I have a difficult time - ps5 - using the pulse wave analyzer and seeing all the rocks that scan yellow in the fog. Other than trying to find a hotspot in the shadow is there a way to find a place where there is no fog? Is there a certain type of sun that doesn't generate the foggy lighting conditions?
Mining in the fog of a ring
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Off the top of my head, maybe try at another time of day when the local star has moved* or turning up the brightness on your TV or MAYBE it'll help if you use the night vision view in your ship...
If that doesn't help, maybe you just need to find somewhere else to mine :0
.*I know it's you and the location you're at that moves and not the actual star, but that's how it looks
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I haven't spent much time mining although somehow I'm elite in trading. How far from the star do you need to be for the fog to not be there?Off the top of my head, maybe try at another time of day when the local star has moved* or turning up the brightness on your TV or MAYBE it'll help if you use the night vision view in your ship...
If that doesn't help, maybe you just need to find somewhere else to mine :0
*I know it's you and the location you're at that moves and not the actual star, but that's how it looks
A few suggestions:
Find a hotspot you want to mine. The closer it is to the star, the brighter it will be. Try to use EDDB to find one close by your location, with pristine resources, and say, >5000 ls from the star.
Once you arrive at the hotspot, select the star in the left panel, and always fly towards the star while scanning the rocks. That makes the orange ones easier to spot. If you also enable night vision, you will find it easier to spot if the rock has fissures, without firing a prospector limpet.
Finally, don't forget to do a 180 once in a while, because the game mechanics often cause rocks with cores to spawn behind you.
Good luck.
Find a hotspot you want to mine. The closer it is to the star, the brighter it will be. Try to use EDDB to find one close by your location, with pristine resources, and say, >5000 ls from the star.
Once you arrive at the hotspot, select the star in the left panel, and always fly towards the star while scanning the rocks. That makes the orange ones easier to spot. If you also enable night vision, you will find it easier to spot if the rock has fissures, without firing a prospector limpet.
Finally, don't forget to do a 180 once in a while, because the game mechanics often cause rocks with cores to spawn behind you.
Good luck.
This. It completely eliminates the fog.
The problem it creates though is that it's very difficult to tell how close things are. Your depth of field is ruined. You may think one asteroid is far away and run right into it.
The fix for that is to also run with your external lights on. What that does is reflect off the asteroid as you get close to it.
So in the Ship menu at the very top, turn on your night vision AND external lights. Be careful at first as it does take some getting used to and you're bound to run into a few asteroids at first. But you'll get used to it soon enough and it'll become second nature to you.
Bright Yellow return only matters for sub surface and core....
For core you want SHAPE of rock and grid pattern of the return ... which can be green, red. yellow combo....
Hot spot dont alter number of core rock they only move core type chance up a fraction of a percentage of the core type up...
Shape of rock
grid pattern and colours returned
Fissures render on core rock...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAus3Vx0Ya4
Console video its normal for there to be NO cores visible for many minutes at a time..
PWA not required for laser mining...
LASER PRE-FLIGHT CHECKLIST
A-rated Prospector
Mining Lasers, Refinery -Limpets -Maximized Power Distributor
Collectors (D-class)
Detailed Surface Scanner -, cargo racks,
For core you want SHAPE of rock and grid pattern of the return ... which can be green, red. yellow combo....
Hot spot dont alter number of core rock they only move core type chance up a fraction of a percentage of the core type up...
Shape of rock
grid pattern and colours returned
Fissures render on core rock...
Console video its normal for there to be NO cores visible for many minutes at a time..
PWA not required for laser mining...
LASER PRE-FLIGHT CHECKLIST
A-rated Prospector
Mining Lasers, Refinery -Limpets -Maximized Power Distributor
Collectors (D-class)
Detailed Surface Scanner -, cargo racks,
"Hazard pack", is that something you buy for ARX, is it available for all ships and for consoles?
.Edit - Also since when do Android emojis work on this forum? - I'm quite surprised, when I'm sure they didn't recently! - Actually, I might have been mixing them up not working here with the Stellaris forum!
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Indeed it's been my main ship for the last two years, I'll have to go see can I get that pack on PS4!
Ouch!Yeah, it's an ARX pack - not available for all ships at the moment, but I did think they were available for consoles.
Ship Kits - Elite Dangerous Gamestore
Use Arx to buy customisations for your commander, ships, SRVs and fighters.dlc.elitedangerous.com
Just checked on the store, that pack is 13,500 ARX per ship!
I've only got about 6000 right now, I don't normally pay money for microtransactions, so I don't know if I will here, but IF I do - how many Euros does 7000-8000 cost (or even 10,000, if they're sold only in groups of 5000, 10000 etc)?!
You get Arx a lot cheaper than we do in the United States, that's for sure.Ouch!
Just checked on the store, that pack is 13,500 ARX per ship!
I've only got about 6000 right now, I don't normally pay money for microtransactions, so I don't know if I will here, but IF I do - how many Euros does 7000-8000 cost (or even 10,000, if they're sold only in groups of 5000, 10000 etc)?!
You can get 16,800 Arx for 9.59 euro.
It cost us $12.99 in the U.S.
And the dollar and euro are on equal footing now. They have the same value. So we're paying 3.40 more than you are for the same 16,800 arx, which is worth more than another 5,000 arx for you.
Still, in general I'm not in favour of microtransactions, I reckon it's an easy crutch to fall back on, rather than making dlc with actual content (which of course we likely won't get any more of on consoles unless Frontier changes their minds, particularly with David Braben having stepped aside, which gives me even less encouragement to buy microtransactions than I usually do!)
Anyway, I guess that's a "me" problem and I'll weight up the price in the moment, when I get back from my current trip into the black!
The values were based on what it cost in Pounds £ first Vs loses due to Sony/microsofts cut per sale that Fdev could live with
Aka £3 £5 £13 £25 then prices converted via Cost of living conversion to EU, Never exchange rate...
Its always a fixed price on console stores... if something cost £25 on UK store it cost 30 euros..
That is actually illegal under international law. It's called "fraud".
There is no "conversion". They simply charge Americans more because we'll pay it.
Well if it makes you feel any better, there are many things we have to pay extra for here, "just because" - particularly cars, which we pay through the nose for (partly because of local taxes, but a lot due to the manufacturer simply asking X price and some people will just pay it!)
In particular in the gaming space, off the top of my head, back in the day the PS3 cost $600, but €630, when the euro was worth a fair bit more than the dollar - anyway, it is what it is!
Again, not true.
For quite a while now, the playing field has been leveled. That's what monetary exchange rates are all about: they take cost of goods, buying power, etc. all into account. That's what dictates how much a given currency is worth.
Right now, the euro can buy just as much here in the States as it can in Europe. The opposite is true as well. There is literally no difference at all in the cost of most goods between here and there.
The one obvious exception is, of course, health care. You get it for free. My wife and I pay $22,500.00 per year for insurance, plus co-pays, plus 80% of bills, plus medications.
If they based the cost of arx off of any "real" cost of living base, they'd be giving us arx for free here based on the cost of health care alone.
That's interesting because I've seen others claim some of the hot spots get depleted from to much mining. Do you know how often they re-spawn?A few suggestions:
Find a hotspot you want to mine. The closer it is to the star, the brighter it will be. Try to use EDDB to find one close by your location, with pristine resources, and say, >5000 ls from the star.
Once you arrive at the hotspot, select the star in the left panel, and always fly towards the star while scanning the rocks. That makes the orange ones easier to spot. If you also enable night vision, you will find it easier to spot if the rock has fissures, without firing a prospector limpet.
Finally, don't forget to do a 180 once in a while, because the game mechanics often cause rocks with cores to spawn behind you.
Good luck.
Laser mining 3 hours
Core mining 6 days...
Those are the fixed regen rates for mining ...
And its from the very last second the last chunk is released from the rock...
Cores will show globally on every platform as cracked.... laser mining is only for a single player for 3 hours ...
If you have not lasered mined in that exact section of that exact pristine ring there is no change to the rocks this allows players to repeat mapped mining runs every 3 hours when laser mining... if you have 6 maps and a FC you can run mapped laser minig 512 tons every 30 mins... as you land on the FC empty and then return to the next map...
Haz res laser mining 512 ton mappped cutter Runs in rings can be completed in 25 mins of in ring time....
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They seem to spawn all the time. I don't know exactly how the depletion mechanism works, but in some rings you can be "lucky" one day and find almost nothing a few days later.
I'm pretty sure I figured out a pattern of how they spawn some time ago, but telling that would be a serious spoiler, and the algorithm might have changed. A hint:
Try to stay more or less in the same area of the hotspot, flying back and forth.