The other good way of doing it is to go to the engineer base where you need to do the upgrade and check local news. There's articles listing systems with above average materials and generally spawn rates are increased based on what people are reporting. Not sure if accurate or placebo but that's how i'd do it.
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Newcomer / Intro Mining for Arsenic
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Do you need to land near a blue POI then before deploying? I guess if the min-able rocks are dispersed then you don't want to be travelling large distances in the SRV
Nope, POIs are generally for mission stuff or for finding cargo or scan data. The rocks you need to shoot for minerals do not show up as POIs.
Help deciphering the scanner is here : http://wavescanner.net
woo hoo I found some, 1h30m but that does include me learning everything for the 1st time including mapping the controls 
How do you know what a Mesosiderite will drop vs. a Bronzite Chondrite? That wasn't explained at all in the tutorials....
How do you know what a Mesosiderite will drop vs. a Bronzite Chondrite? That wasn't explained at all in the tutorials....
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woo hoo I found some, 1h30m but that does include me learning everything for the 1st time including mapping the controls
How do you know what a Mesosiderite will drop vs. a Bronzite Chondrite? That wasn't explained at all in the tutorials....
We don't, but Chondrites drop only common materials, while Mesosiderites and especially Metallic meteorites drop rares.
I think that you are right on this. However, since switching your ship to doing something different then you did before, is bound to go along with dying a few times in your attempts. And dying at this moment is very costly. So i am too afraid to try something new because I simply do not have the credits to die more than once... And carrying engineering stuff brings about all these deadly interdictions, so I sell these pieces at the first oppornity, to avoid being interdicted
True but thats only the commodities, the materials and data can be gathered in a ship with no powerplay, cargo and/or missions meaning you get an interdiction once every 5 hours or so (tested on my main and 2nd account). Take a sidewinder the first time you mine/land before diving in. I did most of my learning back in my Cobra III, took me 3 months to get into a bigger ship which iirc was the T6 for rare-goods trading followed quickly by the Asp.
Once you've got the data and materials go to the engineers system and park the ship you want to engineer close-by. Buy a cheap but speedy Cobra Mk 3 or even a sidewinder and run a mission or 2 for the commodities you need, some can also be bought if you travel far enough. Rebuy is minimal if you die and materials/data is persistent so you loose almost nothing.
You have max of 1 system of travel time in the ship you wish to engineer, if that worries you fire out to some nice player groups for an escort, for a 1 sys hop of security detail I'm sure it won't be too hard to find someone.
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think I'm going to have to eat my words, learning to use the SRV has been some of the best time I've spent in ED to date. Here's me landed on a mountain peak on Shinrarta Dezhra A 1.... just before I base jump off the side with the SRV
22 Arsenic claimed as well, very happy chappie. Thanks everyone for your input it was the right thing to do after all.
22 Arsenic claimed as well, very happy chappie. Thanks everyone for your input it was the right thing to do after all.
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That's wonderful to hear.
So devs were right in their statement that stepping out of one's comfort zone is fun.
Right on, commander. o7
So devs were right in their statement that stepping out of one's comfort zone is fun.
Right on, commander. o7
That's wonderful to hear.
So devs were right in their statement that stepping out of one's comfort zone is fun.
Right on, commander. o7
I wouldn't go as far as saying thats always true for everyone but trying everything doesn't hurt.Congrats OP and enjoy the hopefully increased jump range.