It looks like mining got some TLC when I wasn't paying attention. Asteroids with sub-surface deposits seem to be rotating slower on average. Sub-surface deposits are consistently yielding two fragments per missile (something I haven't seen since the Odyssey alpha). Platinum hotspots seem to have more laser-minable platinum not just more core platinum (I wondered why people have been talking about platinum hot spots like they mattered). Am I losing my mind, did I just have some profoundly lucky RNG last night, or were these noted in patches, and I just failed to notice?
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- Thread starter mtfatboy3006
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Glad you're seeing improvements.
I've not mined in anger in over 2 years...in the last 3 days I've dropped into multiple platinum hotspots and deployed over 200 prospectors...not a single platinum fragment to be found anywhere!!!
35% Osmium, 40% gold, plus loads of other high yield metal containing asteroids...but ZERO platinum.
Tried the centre of the hotspot, off centre and the edge. Same results.
Starting to think either a) There's a bug or b) the gods just aren't on my side the last 3 days!
Where were you?
Had no issues in Delkar over the last couple of days
latest is 2nd gas giant, HIP 41526 (somebodies colonised system). There now. Tried everything from logging to yelling at the asteroids.
Platinum only shows up in Pristine Rings
Otherwise its core only.
I forgot this and had the same issue
I suspect my location is further out than you will want to try...
B92 Sector QJ-Q b5-2 3
ETA there are certainly closer pristine metallic rings with platinum hot spots
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"Metal Rich" rings only have platinum asteroids with - cores.
"Metalic" rings have platinum asteroids with - Surface (laser), Surface (Abrasion Blaster), Sub Surface (Subsurface Displacement Missile), Cores.
Just been to Delkar 6 Platinum hotspot...another 100 prospector limpets down the drain. Nothing. Same a neighbouring system with a hotspot and a res site in the hotspot. Still nothing.
Decided to drop into Delkar 7 High Res (no platinum hotspots on this ring)...managed to get 12 platinum in 30 mins.
I'm out of ideas on what to try to find platinum in a platinum hotspot.
Um…..delkar7 has two platinum hotspots. It’s where I’ve been doing my mining. Something very funky is going on for you….
Daft question (from the manual of "how to suck an egg in 3 easy steps") but: you have DSS scanned the inner ring of delkar 7 to get all the hot spots to show? Not just the outer ring
EDIT to add: What you should see is something like:
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And just to reiterate, if you are laser mining you must do it in a metallic ring (not metal rich or anything other than "Metallic") which will be the A ring which may be very narrow compared to the B ring - so narrow as to be difficult to target with the DSS. Just because there's a Platinum hotspot does not mean there is surface Platinum.
/HangsHeadInShame
Been a few years since I did hard core mining in anger.
Scanned the inner ring, dropped into high res, now in the top 25% in the CG. Thanks.
Still scratching my head regarding the other platinum hotspots I visited...where I prospected random roids and also used the pulse scanner to look for cores. Found cores, for core mining, just not platinum ones. I'll pop back over to them and see if I can spot what's going on.
Mining can be weird.
Went to a spot supposedly good for lasering plat. Found almost none.
Went to a spot supposedly good for core plat, barely found any cores and none were plat. But found more than enough of plat to laser there...
Went to a spot supposedly good for lasering plat. Found almost none.
Went to a spot supposedly good for core plat, barely found any cores and none were plat. But found more than enough of plat to laser there...
Doing nothing but laser for plat for this CG and in general.
Come across the odd core of Plat but ignore it due to the time taken to laser the surface plat, then blow it up, then collect the surface plat with Abrasion blaster from the chunks.
Could have done several rocks in this time at 20% to 65% each!!.
So I leave cores alone and just laser the surface Plat and move on.
(Note to OP - Plat HS only found in Metallic (Pristine is best) and not in Metal Rich)
Metallic ring is always ring A if present and never ring B.
Come across the odd core of Plat but ignore it due to the time taken to laser the surface plat, then blow it up, then collect the surface plat with Abrasion blaster from the chunks.
Could have done several rocks in this time at 20% to 65% each!!.
So I leave cores alone and just laser the surface Plat and move on.
(Note to OP - Plat HS only found in Metallic (Pristine is best) and not in Metal Rich)
Metallic ring is always ring A if present and never ring B.
Been surface mining in the same system as the CG and not had any issues collecting the materials. Used to be a die-hard core miner but there seems to be better results in surface mining since my return. Had a couple of 4hr sessions with a haul of just under 1000t.