Take your ship, you can decide on the actual ship type, and go to a ring. You can have the following:
Prospector limpet controller
Collection limpet controller x 1
Abrasion blaster x 1
Mining laser x 1
Seismic launcher x 1
No materials for synthesizing (this could be the hard part, since we have a ton of them already)
No limpets
No pulse wave analyser
You have 2 hours to see how many void opals you can mine.
I did this last night. It took me a while to find enough materials to synthesize limpets, then I was able to find the right asteroids just by looking at the shapes and inspecting each one. Unlike normal mining, using a limpet for prospecting when you're short on supply is costly. Same with deploying multiple limpets vs just one. Which is more valuable at that moment, your limpets or your time remaining? I couldn't detonate my charges early on the 1st attempt because I didn't use a prospector, so I am assuming the prospector sends the feedback of the charges and their status.
I just flew rock to rock with mining laser and manually scooped materials until I could synthesize a few limpets. Then I used the limpets to gather more materials. I filtered out the mats I didn't need for that purpose so my limpets wouldn't expire too early. Once I started VO mining I had to use the limpets sparingly. and position my ship to allow them the best chance. In one instance I accidentally selected a target prior to launching 3 limpets and all three expired on that one target. That was painful.
I know it sounds tedious but it was actually entertaining to see if I could do that. I the old days we didn't even have limpets so this shouldn't be that challenging to some.
Prospector limpet controller
Collection limpet controller x 1
Abrasion blaster x 1
Mining laser x 1
Seismic launcher x 1
No materials for synthesizing (this could be the hard part, since we have a ton of them already)
No limpets
No pulse wave analyser
You have 2 hours to see how many void opals you can mine.
I did this last night. It took me a while to find enough materials to synthesize limpets, then I was able to find the right asteroids just by looking at the shapes and inspecting each one. Unlike normal mining, using a limpet for prospecting when you're short on supply is costly. Same with deploying multiple limpets vs just one. Which is more valuable at that moment, your limpets or your time remaining? I couldn't detonate my charges early on the 1st attempt because I didn't use a prospector, so I am assuming the prospector sends the feedback of the charges and their status.
I just flew rock to rock with mining laser and manually scooped materials until I could synthesize a few limpets. Then I used the limpets to gather more materials. I filtered out the mats I didn't need for that purpose so my limpets wouldn't expire too early. Once I started VO mining I had to use the limpets sparingly. and position my ship to allow them the best chance. In one instance I accidentally selected a target prior to launching 3 limpets and all three expired on that one target. That was painful.
I know it sounds tedious but it was actually entertaining to see if I could do that. I the old days we didn't even have limpets so this shouldn't be that challenging to some.
