Mining is dreadful and a joke.

z33r0x

z33r0x
Both me and my friends been trying out the mining. We all are very disappointed, it's so darn slow and frustraded, and for spending hours and hours farming the Platinum and Palladium metalls, we go and sell, profit?, not so much when you compare to trading. Do a trade run, and you get 10-20 times the amount of profit than you do on mining for the same time, and maybe even more. With a cargo capacity of 128, I do 190.000 - 220.000 profit in one jump and takes 2 min, because skipping the supercruise, jumping stright for the station instead of the sun. The places I have farmed had, Prestine Reserves and Metallic and it's the best in the game they say. I can tell you that this is a joke. Im so dissapointed in Mining, and why the hell must we scoop up all the ores and minerals ? That part should be automatic, or some kind of tractor beam. It's broken the way it is now.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
Uhh.. have you read any of the news letters or dev updates about the upcoming update to V1.3 and all the improvements to mining? It's only a few weeks away now.
 

jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
I think everyone pretty much agrees that mining is an abomination (even those who typically play as miners in space games!). Like others said, 1.3 is supposed to make it better. Only time will tell, though.

Here's to the future and possibilities :)
 
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Nelina

Nelina
z33r0x said:
Both me and my friends been trying out the mining. We all are very disappointed, it's so darn slow and frustraded, and for spending hours and hours farming the Platinum and Palladium metalls, we go and sell, profit?, not so much when you compare to trading. Do a trade run, and you get 10-20 times the amount of profit than you do on mining for the same time, and maybe even more. With a cargo capacity of 128, I do 190.000 - 220.000 profit in one jump and takes 2 min, because skipping the supercruise, jumping stright for the station instead of the sun. The places I have farmed had, Prestine Reserves and Metallic and it's the best in the game they say. I can tell you that this is a joke. Im so dissapointed in Mining, and why the hell must we scoop up all the ores and minerals ? That part should be automatic, or some kind of tractor beam. It's broken the way it is now.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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Congratulations, you just found out, that at this moment mining is not very profitable for tradeships.
If you only have 32 cargo space, mining could be very profitable if you can scoop very well.

Try again checking this with v1.3, maybe mining is much more worth then for ships with larger cargo space.
In my opinion faction and reputation-gain should be 4times higher for miners as for merchants :)
 

Weps

Weps
z33r0x said:
because skipping the supercruise, jumping stright for the station instead of the sun
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Yes, mining is bad, but you've just compared it to an exploit. "Skipping the supercruise" is not actually what the devs have in mind when it comes to the game.

In any case, like others have said, mining will be changed a month from now. I'm still a bit skeptical about the changes, but we'll see how they work out.
 

Ceekay

Ceekay
I found that mining gets you past the "just not enough cash for a Cobra" point in the game when doing cargo runs in a Hauler isn't making a lot of cash, at this point a few hours mining gives you the credits to buy a Cobra and lets you try out other professions, the same thing applies to exploring it's a good earner that can be done with a basic starter ship at low risk until you can build up the cash.
 

Steve50

Steve50
Jeez.. More mining whining ;)

I've been mining for several months, I find it very relaxing and enjoyable. So it's slow? Who cares.. Does every "profession" have to be fast and non-stop thrilling?

You know I find trading to be the most dull, boring and pointless thing in the entire game.. YET I don't create threads whining about it and pleading for it to be changed.

You know what I do? I'll tell you my secret.. I simply avoid it, I do not trade, I do something that I do like which is mining. Easy huh?
 

bamber

B
z33r0x said:
Both me and my friends been trying out the mining. We all are very disappointed, it's so darn slow and frustraded, and for spending hours and hours farming the Platinum and Palladium metalls, we go and sell, profit?, not so much when you compare to trading. Do a trade run, and you get 10-20 times the amount of profit than you do on mining for the same time, and maybe even more. With a cargo capacity of 128, I do 190.000 - 220.000 profit in one jump and takes 2 min, because skipping the supercruise, jumping stright for the station instead of the sun. The places I have farmed had, Prestine Reserves and Metallic and it's the best in the game they say. I can tell you that this is a joke. Im so dissapointed in Mining, and why the hell must we scoop up all the ores and minerals ? That part should be automatic, or some kind of tractor beam. It's broken the way it is now.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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Have you just admitted to cheating by using an exploit?
 

CmdrDaymian

CmdrDaymian
I don't know if anybody else has noticed this but Elite: Dangerous isn't really about making money. It's nice to make money and to have money, but money is only worth what you can spend it on. In Elite: Dangerous that is ships and modules. Once you've bought the ship you want for the thing that you find fun... money isn't an issue any longer. You have what you need for the game to be fun.

And besides this you DON'T have to rush to buy the biggest and most expensive ship. Why would you do that? Just because it's the biggest and most expensive? That's such a childish way to think. Each ship has a role. Even the Sidewinder has a role.

If you enjoy mining then you can do it in an Adder or the other hauler ship that costs 1 million credits. If you enjoy combat then you can do it in a Viper at a cost of around 200,000 credits. If you enjoy exploring you can do it in a Sidewinder with an intermediate discovery scanner and detailed surface scanner. If you enjoy trading then you can do it in pretty much anything.

Why do people think you always need to be making massive amounts of money? It makes no sense to me.
 
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