Newcomer / Intro Mining in hotspots is problematic

Mike Reacher

Mike Reacher
I have been mining all year. I noticed the hot spots are sort of broken.
Example: I just wanted to mine platinum in a Platinum Hotspot.
I surface mined 14 Samarium, 15 Bertrandite, 9 Osmium, 15 gold. These are not hotspot connected, so were a bit of cream.
The "Platinum Hotspot" gave 1 core Platinum, 2 cores LTDs, 1 core Monazite, 1 core Rhodplumsite, 1 core Painite, 1 core Bromellite, and one core Grandidierite.
Looking at that day's work, the idea of the hotspot is either broken or hotspot in name only.
It would have been okay if I'd had a 10 bin refinery.
Opinions?
 

HRDiagram

HRDiagram
That seems to be the case. When I go laser mining I avoid Platinum hot spots in metal rich rings, since it's guaranteed I won't find any, aside for sporadic cores, which I'm not there for.
 

Spaceman-FXL5

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Must be a 'Pristine' 'Metallic' ring for Plat HS to have plenty of Plat. Double HS is only slightly better for max Plat laser mining.
Metal Rich Plat HS don't give Plat cores - as you have found.
I get around 64M/hour laser mining and ignore all except Plat and Osmium (sometimes Painite is high value).
 

Demonlord79

Demonlord79
Mike Reacher said:
I have been mining all year. I noticed the hot spots are sort of broken.
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I've been a hardcore miner for quite some time now. When Odyssey came out it broke, "KILLED" mining hotspots. Not sure why this is due that Odyssey has absolutely nothing to do with mining.
I hit any hot spot anywhere with a full A-class and engineered setup Anaconda and I never mine out what the hotspot says, even if I see a core asteroid and still nothing despite being Pristine rings.

I've made so many tickets and suggestions it would be impossible for Frontiers' team not to see it. But nothing, not any response with tickets. I personally don't think Frontier really cares about the Horizons' side of the game anymore. I just go out and hit the rings mentioned above and just mine what I can. Really don't even care about hotspots anymore due that they are clearly broke. But at least I can still mine at all I suppose.

Good luck Commander...o7
 

Mike Reacher

Mike Reacher
Thank you all for the insight. I wish to mine Musgravite now.
Is there an insight to watch for?
Mistake. I think it was Monazite that has a good price. Any insight would be appreciated.

GroG79, you don't believe in a gentle approach, do you?
:D
 
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