Cores don't get altered in content generation count by hot spot, if the ring is going to generate a core every 100KM the ring will do so no matter hot spot or not... the chunks per core rock are fixed from the day fdev created the script that core rock will generate the same chunks every single time it explodes every 6 days that it can... failure to correctly explode a core is the only way to lower the value to <4 chunks…
Laser mining percentage per rock per each platinum rock generation is controlled by hot spot the nearer the centre the more chances of a high rock...
The number of chunks per rock is not controlled by hoy spot, that's controlled by the ring script, so a better ring will be better even more with a hotspot… This does mean that when you combine a High quality ring with a hot spot, that ring will generate higher value platinum percentage counts…
Res extraction sites add a multiplier to the LASER mined spat out chunks... this is why a laser miner can empty a rock without over heating outside a res but in side a res it can overheat before the rock is completed this is why a 2 beam miner may be fine outside a res but in a Haz res site it takes a lot longer to do each rock and drain the PD before its close to empty the rock…
Time to empty a rock vs finding a better rock..
With the high percentage for platinum change with the july 2020 update... all posts before that date are invalid for the stats...
The percentage to mine a laser rock vs skipping the rock did increase, but the research was never finished on painite ... It died a big death as the November 2020 price rebalance killed painite mining... Platinum change in july 2020 created it as the target option to laser mine...
All platinum Positives out way the other materials so the skip the rock number lower than 20% has not been pushed very hard..
Mine 20%-66.7% reject 19.9% and lower and find another...
Posting and reading on Reddit the current state of mining topics will get better results...
All this info was there just over multi new topics...
Due to the November 2020 changes to mining, trading and combat, those wanting credits and fast track to big money have left mining sub Reddit...
Many were only there because it paid, now that other activities pay more they left, they did not like mining at all and jumped instantly, so user count is now low on the mining sub Reddit...