How to pirate low temperature diamonds.

[sibullski]

hey everyone so recently I figured out how to find and steal low temp diamonds I figured I would share it with all of you.

step 1. Find a highly populated agricultural system that is in boom.

step 2. Make sure the station and the star are within 500 to 100 ls of each other because that is how you get the most traffic density although with that being said you can still find low temp diamonds in agricultural economies that have a faraway station I just personally don't like doing it because from my experience it means you have to wait longer.

step 3. When you see a freighter face the ship and wait for your supercruise scan to complete then go over to the left side panel and look under sub targets. If you don't see a refinery don't bother interdicting them wait until you see a freighter that has one.

step 4. Once you have found a ship with a refinery interdict it and use your cargo scanner on it. If the ship is carrying low temp diamonds don't attack it wait for him to high wake to another system then scan the wake and follow him. If the freighter goes to another populated system just interdict him again and wait for him to leave then scan the wake, keep doing this until he ends up in a system that is unpopulated.

step 5. Once you have interdicted him in an unpopulated system take out his powerplant and then lower his hull to 10 percent. The reason you lower the hull is because it causes the hatch breakers to nullify the hack time, meaning the hack time no longer matters. If the ship is at 10 percent hull it will drop the diamonds immediately.

step 6. Pirate the helpless ships and then find a black market to sell the goods.

Here is an instructional stream I did on twitch if you care to watch it.

https://www.twitch.tv/sibullski/v/82376067

 

[Thepirateorc]

I guess this would help with those missions asking for them but how much do you get most of the time from doing it

 

[sibullski]

It's pretty hard to say but typically between 90 and 160

 

[Crusina Luachra]

I approve.

 

[ilo]

awesome! repped!

 

[ilo]

You apologised in the video because you didn't cut it, I have to say this is the best thing of the whole video. 1h of unedited piracy gameplay to show all the aspects of it is what most of people is missing! thanks for that

 

[sibullski]

You apologised in the video because you didn't cut it, I have to say this is the best thing of the whole video. 1h of unedited piracy gameplay to show all the aspects of it is what most of people is missing! thanks for that

well thanks man I appreciate it I'm glad I was able to help someone

 

[ilo]

also, I'm aware people has found the -how/when/where- diamond haulers spawn earlier, bit I'm sure you are the first one making it public, so kudos to you!

 

[sibullski]

also, I'm aware people has found the -how/when/where- diamond haulers spawn earlier, bit I'm sure you are the first one making it public, so kudos to you!

really where did you see people who had figured it out because I looked everywhere trying to find out how to do it and for the life of me I just couldn't and also thanks I appreciate.

 

[ilo]

really where did you see people who had figured it out because I looked everywhere trying to find out how to do it and for the life of me I just couldn't and also thanks I appreciate.

mm

I found diamonds recently and a piratey way to obtain them
in huge amounts without any duds.
Piracy never was as dangerous to my ship, as it is now to
get my dirty hands on those sweet diamonds.

I know Julio Montega and I know he is telling the truth. TLDR, you are not the first person talking about pirating diamonds, but you are the first one publicly saying where.

 

[ilo]

you can find previous discussions in this post:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/259409-Where-to-find-diamond-haulers

 

[mung0]

step 5. Once you have interdicted him in an unpopulated system take out his powerplant and then lower his hull to 10 percent. The reason you lower the hull) is because it causes the hatch breakers to open the hatch immediately, without any 'hack time' when hull is less than 10%.

Finished that sentence for you. Didn't know that trick, you explained in the vid though.

Brilliant guide, kudos! ø7

 

[KingBlueRatKill]

Love this commity. Learnt so much from you fellow Cmdrs. Is there a better one?!?

Thanks for sharing this, much kudos to you Sir.

Fly safe o7

 

[Codger]

Fascinating, I've never thought much about piracy. I found this educational, though Thanks for the great vid.

I do have one question - why do you target each collector, using 1 for each cannister of cargo? Why not just deploy them untargeted, and let them pick stuff up like you do when mining? Wouldn't that be easier?

Anyway, thanks for the info. Perhaps it will come in handy sometime when I suddenly change into a pirate costume and storm the skies!

 

[sibullski]

thanks for all the positive feedback it's greatly appreciated I'm glad it helped some of you.


Ah I see Ilo well thanks for the info I was just curious because I looked around madly for a way to pirate diamonds and I guess I still pack my hull full of limpets because I'm just used to it at this point before I could pirate diamonds I would pull over ships that had say 50 imp slaves and 100 biowaste which is why having all those limpets used to come in handy.

 

[Codger]

You didn't answer my question about why you target each limpet

 

[Tony150870]

Great video. enjoyed it, thanks.

 

[Ouberos]

Some thought has gone into this. I like the cut of your gib.

(or is it jib? Who knows. rep anyway.)

 

[sibullski]

You didn't answer my question about why you target each limpet

yeah I did lol. it's on the first page I said I target each limpet because I'm so used to pirating that way because before I could find low temp diamonds that was the only way to get all the good cargo out. It's on the first page

 

[mung0]

yeah I did lol. it's on the first page I said I target each limpet because I'm so used to pirating that way because before I could find low temp diamonds that was the only way to get all the good cargo out. It's on the first page

Limpets controlled by this module can collect canisters and asteroid chunks automatically. Two modes of operation are possible. First a chunk or canister can be collected quickly by deploying the limpet whilst targeting the object in question; this will consume the limpet. Second a limpet can be deployed with no collectable object targeted and will result in the limpet entering a slower autonomous mode where it will collect any available object automatically for a set time.

The way you're doing it, a limpet is consumed for every piece of cargo scooped. 1:1 ratio. e.g. 100 cargo to collect, 100 limpets fired.

But if you launch your collectors with no target selected, those same 4 limpets will keep going and clean up all the spoils. 100 cargo to collect, only 4 limpets required. It also means you don't need to faff continually selecting targets either.

Still a great guide though