Mining in a T9 and Collector Limpet problem?.

[Saltyseadog]

I am way out in the black in my FC. I took two specific mining rigged ships with me a Cobra MkIV rigged for core mining and a Python rigged for laser mining. I have several other ships on board including a T9 I intended to use for transport on returning to the bubble. I originally intended to just mine rare and expensive stuff but with the problems in mining lately especially the PWS not working properly I decided maybe it would be better to bulk mine and keep the lesser materials on board to be used in missions instead.

So with this in mind I rigged out the T9 as a miner with a 512t capacity. I have 2 x 5 slots giving 6 collecters and 3 x 3 slots giving another 6 collectors. I am very used to mining and with the Python and Cobra MkIV the collector limpets lasted a long time especially the first ones. In the T9 it is like they don't last any time at all last night for example I must have used over a hundred in less than 15 minutes. In the other two ships I fully loaded them with limpets 48 in the Cobra and 128 in the Python. With the T9 I take over 300 and just prospect and mine every rock between me and the hot spot marker, no problems with the materials just the collectors keep blowing up.

Has anyone else experienced this?. Is it a bug or something to do with the T9 positioning or what?. Any advice greatly appreciated.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Find the bay and turn ship so the cargo bay faces the fragments.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Make sure asteroid is not between bay and fragments.

 

[Quantis Trap]

OP, limpets are lemmings. Helping them not commit subside is one of this game unintended mini-games.

 

[Saltyseadog]

Find the bay and turn ship so the cargo bay faces the fragments.

Thanks for the reply but that is easy to do when you have depleted the asteroid but not so easy when you are firing at it?.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Thanks for the reply but that is easy to do when you have depleted the asteroid but not so easy when you are firing at it?.

You dont need to do at the same time. Mine chunks, then collect some. Occasionally you can do both when chunks are below. I have no recipe to control where chunks fly to

 

[Bottom Hat]

The chunks come off at a tangent to the rock face in an XY direction. Therefore, if you shoot with the nose just above the radial point, they'll come out at or under your ship.

Finding the radial point gets easier and it'll prevent limpet death, and speed up collection too, as the chunks don't spanner off all over the place.

 

[Saltyseadog]

You dont need to do at the same time. Mine chunks, then collect some. Occasionally you can do both when chunks are below. I have no recipe to control where chunks fly to

No offence and I appreciate your input but if I wanted to mine as slowly as that I would have used my Python but then I wouldn't have a problem with the collectors. No I think Bottom Hat has a point in that it is where you fire at the rock and the angle the chunks rebound, and the T9 being so big is getting in the way.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

No offence and I appreciate your input but if I wanted to mine as slowly as that I would have used my Python but then I wouldn't have a problem with the collectors. No I think Bottom Hat has a point in that it is where you fire at the rock and the angle the chunks rebound, and the T9 being so big is getting in the way.

It sounds worth a shot.

 

[VirtueXOI]

Because of the T9 size , limpet take greater angle. So they just crashed into rock because angle is not the same.
Another solution could be that some chunk stayed blocked inside a rock , and every limpets tried to get it. just unlucky

 

[Misty_Dark]

I usually to try and have the mined stuff get out in an angle "beneath" my ship, that way the limpets have less things to try and crash into when they do their collecting.
Often a simple roll can have a good result here.

Another thing that can trip out how suicidal your limpets are is the distance from the asteroid, so moving closer or further away can have a positive on how many limpets that is suicidal.

 

[Saltyseadog]

Just an update for anyone who has the same problem in the future. Just finished a two hour mining stint tonight, my first time playing ED since I posted the thread and Bottom Hat has it correct. I found that by approaching the rock after prospecting it at the mid point then when in range of my Lasers around the 500mtr mark I pointed down almost at the bottom of the rock and fired at that area then all the fragments fell under the ship and my collectors had no problems, in fact I only lost them on the timer. So problem solved for me.

 

[here_it_comes]

I would totally sport a short that simply read 'Collector Limpet Expired'

 

[Bottom Hat]

Just an update for anyone who has the same problem in the future. Just finished a two hour mining stint tonight, my first time playing ED since I posted the thread and Bottom Hat has it correct. I found that by approaching the rock after prospecting it at the mid point then when in range of my Lasers around the 500mtr mark I pointed down almost at the bottom of the rock and fired at that area then all the fragments fell under the ship and my collectors had no problems, in fact I only lost them on the timer. So problem solved for me.

Glad it helped mate it can be a royal pita, so good job on persisting - it takes some practice to find all the centre points, but great to hear it's going well for you mate