Surely core mining for lesser valuable commodities still results in the same discovery rate drop as opals since the patch?
MINING after new update
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NO Ice rings were completely nerfed..
The distance to Core Rocks was increased... and the drop rate of finding the booby prize core rock was also increased..
For Ice rings that means finding worth less stuff instead of VO is a higher chance than before FC patch 3...
What booby prize you get is different per hot spot location..
you may go VO mining and now get just as many Alexite cores as VO... or you could go to another hot spot and get the dreaded Bromelite..
Were as if you go out side a hot spot and mine you get even more junk cores...
For every good core in a hot spot youll find another which is junk item...
This only effected Ice rings... you could go Core hunting in rocky rings and still get a 4 good items -1 bad item ratio of cores for a hot spot...
And all of this core hunting earns nothing compaired to laser mining and laser mining resets after 3 hours cores take 6 days. so youhave to constantly move location drop on cores or youll just find the rocks you allready mined...
I never used the internal camera for core mining Ive always used the external camera so my core mining is based on not having to spin the ship like others had to..
Also Im on console and that has always had less rendered rocks, so finding cores on console has never been the same as PC and PC maps don't work on consoles so I fly random routes as I would have to build my own maps...
Ive done core mining since the regen core exploit was killed... But as stated I allready used the external Camera on console to look for rocks.. and still did not have an issue...
Gotta disagree with GraphiteGB above, We deffo went through a lean period recently (since the nerf)...but... BUT .... Since the tick last Thursday gone.. the ICY ring we're mining has been like the 'happy hunting time' once again.... nearly all the cores have been good (and what the hotspot advertised... Vo's)...no bloody Bromelite at all!! In little over an hour we had in excess of 25 VO cores between two miners in tandem. PLUS oodles of Alexandrite and Grandidierite Cores too! True it was a double hotspot but a VO/Bromelite one... and as stated NO Bromelite at all! We filled two 192 ton Pythons to the brim....... then got HIT by pirates on the way back to the fleet carrier!!!...lol Long may the buff continue. o7
Edit: We discussed giving the location out .... decision: ... 'err no'
Edit: We discussed giving the location out .... decision: ... 'err no'
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so you're ok with the PWA screw up?
512ton is mapped laser mining from PC players
320ton+ is random laser mining in cutters/pyhton or top 3 ships and can be done on any platform, if you have the top 3 ships and FC..
Im slow many players are faster so my videos won't show it mining higher than 340 tons per hour... it still way more Credits than core mining ever was per hour...
When using python you have to stop and go back to FC with cutter you don't.. .
Not my Video he uses VR..
Uses a No engineering build to show it. now just think how fast an engineered version would be..
Python build
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Not in my view, I mine in my home system, at some 2 minutes distance, AND I love to engage the random pirates there; I mine in a Conda combat build but stripped out for mining (no fuel scoop, no modules/hull reinforcement, or FDS booster - instead a perfect miner build BUT I keep the big weapons, so I have no problems dealing with pirates.
You avoided / ignored the pirates, I engage them - they are free materials, right
And by norm, I blast even those tinny asteroids with only 3-6% painite IF they have medium or high material content. After 2-3 hours I get 2 loads of Painite, 512 tones total, FULL tier I raw on Iron, Zinc, etc ( all you need to reload guns with synthesis) AND a decent amount of manufactured, from pirates bones.
Your style is like a race, you give-up weapons to get a III (useless, inho) laser who overheat you, and sure enough, you have not enough power to keep all 3 of them working non - stop.
My build only sacrifice the 2 small points for mining lasers, so I am not afraid of pirates, so I do not avoid them like you - I even search for them
!My style and place for mining is easier, tough, I can switch the ships in a couple of minutes, make the market run in a good combat build, and I think is way more fun, even if take a bit longer... And overlapping is not any more something especial after last update, you get the same amount from simple hot spots. You only need to pay attention to withe band, to keep going on that with band of concentrated minerals, (using the planet body and the hot spot location as a guide) . The distance from hot spot is not a thing, you can get dozens of "fat" ones from 45/52 % at even 120-200km, and almost nothing at 20 km...
When I reach my 512 I dock, switch to Cutter and there I go, at the best market at that hour - in a trip of 100 yl or 300 yl, without fear of interdiction since I run a combat build Cutter.
(advantages of mining at your front door steps ! )
Works perfect for me, I am in no hurry, and I enjoy the game a lot more like that.
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Each item in a ring has a max and minimum content percentage that can be spawned in a fragment, painite when laser mined has 0 to 66% ( 66% is the most photo and video proven rating )
Every laser item has a percntage for each rock prospected this is tha max that a frag can be..
My highest for painite is 64% per frag from rock...
Mapped mining ...u mean u use some map to catch exact same rocks 8-0
..darn. I couldn't even imagine that what can I say, I'm not so big fun sitting on the same rocks for long.
In avr. most minings are till 200t/hr. Lets say, if you fly in the Void you can expect 200t/hr max there of anything.
..darn. I couldn't even imagine that
what can I say, I'm not so big fun sitting on the same rocks for long.In avr. most minings are till 200t/hr. Lets say, if you fly in the Void you can expect 200t/hr max there of anything.
Once scanned the hotspots, they remain in the memory; You just need to add the place in favorites and if you return after one month there and you have the detailed surface scanner loaded ( no need to scan again !) the hotspots will reveal themselves once you are in range.Mapped mining ...u mean u use some map to catch exact same rocks 8-0
..darn. I couldn't even imagine that
In avr. most minings are till 200t/hr. Lets say, if you fly in the Void you can expect 200t/hr max there of anything.
He means something else >: That what you say is basic thing everybody do.
I think he follows exact same route as robot. Meaning "drop here", "set direction xxx", "boost once" - " u see rock 60%", "boost twice", "u see rock 50%" and he repeats that all over again having the same exact rocks with same exact big %%.
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"He means something else "
What ? !
You cannot do that dude, what, he is not a robot, and he cannot control to that level of extreme position his route ! If pirates are there, he will run away, and all will be screwed !
Or you mean another thing. and I do not understand what you mean ?
The level of stress to use a predetermined route in a MOVING asteroid ring with several random factors involved ( pirates, ring movement, etc) for HUNDREDS of asteroids - targets, all in a predetermined position, with a supposed time for "boost once " or boost twice", watch for rock of 50%, in order to get the very same rocks, etc, is near madness, I can't imagine some sane could pull such thing... when all you need to achieve the very same objective is just to drop in the same location and just use the same path.
Can you elaborate what you wrote ? cuz I never saw / read / watched on Tube nobody using such madness like you suggested here, lol. ""set direction xxx", "boost once" - " u see rock 60%", "boost twice", "u see rock 50%"" !!!!
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Painite - between 4 up to 12 tones / asteroid, in under 1 minute....
I would say that is much about such as I am getting, I only mine rocks from 20% to 50+% for painite and 15% to 35% for tritium. I drop into the ring about 750-500km from the hotspot and usually fill up my 128t Python in about an hour, sometimes if I am lucky I get up to 10 extra in the refinery.
Mining exclusively for tritium to fuel jumps in fc. My observations thus far after egg nerf/current day.
Mining to me is orrid. Honestly I just don't like laser mining.
But l do like sub surface and core mining.
I've discovered 3 double tritium hotspots of varying yields depending on the intersectionng of the hotspots. If perfect ie over one another I'm getting 35 to 45 % yield on random roids and as low as 20% for Imperfect doubles ie the intersection is wider.
Singles as high as 18 to 20% with occasional 25% but rare.
As for sub surface aha!
See as I'm randomly laser mining firing prospectors about i also use the pwa to reveal bright yellow cores or surface/subsurface tritium.. Now bear in mind this is all within tritium hotspots.. all the cores are anything but tritium.
But surface and sub is very lucrative.
Indeed sometimes I can fill a python in an hour with just the abrasion and sub stuff.
Which makes it bearable!
Yes perfect doubles yellow over yellow give a higher yield.
So is it bugged? Tritium cores just don't exist ? Idk I'm askin.
Seems odd not to have tritium cores in tritium hotspots. I've read that void opals are the same?
Mining to me is orrid. Honestly I just don't like laser mining.
But l do like sub surface and core mining.
I've discovered 3 double tritium hotspots of varying yields depending on the intersectionng of the hotspots. If perfect ie over one another I'm getting 35 to 45 % yield on random roids and as low as 20% for Imperfect doubles ie the intersection is wider.
Singles as high as 18 to 20% with occasional 25% but rare.
As for sub surface aha!
See as I'm randomly laser mining firing prospectors about i also use the pwa to reveal bright yellow cores or surface/subsurface tritium.. Now bear in mind this is all within tritium hotspots.. all the cores are anything but tritium.
But surface and sub is very lucrative.
Indeed sometimes I can fill a python in an hour with just the abrasion and sub stuff.
Which makes it bearable!
Yes perfect doubles yellow over yellow give a higher yield.
So is it bugged? Tritium cores just don't exist ? Idk I'm askin.
Seems odd not to have tritium cores in tritium hotspots. I've read that void opals are the same?
Maybe I am wrong but I don't think i've ever found a tritium core even when the PWS worked. I always thought that tritium was to ice rings as painite is to metallic rings and worked best with laser mining and the occasional surface deposits?.