Mining outside the bubble
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I have also wondered about this myself.
I think a good explorer will also mine now and then, just to see what can be found. Because it wouldn't be strange to find diamonds and other exotic gems, elements etc.
Yes but its along way back to sell the goods.
Look for pristine systems which yield the best results, there are some in the bubble and many not too far out.
Why explorers include a mining laser in their builds: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/308075-End-of-the-Road
generally there is no need to mine in a RES at all. you get some better spawn rates, but you'll deal with pirates a lot (a bit less in high security systems with system security around). mining in a RES i usually make more from bounties, than from mining... so i generally mine outside of RES, but also rarely outside the bubble. even if some remote systems make great harbours for a miner. last week i mined for a CG in the pleiades region - visually stunning out there.
there is for exampel an uninhabited system close to sol, with the spooky light of a white dwarf, and several gas giants with pristine rings of all kind, lft 65 (i think). and a lot of high paying industrial and high tech stations "next door". when i played more central of the bubble, i always went mining there. now i am mainly based at the edges, and there are a lot of pristine metallic rings around.
there is for exampel an uninhabited system close to sol, with the spooky light of a white dwarf, and several gas giants with pristine rings of all kind, lft 65 (i think). and a lot of high paying industrial and high tech stations "next door". when i played more central of the bubble, i always went mining there. now i am mainly based at the edges, and there are a lot of pristine metallic rings around.
Yes, you can mine anywhere in the Milky Way. (Apart from COL 275 SIG 7 a 3 - cos that's my turf buddy ;-) )
Although, the number of Pristine rings inside the bubble would make me question your sanity to do so.
Mining outside of bubble is currently performed by explorers looking for materials to repair SRV or more likely enable FSD boosts.
Although, the number of Pristine rings inside the bubble would make me question your sanity to do so.
Mining outside of bubble is currently performed by explorers looking for materials to repair SRV or more likely enable FSD boosts.
Pretty much this. Hardcore explorers looking to eek out as much LY from the FSD will not slot any hardpoints let alone refineries... unless absolutely necessary. Even then, that is going to be a whole lot of wasted time jumping out there. Then you have to consider jumping back to a port to sell it which I assume is more since you are pushing more mass with the added mats.
Speaking of RES . . . pretty much the advice is don't mine in one 
You can just head into any other part of the ring, boost about 50km away from your entry point (to get away from any pirate npcs that might spawn) and you'll never see another ship until you head back to port to sell off your goods
You can just head into any other part of the ring, boost about 50km away from your entry point (to get away from any pirate npcs that might spawn) and you'll never see another ship until you head back to port to sell off your goods
Materials have no weight. Mined commodities do have weight though.
Thanks, I had a notion that it might be a useful thing to bring along, it's good to know I wasn't completely crazy =]
I flew an explorer ship out and searched for a pristine metallic ring out in the black. I finally found one about 700LY out from the bubble and flew my T9 miner out to it. Mined stuff in peace and quiet.
You could stay there indefinately if you had people bringing you resupply of limpets in exchange for some metals
You could stay there indefinately if you had people bringing you resupply of limpets in exchange for some metals
I flew an explorer ship out and searched for a pristine metallic ring out in the black. I finally found one about 700LY out from the bubble and flew my T9 miner out to it. Mined stuff in peace and quiet.
You could stay there indefinately if you had people bringing you resupply of limpets in exchange for some metals
sounds like a nice group action.
I lucked into one maybe 70LY from a big high-tech system by just pointing at a random spot on the galaxy map, that was fun and totally terminated my ambitions to go long-range mining
Presumably, given that there are no NPC pirates outside the bubble, if one had a big enough ship and the right resource site it might be profitable to load up outside the bubble and quick sneak your way back in to sell..?
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1. npc pirates spawn outside the bubble with an approximate radius of ~500 ly of the last inhabited system.
2. as you can mine in uninhabited systems with pristine rings one jump from a port to sell, deep space mining is never more profitable than going to that uninhabited pristine system next door.
All uninhabited systems have pristine rings?
I thought this was only outside the Bubble..
hard to proof, hm? did you visit all uninhabited systems outside the bubble, or all uninhabited systems in the bubble?
i can confirm, that there are uninhabited systems in the bubble with pristine reserves. there are even inhabited systems with pristine reserves in the bubble.