Newcomer / Intro Mining Platinum

MarKr The Real One

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Hi,

normally when I find some LTD hotspot it doesn't take me long to find some asteroids with LTDs for surface mining but when I find a Platinum hotspot, I often find osmium, samarium, praseodium and other stuff but almost never platinum asteroids. Sure, there are the platinum core-asteroids but the surface mining for platinum seems very rare. Have I just been unlucky or is this a common experience?

Also, are there any double or triple overlapping Platinum hotspots?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Used to be the 3 P's were the rare stuff that gave good prices on finding and mining it - then explodey mining and the associated high value stuff demoted them. (LTDs were around but were often only found in collections of rocking-horse manure.)
 

MarKr The Real One

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metatheurgist said:
Wasn't it great when there was more than one thing worth mining?
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This got me thinking...how does the supply/demand work in this game? I mean...I've been playing it for about a year and when I started the mining meta had already been "just go for LTDs" - most "mining guides" mention almost exclusively LTDs, sometimes void opals. If most miners in last (at least) year have been mining only this specific mineral and have supplied billions of tons of it all over the bubble, one would say the market (even if it is as big as the bubble) should have been flooded with LTDs and their price should be pretty low by now.

Actually...why are LTDs even possible to mine with lasers? Or maybe better question would be "why aren't the other rare minerals possible to mine with lasers?" I pressume that one of the reasons the LTDs are so popular is that they can be mined relatively quickly with surface-mining in a hotspot (especially the overlapping ones) and if you happen to find in that hotspot a core asteroid, it just gives you more of what you're collecting there anyway but with others, you can only get the minerals from cores and that takes significantly longer time. If all the rare minerals were possible to surface-mine people wouldn't need to focus on mining of one thing over and over again.

Or is there some problem with it I am missing?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
MarKr The Real One said:
This got me thinking...how does the supply/demand work in this game?...
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With a simple local model, i.e. supply and demand is only applied to any individual station. The station has a supply (demand) level and a regeneration time constant for that level. And yes, it's possible to oversaturate demand, or exhaust supply. At least it was possible when there still were CGs. Those mass transport CGs always ran out of close by supply stations, so the longer the CG was going on, the farther you'd have to roam to find the stuff. Unless a change in the BGS state resultet in one station or another to increase supply generation again.
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Supply is relatively easy to destroy, but demand isn't. It doesn't have a great deal of impact on the listed price, and bounces back really quickly. Low demand does effect the offered price when you have a lot (as seen with LTD), but that's another process and is fairly static.
States have a much bigger effect than anything else.
 
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