I got myself a Hauler, outfitted it with mining laser, refinery. 5 light seconds to the nearest RES. The mini game is amazing. After shooting a rock, you get to chase the nugget you just knocked off it. But that's not the fun part yet. The fun part is after you get a couple of nuggets, you can't pick up a third. Why? Because you forgot to refine the first two silly. Oh gosh.
So, refine the first two, and now there are elements like bauxite and lepidolite with percentages. You have to get them to 100% before 1 will actually be in your cargo hold. So, I go back to mine, but I couldn't remember which rock I was at so I picked one at random. A few seconds later, and Boom! another nugget. I was having a lot of fun and couldn't believe my luck. This mini game is so interesting. My hopper was full for some reason, so I clicked on one of the items and laughed so hard when it was ejected into space.
Then I heard a bashing sound and realized the asteroid I was hovering beside was shaped like a potato and my ship was being scraped off the side of it.
Anyways, it was an hour of mucking around and I had to go take a break. I went back to the station and sold my free loot and made 42 credits! Can you believe that?!? In one hour I made a whole 42 credits! Mining is easily one of the best mini games I've seen. It's maybe even a meta game, because the goal doesn't seem to be about all the free credits, but about the bouncing around and chasing nuggets and shooting at rocks and stuff. Oh, and dodging pirates. Did I mention them?
It was a blast.
So, refine the first two, and now there are elements like bauxite and lepidolite with percentages. You have to get them to 100% before 1 will actually be in your cargo hold. So, I go back to mine, but I couldn't remember which rock I was at so I picked one at random. A few seconds later, and Boom! another nugget. I was having a lot of fun and couldn't believe my luck. This mini game is so interesting. My hopper was full for some reason, so I clicked on one of the items and laughed so hard when it was ejected into space.
Then I heard a bashing sound and realized the asteroid I was hovering beside was shaped like a potato and my ship was being scraped off the side of it.
Anyways, it was an hour of mucking around and I had to go take a break. I went back to the station and sold my free loot and made 42 credits! Can you believe that?!? In one hour I made a whole 42 credits! Mining is easily one of the best mini games I've seen. It's maybe even a meta game, because the goal doesn't seem to be about all the free credits, but about the bouncing around and chasing nuggets and shooting at rocks and stuff. Oh, and dodging pirates. Did I mention them?
It was a blast.