So, I went LTD mining and I didn't want to travel too far so I just went until I found the nearest LTD hotspot. Now I know that there will be much less diamonds in a single hotspot then one of those triple overlapping hotspots but, after an hour of searching I didn't find a single diamond asteroid. Eventually I just gave up and re-outfitted my krait for bounty hunting. The same thing happened with painite later. Is there something I am doing wrong? I'm pretty sure I went to the right belt types.
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Newcomer / Intro LTD Mining help?
- Thread starter andrew vdm
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Yes, I was in icy rings.
Think it's something that needs fixing. They are colloquially known as "notspots". If it's money you want, painite is your poison.
I brought medium mining lasers and I fired limpets at asteroids I was only using an E-rated size 1 controller. Do I need a better limpet controller?
Should I just stick to confirmed hotspots then?
If they've been confirmed as high yield, then I would.
Edit. A lot depends on RNG though...
Edit. A lot depends on RNG though...
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This is incorrect. The type of mining generally depends on what you are after. LTD mining was historically done using laser mining because it was more efficient, not because they could not be core mined. Void Opals are an icy ring mineral that only exists in cores and cannot be laser mined. For a brief stint, LTD subsurface mining was all the rage before patch 3 after fleet carrier update essentially broke icy ring mechanics. Because of this and market changes, LTD mining is no longer very profitable and painite is back on the menu.
I suggest using A rated collector limpet controlers as they increase limpet lifetime. For the prospectors you really should be using an A rated controller as prospecting an asteroid multiplies the number of fragments by a factor dependent on the class of the prospector controller. E-rated gives a factor 1.5 while A-rated gives a factor 3.5. Not using A-rated prospectors therefore costs you more than half the yield ...
Huh I always thought that A rating only increased the number of prospector limpets you could have out at a time.
So I actually went mining today to unlock Selene.
LTD laser mining in a single pristine hotspot wasn't too bad. I took a T6 out and was bringing back around 30t per run...
Then I upgraded to an Orca and brought back another 60t, about 1/2 my cargo capacity...
On average I'd say i had to prospect 10-15 rocks before I found a decent LTD rock. Best I saw was a 33% rock.
A kind player had parked a fleet carrier next to the ring and was buying diamond for 550k per t, so I settled and sold some Tritium as a thank you.
Not sure if this is any help. Can give you the system name if it helps...
ICZ JN-S B4-6
Carrier was called 'Essene'.
LTD laser mining in a single pristine hotspot wasn't too bad. I took a T6 out and was bringing back around 30t per run...
Then I upgraded to an Orca and brought back another 60t, about 1/2 my cargo capacity...
On average I'd say i had to prospect 10-15 rocks before I found a decent LTD rock. Best I saw was a 33% rock.
A kind player had parked a fleet carrier next to the ring and was buying diamond for 550k per t, so I settled and sold some Tritium as a thank you.
Not sure if this is any help. Can give you the system name if it helps...
ICZ JN-S B4-6
Carrier was called 'Essene'.
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Thanks for your help o7.
The better the controller the longer the collector limpet can last or the further it will go, the better the prospector limpet controller the more fragments you can get from the target rock.
Size 1 is fine for a prospector but E grade isn't, bigger controllers can handle more limpets this is useful with collectors.
Controller size influences how many limpets you can have working at once.
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I find 2 medium lasers, 2 prospector limpets and 6 collectors make for a steady rate of mining.
On the collectors' life span: those poor things don't live long, do they? I do try to make them last as long as possible by positioning the ship to point at the axis of a spinning 'roid. I get a sinking feeling when the asteroid spins into my loyal limpet, ending its life... "collector limpet expired" is a depressing thing to hear.
Static rocks are very nice rocks and I tuck in really close so I can hear that lovely bubbly, watery sound of the collectors collecting.
I may have been mining for too long.
On the collectors' life span: those poor things don't live long, do they? I do try to make them last as long as possible by positioning the ship to point at the axis of a spinning 'roid. I get a sinking feeling when the asteroid spins into my loyal limpet, ending its life... "collector limpet expired" is a depressing thing to hear.
Static rocks are very nice rocks and I tuck in really close so I can hear that lovely bubbly, watery sound of the collectors collecting.
I may have been mining for too long.
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