Engineers Mining grind for Selene Jean access. Insights?

ThriveInDark

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Limoncello Lizard said:
If your distributor is engineered, you can get away with three medium mining lasers in a Python.
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Forgive my total ignorance and assumptiveness, but I'm understanding the advantage of mining turrets is that they will converge, am I right? So if that is the case, does having 3 mining lasers drill rock faster than 2? Because you can't target the astroid right? I really haven't touched mining since like pre wings/cqc and that was for about 15 minutes before I swore never again
 

Mike Reacher

Mike Reacher
Trekari said:
One caveat about that no-shield thing....

It's quite likely you'll be interdicted on the way home. Make sure if you don't run shields, that your hull is at least strong enough to survive while boosting away from the pirates until SecServ shows up.
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Security services don't always show up. I had 2 Anacondas attack me the other day. First one was killed. I had no shields left. Second one turned up and, as he said, started boiling my bulkheads. I bugged out. No security showed up.

Limoncello Lizard said:
This I don't know. I haven't tried mining turrets. But from what I've heard, they don't seem to be any better.
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I have 2 larger mining lasers for my Python. They chew through the rocks real quick.

But how about surface mining? Or doesn't that count? (Like in an SRV. Doing donuts between outcrop finding)
 

Limoncello Lizard

Limoncello Lizard
Mike Reacher said:
Security services don't always show up. I had 2 Anacondas attack me the other day. First one was killed. I had no shields left. Second one turned up and, as he said, started boiling my bulkheads. I bugged out. No security showed up.
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Check you have "report crimes against me" switched on. The higher the system security, the more likely that authority ships will turn up.
Having a high-wake planned can be handy escaping from larger ships.
 

Spartanous

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just finished her yesterday. asp explorer with medium mining lasers and firepower in the smalls.
3a shield and cargo and limpets in the rest. out of 96 cargo i carried like 60 limpets. went to a metallic ring and mined like crazy. in the last 50 tonns I was more keen on painite. ended with 12 tonns then went straight to her.
first 400 tons i did in a system where the sites are close to the station so i can refill the limpets quickly. took me like 6-7 hours but I knew jack about mining and learned on the go.
I must add that I discovered that mining is not that bad... it's theraputic in some way.
 

colprice2002

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Ive been using a T9 for mining.
Standard D modules except for power distributor.
2 mining lasers, prospector controller, collector contoller (A rated because the limpets last longer!), Lots of limpets.

As above, don't use the Res sites, just head for a ring. When you're there, you'll probably have an npc scan, don't collect/refine anything before that...
After that, I find I can mine in peace for ages.
If you logout then login, you'll trigger another npc scan, but now you have valuable cargo....

If possible, fly to a station in the system with your armed/fast transport, and transfer the mining ship to that station. Then you can take your cargo back safely.
 

Kilostream

Kilostream
CMDR QUANTIS TRAP said:
....I don't really care what ores or how much money I make doing it....Given that, what pointers would you have?....
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Go to the planetary rings closest to wherever you are and mine!

Mining is so easy there isn't much technique to it at all - the only real peril is suicidal collector limpets and I know of two things you can do to help with that:

1) position your ship so that the limpets don't have to fly between your ship and an asteroid to get to the cargo hatch - keep the 'down' direction from your ship clear.
2) as you're aiming at the target asteroid, burn your laser along the 'equator' of the asteroid where it's rotating the fastest - this means the lumps of stuff that you mine will be more likely to be thrown clear of the asteroid for your limpets to scoop in safety - if you mine at the 'poles' of the asteroid, the stuff is more likely to hang around, get clumped, and the limpets go into full lemming mode.

Hope that helps, although I'm sure you've been managing!
 

YinYin

YinYin
Kilostream said:
2) as you're aiming at the target asteroid, burn your laser along the 'equator' of the asteroid where it's rotating the fastest - this means the lumps of stuff that you mine will be more likely to be thrown clear of the asteroid for your limpets to scoop in safety - if you mine at the 'poles' of the asteroid, the stuff is more likely to hang around, get clumped, and the limpets go into full lemming mode.
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This isn't good advice. If you want to be perfectly accurate, you should avoid creating fragments inside the rotation volume of an asteroid (a position eventually getting hit by the asteroid itself). While a pole can be covered by rotation volume around it occasionally, it is more likely to be entirely clear than the equator. You don't want the fragments to be thrown around at all. That's an indication of danger to your collectors as well as increasing the distance and time they have to travel.
 
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