Mining for Merits

[tomalus]

Could it be that "mining" powers get bonus merits ?

 

[Markov Chaney]

Which ones are "the mining powers" and where can I find that information?

 

[mtfatboy3006]

There is an issue tracker issue up for this, and since the same-system requirement isn't in the Codex, I suspect it is a bug.
https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/68181

I wonder how many materials from out-of-system are being loaded on a carrier prior to sale. That might be preventing the game from recognizing them as mined. I know I transferred mine via carrier.

 

[Markov Chaney]

Which ones are "the mining powers" and where can I find that information?

I found a spreadsheet via Reddit - linky - and the answer is:

• Zemina: +45% and the Mining Lance at Level 34
• Nakato: +50% and the Mining Lance at Level 97
  (that's worse than quite a lot of the non-mining powers)

Denton Patreus gets the Mining Lance fairly early at Level 39 but is otherwise very combat focused, make it make sense

 

[Random_Phil]

It makes sense because mining lances are dog water. Plus most people who are going to effectively mine for merits are likely to have a decent mining set-up already

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I did some core mining last night. Allow me to quote myself from another thread:

Okay, I collected some tangible data for this. Preface: I am pledged to Kaine and started tonight at rank 10 with 57k merits. According to my journal file I spent 70 minutes from undocking at my carrier to selling the last of my mined goods. I mined and sold my goods in Ritila, which is a stronghold in boom next door to Tionisla (Kaine's HQ). I sold everything at the outpost conveniently placed next to the ring I was mining in, so I didn't check if I would get higher profit at other stations.

I went to a Monazite ring and cracked seven cores. I cracked every core asteroid I found regardless of the mineral, because I figured harvesting a lower value mineral is time better spent than not collecting anything while looking for the golden goose. Of course the only Monazite core was the last one I found. In total I collected 109 tons of ore.

I didn't bother testing for single sales vs. bulk, the first one was just to test if I got any merits at all. As you can see, the merits earned only depend on the profit you make and seem to be around 0.75 merits per 1000 credits profit. Also my Platinum sales suggest there is no bulk sale penalty for mined goods.

In total I made just shy of 38k merits in 70 minutes (undocking to docking), which comes down to 34k merits per hour. I also made 5 ranks in the process.

Here's the data I collected as a convenient table:

Mineral​	Amount​	Profit​	Profit / t​	Merits​	Merits / t​	Merits / 1000Cr​
Platinum​	1​	264230​	264230​	196​	196.00​	0.741778​
Platinum​	17​	4491910​	264230​	3376​	198.59​	0.751573​
Monazite​	16​	5555600​	347225​	4176​	261.00​	0.751674​
Painite​	34​	15523448​	456572​	11672​	343.29​	0.751895​
Rhodplumsite​	27​	21069855​	780365​	15844​	586.81​	0.751975​
Serendibite​	14​	6031242​	430803​	4532​	323.71​	0.751421​
Total merits​	39796​	​	​	​	​	​
Merits / h​	34110.86​	​	​	​	​	​

Hope this helps anyone.