Mining outside the Bubble?

[Cmdr Ultra]

Beta players is there any reason to do this?
More or different resources?
I remember talk about this but did it happen?
I want to go Deep Space Mining.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I don't think it's any different, except lack of NPC's, and a place to sell your payload.

 

[Jethro49]

I don't think it's any different, except lack of NPC's, and a place to sell your payload.

^ This. For me, the absence of these pesky pirates is a good reason to go far for mining. In the beta, I had no pirates after 350-400 LY out of the bubble. With a good fit on a T9, that's 15-20 jumps...

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

I want a resource or metal worth more than LTD's that you need to go 5000 light years out from the Bubble to find.
And richer materials the further out you go.
It would be satisfying to have to plan a mining expedition.

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

I'm just saw they have added new minerals to the Beta.
Rhodplumsite or Grandidierite anyone.....
High values too.

 

[Deareim]

OP : it means actual missions with actual purposes. which lead us to actual content from FD. So no.
And yeah, there is no reason even to mine. But more reasons to pirating.

 

[Saltyseadog]

I don't think it's any different, except lack of NPC's, and a place to sell your payload.

Don't be too sure about the lack of NPC's?. Around 2-3 years ago I decided to do a long range exploration hike outside the bubble but take my time and scan everything as well as mining where I found metallic ringed planets. I duly set off in my mining rigged Python full of limpets and stopped seeing NPC's or indeed any other signs of life after a few days. Around 700ly out I found a metallic ring and decided to do a spot of mining. As soon as I entered the rings in normal space two npc's appeared. Now to be honest they never attacked me just scanned me and left but this was the story most of the time on entering a ring system to mine. I think there must be some sort of trigger/algorithm that causes this when a ship enters a planets rings. I thought it was very funny as I never saw evidence of any other ships out there at all except when I dropped out in a ringed system. I was out there for 3-4 months and got to 5000+ly before the loneliness/boredom got to me and I set off back to the bubble.

 

[777Driver]

Don't be too sure about the lack of NPC's?. Around 2-3 years ago I decided to do a long range exploration hike outside the bubble but take my time and scan everything as well as mining where I found metallic ringed planets. I duly set off in my mining rigged Python full of limpets and stopped seeing NPC's or indeed any other signs of life after a few days. Around 700ly out I found a metallic ring and decided to do a spot of mining. As soon as I entered the rings in normal space two npc's appeared. Now to be honest they never attacked me just scanned me and left but this was the story most of the time on entering a ring system to mine. I think there must be some sort of trigger/algorithm that causes this when a ship enters a planets rings. I thought it was very funny as I never saw evidence of any other ships out there at all except when I dropped out in a ringed system. I was out there for 3-4 months and got to 5000+ly before the loneliness/boredom got to me and I set off back to the bubble.

I have been deep space mining for years, NPC's should not spawn unless there is a base within a certain radius (a few hundred LY) Have never come across any NPC's in remote regions whilst mining, except when in proximity to a remote asteroid base.

 

[BaddMongo]

Systems with pristine or major reserves seem to be a lot more common outside the bubble than in it on my few forays out in to the black.

 

[Frank]

That's No Moon

Don't be too sure about the lack of NPC's?. Around 2-3 years ago I decided to do a long range exploration hike outside the bubble but take my time and scan everything as well as mining where I found metallic ringed planets. I duly set off in my mining rigged Python full of limpets and stopped seeing NPC's or indeed any other signs of life after a few days. Around 700ly out I found a metallic ring and decided to do a spot of mining. As soon as I entered the rings in normal space two npc's appeared. Now to be honest they never attacked me just scanned me and left but this was the story most of the time on entering a ring system to mine. I think there must be some sort of trigger/algorithm that causes this when a ship enters a planets rings. I thought it was very funny as I never saw evidence of any other ships out there at all except when I dropped out in a ringed system. I was out there for 3-4 months and got to 5000+ly before the loneliness/boredom got to me and I set off back to the bubble.

If 777Driver is right then maybe you stumbled on something...


"A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own."

"He must have gotten lost, been part of a convoy or something."

"Well, he ain't going to be around long enough to tell anyone about us."

"Look at him. He's headed for that small moon."

 

[777Driver]

Systems with pristine or major reserves seem to be a lot more common outside the bubble than in it on my few forays out in to the black.

Everything is pristine outside of the bubble.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Beta players is there any reason to do this?
More or different resources?
I remember talk about this but did it happen?
I want to go Deep Space Mining.

With the new extremely valuable gems from deep core mining in Beta 4, Frontier certainly *could* add set it up so that there's an even more valuable gem (>1 million per tonne) where the hotspots can only be found in a particular nebula / region a long way from Sol.

Take a big mining ship out there with a bunch of seismic charge launchers and an abrasion blaster, make sure you've got an SRV so you can restock your synthesis of limpets and charges, come back with half a billion of profit.

Whether they *have* or not I suspect we won't find out for a while - most miners won't head out that far on the off-chance that they might have, and most explorers won't go around mapping rings routinely or necessarily recognise what they've stumbled across if they do. I certainly think they *should* be seeding a few of these out in the distance, though. There are lots of interesting possibilities if they do.

 

[Phazon Xenomorph]

I want a resource or metal worth more than LTD's that you need to go 5000 light years out from the Bubble to find.
And richer materials the further out you go.
It would be satisfying to have to plan a mining expedition.

Which could make sense since most of the galaxies materials wouldn't be likely known if anything more obscure is out there. Could be mysteries to find with an unknown material type found far in the middle of nowhere. Or even add flavor... systems with black holes and mineable ring worlds or asteroid belts could spit out new hyper dense materials... but that level of scope i fear would greatly be beyond the reach of this game in it's present state.

 

[Dave G]

Agree with this ^. A chance to find a material unknown to bubble science, and worth a fortune... that could kick off a whole new Galnet story as scientists investigate the new material brought back by Cmdr X, and may trigger a new set of improved kit for ships or stations..... If FD seed this stuff in the black, then that would be a great player-driven story to follow.

 

[Drelthar]

In a hideous case of standard FD procedure, this opportunity has been squandered I'm afraid.

All rings are the same.

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

Take a big mining ship out there with a bunch of seismic charge launchers and an abrasion blaster, make sure you've got an SRV so you can restock your synthesis of limpets and charges, come back with half a billion of profit.

This is would be perfect. The need to gather mats to sustain your operation and synthesis of limpets or ammo for mining gear on a long trip.

 

[Cmdr Nemo]

I only mine in my conda outside the bubble and generally some place more than a 100 ly. My conda has a far better range than my python with a simular but smaller loadout. Thus I can get to where I wish and back again with little or no problem. I've on occasion and only when with in two jumps from a station come across an NPC. And never have they been pirates. I never run across pirates until I've reentered the bubble. In which case not having any weapon's knowing how to high wake immediately is an asset one should really learn how to do proficently. Mining in the bubble one needs to have weapon's which add addition mass, not having weapons increases the ability to not mine in the bubble and thus not be confronted all the times in which case they need weapons. I learned years ago that in real life that the fast way or routing isn't always the shortest way. The same would hold true in most video games.