Newcomer / Intro Mining LTD's - what am I doing wrong?

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
  • I'm at Borann A2
  • I'm in a hotspot where about three overlap each other
  • I'm firing off my prospector limpets
  • I'm getting about one in fifteen 'roids with LTD's
  • Of those, about a third are > 20% loaded with LTD's

What am I missing? 200mCR an hour? Not for me it's not :confused::rolleyes::(
 

SportyScribe

SportyScribe
For what it is worth - I have never come close to the mega-bucks for a couple of reasons.
1) It took me a while to get into a more heavy-dury machine and learning the technique
2) To get the 1m+ CR means a lot of jumping and to be honest having lost My first Asp mining boat, I decided to only jump to the stations within one jump distance for around 0.5m CR so I knew I was never going to make the mega bucks
3) Comes down to the efficiency of the Prospector/Collector Limpet set up and how lucky you are with the rocks...

In the end with a bit of confidence shaken with losing a ship, I set myself a goal of getting enough to buy a Python, and then starting engineering and building up combat skills and I might come back to searching for the bigger trade prices now that I have managed to make myself a Combat Novice this weekend.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Well, I'm in an Anaconda with two prospectors limpets and three collector limpets, along with all hard points having mining lasers. It can get warm :D

It's not a meta mining build by any means but I expected to be finding more roids with LTD's than I am.

Perhaps Borann has been stripped bare.
 

SportyScribe

SportyScribe
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Well, I'm in an Anaconda with two prospectors limpets and three collector limpets, along with all hard points having mining lasers. It can get warm :D

It's not a meta mining build by any means but I expected to be finding more roids with LTD's than I am.

Perhaps Borann has been stripped bare.
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I found if I headed for the roids in the cold or complete darkness (night vision is just SO cool) I would find loads and chomp through quite quickly
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
It is just RNG - you can go for ages with only a few of your choices having good LTD content and then you have a period where every 3rd or 4th is an >30% LTD. What annoys me is when you get a sequence of LTD-core asteroids but only came fitted for laser-mining. ;)

P.S. Did you drop-in to the preferred / recommended area? (I choose a spot between the two close LTD hot-spots.)
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(Not my image - copied from "Miner's Tool")
 
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Nadreck

N
Could just be bad luck, I've had some unproductive days too. Even in the triple hotspot, LTD asteroids are in a minority, especially those with decent yields.

Make sure your ship can run at least 2 prospector limpets simultaneously (a size 3 controller or 2 size 1's). You can only target one at a time, but you can turn and fire another while the first is in transit. When the first hits and reports back, immediately target the second and turn to fire a third (if the first failed to find anything useful) until you find something. Always aim to have two prospectors in flight while searching. Begin with a hold almost full of limpets (I usually go with 250 in a 256t hold), better to have too many and dump some than not have enough.

While mining, your speed will probably be limited by your number of collector limpets rather than your lasers (my T10's 11 collectors can't keep up with 5 mining lances: I could mount size 2 lasers on most of those hardpoints for more blasting power, but I already have more than I need).

It usually takes me a couple of hours or so to fill my 256t hold.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Well, I'm in an Anaconda with two prospectors limpets and three collector limpets, along with all hard points having mining lasers. It can get warm :D

It's not a meta mining build by any means but I expected to be finding more roids with LTD's than I am.

Perhaps Borann has been stripped bare.
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When I tried LTD mining in my Anaconda I fitted 2 size 2 mining lasers and 2 size 1 mining lasers with 4 pips in Wep I don't run the capacitor dry too quickly, 5 collector limpet controllers 3x5 and 2x3, a size 3 prospector and a size 2 refinery.

I was dropping in around 10-20km from the middle hot spot and usually got 128 tonnes or so in around an hour. But there were times when as I headed towards that hot spot when I wouldn't find any LTDs for quite a while.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Frillop Freyraum said:
I'm not mining in Borann though, I've found even a quadruple hotspot (3 overlapping and 1 nested) in Colonia. I doubt it's stripped bare as I never shared this info yet and, while all systems with stations or outposts are well known in Colonia, I doubt all unpopulated systems are completely examined yet, especially when it comes to rings. Maybe the devs have toned down the distribution of LTDs globally now?
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The distribution will change when the Fleet Carrier update happens in June as they will be adding Tritium to the list of what can be found in rings, assuming nothing gets changed between the end of the beta and then.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Para Handy said:
It is just RNG - you can go for ages with only a few of your choices having good LTD content and then you have a period where every 3rd or 4th is an >30% LTD. What annoys me is when you get a sequence of LTD-core asteroids but only came fitted for laser-mining. ;)

P.S. Did you drop-in to the preferred / recommended area? (I choose a spot between the two close LTD hot-spots.)

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Hmm. Not sure I was quite in that zone. I'll try again on the morrow. Cheers (y)
 

d8veh

d8veh
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Well, I'm in an Anaconda with two prospectors limpets and three collector limpets, along with all hard points having mining lasers. It can get warm :D

It's not a meta mining build by any means but I expected to be finding more roids with LTD's than I am.

Perhaps Borann has been stripped bare.
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Dump the weapons. You don't need them. you should be able to use 8 collector limpets with an Anaconda, which will be much easier and more efficient.
I always aim for the edge of the middle spot marker that faces the big spot marker. I average about 200 mil per hour using a Python and 250 mil/hr with a Cutter. I just made 100 mil in an hour using an unengineered T6. Megabux are easy. You only have to land in the right spot and start mining (after the pirates have gone).
 

Codger

Codger
The next thing is to bind your primary firing button to a slider or 2-way switch on your joystick, so you can flip it and let the lasers fire without having to hold a button down the whole time :)
 

aRJay

aRJay
Codger said:
The next thing is to bind your primary firing button to a slider or 2-way switch on your joystick, so you can flip it and let the lasers fire without having to hold a button down the whole time :)
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I prefer to have the locked down fire capability on my secondary firing button that way it is useful in my combat ships for using the Kill Warrant Scanner as well as for laser mining, primary trigger is for prospector limpets the collectors are of course on the secondary with the lasers so they are automatically launched as needed.
 
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