Newcomer / Intro Material traders..?

EvilestKhan

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right guys/girls need help.

arsenic I'm having a right problem gathering this for upgrading fsd.

I've been driving around on planets that have a high arsenic content but after 4 hrs I've only picked up 9 units; but i've picked up loads of other elements.

can I not use these other elements to purchase arsenic? if so how?

many thanks.
 

Codger

Codger
My go-to planet for arsenic is Timbalderis B 1. It has arsenic, and mercury (worth 2 arsenic) and polonium (worth 9 arsenic). Shoot every rock you see.

It’s still not “fast”, but it’s the best I’ve found.
 

pzykozomatik

pzykozomatik
At a Raw Material Trader you can trade raw materials for other raw materials, best is to trade down from higher tiers within the same material group. In this case, since arsenic is grade 2, you could trade down mercury or polonium. Trade from lower tiers or other categories is also possible, but at a significant loss.

Material traders overview:
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Material_Trader

Search for material traders near your location:
https://inara.cz/galaxy-nearest/25
 
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sinisalo

sinisalo
pzykozomatik said:
At a Raw Material Trader you can trade raw materials for other raw materials, best is to trade down from higher tiers within the same material group. In this case, since arsenic is grade 2, you could trade down mercury or polonium. Trade from lower tiers or other categories is also possible, but at a significant loss.
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+1. This is important, because with the exchange rates as they are, you want to maximize your return if you can.

Arsenic can be scarce, just keep plugging away. Actually, you need some reverse psychology, because any long time Elite player knows that you find tons of the stuff you just used for the last modification. So you need to fly around looking for whatever will be needed for the next thing you'll engineer and Arsenic will be popping up like daisies.
 

Spandexxx

Spandexxx
artigan99 said:
My go-to planet for arsenic is Timbalderis B 1. It has arsenic, and mercury (worth 2 arsenic) and polonium (worth 9 arsenic). Shoot every rock you see.
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This is excellent advice. I was having a very similar problem (but with Zinc) so did something similar and ended up finding loads of Selenium. 3 units a time, each one converting to 9 zinc. So 28 units of zinc per find. I soon had boatloads. The advantageous conversion rates can be great if you have a way of getting hold of the higher grade items. It's when you're struggling to get the highest grade stuff it's a bit miserable!
 

ArchAngelofDeath

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I feel for you. I've spent 3 nights on a planet with highest % listed for Antimony and finally got the total I needed last night. Many hours of SRV driving. What a grind! Maxed out Iron and Nickle along the way. :rolleyes:
 

Reever

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Anyone know how to use the material trader to get grid resistors. I found one that does them, but anything I have he wont trade with for them.
 

Vikitzo

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Reever said:
Anyone know how to use the material trader to get grid resistors. I found one that does them, but anything I have he wont trade with for them.
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It's possible you don't have any (suitable) manufactured resources to trade?

You can try going into highly populated system in a state of war/civil war and look for HIGH GRADE emissions. They should contain either military grade alloys or military supercapacitors. A single military supercapacitor will get you 81 grid resistors from the trader.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Two more tips:
  • geological (and biological, but nobody has made a database for them yet) POIs have outcrops with every element available on that specific planet. Unfortunately, the lower grade elements (like Arsenic) share a RNG class, so it's still random how many Arsenic you will get from a POI, but you will get some. In order to find geological POIs, you will have to first FSS a system and find the planets with geological POIs, then DSS that planet to find the specific POI locations. You can shortcut the first stepby going to EDDB and search for bodies with Arsenic and Volcanism (selectable as "extra column"). If you play on PC and find EDDB useful - it's a tool that has been written and is fed by CMDRs, so please consider running one of the feeder programs (like EDDiscovery or EDMC) while you're playing to keep the database up to date.
  • there is one type of biologicals, Crystalline Shards, which only yields the highest grade material that is available on that body - in abundance. Dharrchh has made a thread about exploiting them here, and in this post, there's a link to a Google datasheet with known Crystalline Shard sites (and the materials they yield).
 

d8veh

d8veh
instead of mindlessly driving an SRV around, go painite mining. You make 200mil credits per hour at the same time as collecting around 200 raw materials an hour, which can be traded up for any raw materials you want.
 
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