A Python is a good laser mining ship, a T10 can make money and collect materials faster, but if you're going big a Cutter would make more sense because it can beat all of them.
Mining problem.
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A Corvette.
The "best" heavy laser-mining ship is almost certainly the Cutter.
You can, basically, fly toward an asteroid at full-speed, start shooting with half a dozen mining lasers, ram the asteroid head-on and the location of the cargo scoop is perfect so your limpets can quickly gather ore... which won't have floated away because of how quickly you arrived and how much firepower you have to deplete the 'roid.
Personally, I just couldn't bring myself to use a Cutter for mining.
It's like filling a Beluga with cargo racks and using it as a bulk hauler. It's just... wrong.
Faced with the choice of using an Annie or a Corvette, it's a bit of a "swings and roundabouts" thing.
The Annie can let you fit more mining lasers but it's hardpoints are kind of scattered around the hull. The 'vette allows you to fill all the smaller hardpoints with mining lasers and keep the 2x huge hardpoints for a laser/MC combo' to make pirates go away.
Internally, the Annie is almost as good as the 'vette, but only if you're willing to fit a smaller refinery and, even then, the 'vette has a couple more collectors (15 vs 13).
It's worth bearing in mind, as well, that there's a "double-whammy" thing going on if you use an Annie 'cos you can fit more lasers, which generate more chunks of ore, but you'll have fewer collectors so gathering ore can be more messy.
Anyway, my mining 'vette has the same cargo capacity as my T10 (256t), 5 more collectors (15 vs 10) a slightly larger refinery (C4 vs C3) and way more shield/hull... and I can happily fly around, firing off prospectors like a chimp flinging poop, without worrying that they're going to die.
If i ever defect to the Imperials i will give it a try, it just seems really bulky as a miner
Like anyone would ever do that
(cough)Never tried the Vette, only ever bought one for combat, may give it a look.
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For straight laser work I prefer my T9, 512t and 15 limpets
A Cutter is unbeatable as a miner. Mine has extracted half a million tons and earned me around 250 billion credits. Average earnings for platinum mining is around 200 million per hr. Nothing else comes close.If i ever defect to the Imperials i will give it a try, it just seems really bulky as a miner
Like anyone would ever do that
Never tried the Vette, only ever bought one for combat, may give it a look.
O7
There's nothing wrong with infiltrating the Empire and pretending you're one of them, while you steal their secrets and stuff. That's what any self-respecting enemy would do.
Move away from the cargo hatch, and don't twist much. Twisting is what causes the problem in most cases. You can be moving at any speed as long as you are using upward thrust and not twisting much.
I tried one for a bit and couldn't earn as much as the Cutter. I hated it anyway. It's probably not so bad now with SCO, but we used to get a lot more interdictions, which was always a problem to escape with the T9, while as with the Cutter, you just stick your middle finger up, boost away, while shouting Yah boo sucks to you!
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That depends on where you mine, all of my mining is now done out in the black.
T9 has same problem with prospectors, keep it straight and speed under 35 and problems gone.
Yes, I knew about that, but I'm confused about what do you mine for out there and where do you sell it?
Mainly Tritium, I keep Bromellite and LTD's and I will occasionally have a dig in a metallic ring, I am carrier based so sell when I get back to bubble, I mine when I want a break from exploring and salad bashing
I mine exclusively in a Type-9 with a vintage 2016 mining build and don´t even have other large mining ships if one scrolls through my fleet. All these new sleek and enfeebling Cutters, Corvettes and other Mandalames - all for the weak man. A good old 5-hardpoint, constantly overheating monster of a mining machine that is the T-9 is all I need in life. A monumental apocalypse tearing through at a proper 70-knots while shaking violently instead of zipping around the asteroids like a spaz. Carrying up to 700 tons no less.
Currently mining for the Princess´s merits and already sitting at rank 30 after a few days. Soon I´ll be baptising myself in her bath waters, too.
Shoutout to Type-10 miners, but... you took the easy route.
Currently mining for the Princess´s merits and already sitting at rank 30 after a few days. Soon I´ll be baptising myself in her bath waters, too.
Shoutout to Type-10 miners, but... you took the easy route.
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Also T9 only has a size 6 power distributor. Can you strip a full asteroid in one go with 7 lasers running continuously? (oh yeah only 5 hardpoints ;p)
Yes, weapon focused, flow control on the PD, 3 x 2D lasers 20 - 25 second burst will kill an asteroid, the only exception is when mining some ringed stars because of background heat. Ice Maiden
I've only used my PWA for core mining - is it useful for sub-surface detection too? (Or indeed something linked to laser mining...)
Its a hangover from when I occasionally chucked a SCL on her, it can be used to detect sub-surface deposits, that T9 has been in use for the last 6 years
It's like filling a Beluga with cargo racks and using it as a bulk hauler. It's just... wrong.
The Beluga is my mining ship!
Very true and i have 4 Cutters just never thought of trying to navigate one through the rocks, they just seem like those oversized ocean liners us Brits made for century's because we can.
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A Corvette.
The "best" heavy laser-mining ship is almost certainly the Cutter.
You can, basically, fly toward an asteroid at full-speed, start shooting with half a dozen mining lasers, ram the asteroid head-on and the location of the cargo scoop is perfect so your limpets can quickly gather ore... which won't have floated away because of how quickly you arrived and how much firepower you have to deplete the 'roid.
Personally, I just couldn't bring myself to use a Cutter for mining.
It's like filling a Beluga with cargo racks and using it as a bulk hauler. It's just... wrong.
Faced with the choice of using an Annie or a Corvette, it's a bit of a "swings and roundabouts" thing.
The Annie can let you fit more mining lasers but it's hardpoints are kind of scattered around the hull. The 'vette allows you to fill all the smaller hardpoints with mining lasers and keep the 2x huge hardpoints for a laser/MC combo' to make pirates go away.
Internally, the Annie is almost as good as the 'vette, but only if you're willing to fit a smaller refinery and, even then, the 'vette has a couple more collectors (15 vs 13).
It's worth bearing in mind, as well, that there's a "double-whammy" thing going on if you use an Annie 'cos you can fit more lasers, which generate more chunks of ore, but you'll have fewer collectors so gathering ore can be more messy.
Anyway, my mining 'vette has the same cargo capacity as my T10 (256t), 5 more collectors (15 vs 10) a slightly larger refinery (C4 vs C3) and way more shield/hull... and I can happily fly around, firing off prospectors like a chimp flinging poop, without worrying that they're going to die.
I got a good deal on an old Cutter that was just going to be scrapped. Turned it into an awesome miner...
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given my rule of only 1 ship of each type and a role for each ship....... for now my T9 is my heavy trade ship.. I am quite a long way off rep wise to get a cutter.
as it stands I only have a mining and 1 collector controller then a.small prospector.
however I have an SLF which at least for where I am now it's totally redundant. in around 8hrs of mining I have not been attacked once so I think I will swap that out for more collectors.
the ramming tactic seems interesting.. I may fit 2 more mining lasers and give that a go.
thanks.