that the game launched as a minimum viable product which I still think was a smart and probably necessary move. Personally I have played it only occasionally since launch but I get the feeling its beginning to come together now as they have begun to squash some of the more egregious bugs which previously shattered immersion.

I wouldnt say it was done, at all, but the feeling that I am playing Elite is beginning to return which previously was not the case.
 

Mikey2305

Mikey2305
Mining is my favourite activity at the moment. I have never done smuggling missions so am well happy with the rate of pay. I personally dont think that player trading would add anything to the game.

If mining for metals, the common materials like phosphorous, sulphur etc are so common that they are hard to get rid of. If mining for materials then its better to just target medium and high content asteroids, blast away and only pick up what you need by individually targeting them and letting your limpet die. I have found all the arsenic and germanium i could ever need this way

@iomac... have never used an SRV and have no intention of doing so. Everything i have needed has been through other means
 

Nardypants

Nardypants
I don't want to condemn your tastes, but I have great difficulty seeing the rationality of your choice to look for other options to surface prospection. I just can't understand why you wouldn't spend less than 15 minutes in an SRV and get a way better yield than what you could get from missions or mining. The drop rate is really good, and if you want to make the driving easier, restrict your landfall choices to 1G (or more) planets.

You'll have to spend so much more time mining or waiting for a mission with the right rewards, you must really, really, hate driving for this choice to be viable. I'd say, from what I got from your OP, that you should spend just a little more time taking the control scheme in. I was horrible at it at first but I became quite good after a short while.
 

Mikey2305

Mikey2305
@nardypants... not sure if addressed to me or the OP but i will chip in anyway. My reason for not using the SRV is that i had horizons from the outset but didnt use it till much later by which the community had moved on and the gossip had stopped. And when i got around to it, i discovered that i had not a clue about how to drive it, what keys to use and how to set them up. So i can land on the planet, deploy it and the jolly thing just refuses to move. I have asked for help and received many kind responses but none of them at the SRV for dummies that i require. Even the Tutorial assumes a basic knowledge that is beyond me. So i decided that i would manage without and so far quite successfully. So thats my sorry story and if you or someone else would take me through the basic steps such as which key to bind and how, then I would be exceedingly grateful and happy to catch up with all the stuff i have missed!
 

Arnoldo

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Mikey2305 said:
@nardypants... not sure if addressed to me or the OP but i will chip in anyway. My reason for not using the SRV is that i had horizons from the outset but didnt use it till much later by which the community had moved on and the gossip had stopped. And when i got around to it, i discovered that i had not a clue about how to drive it, what keys to use and how to set them up. So i can land on the planet, deploy it and the jolly thing just refuses to move. I have asked for help and received many kind responses but none of them at the SRV for dummies that i require. Even the Tutorial assumes a basic knowledge that is beyond me. So i decided that i would manage without and so far quite successfully. So thats my sorry story and if you or someone else would take me through the basic steps such as which key to bind and how, then I would be exceedingly grateful and happy to catch up with all the stuff i have missed!
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Hi Cmdr, I saw a previous post re issues with driving SRV but presumed all had been resolved by now. If you're a KB&M user, I may be able to help
 

Mikey2305

Mikey2305
Please do, my good friend! I use a combination of keyboard, mouse and joystick which is a logitech extreme pro. I rhink i am using generic mappings in so far as it works out of the box and i have never needed to alter my setting and do not really understand how to....
 

Zieman

Zieman

Iskariot

Iskariot
Durden T. said:
Why on earth we still cannot trade and make payments between commanders? Does FD not see how the game experience and the interaction with other players would benefit by doing so?

It may be a reason not to, but I simply don't see it...

(Sorry for the off-topic)
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From what I gathered FD is not really averse to material trading (Sandro very recently said something to that accord if I remember correctly), but I suppose implementation of such a mechanism is not as easy as one might think.
Obviously FD's to-do list is huge and this is not on top.
 
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