Mining Question

[Shaedy]

So, been playing Elite Dangerous now for a few weeks and love it! Been trying a number of different things in game with a good friend of mine. We decided to give mining a try. So we find this nice asteroid belt and start mining. We noticed that the same rock happen to be giving us both different metals. Is this intended? You would think in a persistent world that the same rock would give us both the same metal. It appears that each person gets their own resource pool though. Is that true?


Thanks,
Shaedy!

 

[Celeste]

So, been playing Elite Dangerous now for a few weeks and love it! Been trying a number of different things in game with a good friend of mine. We decided to give mining a try. So we find this nice asteroid belt and start mining. We noticed that the same rock happen to be giving us both different metals. Is this intended? You would think in a persistent world that the same rock would give us both the same metal. It appears that each person gets their own resource pool though. Is that true?


Thanks,
Shaedy!

That's how I understand it. Each instance is a random re-spawn of the same type of asteroids.

 

[Shaedy]

I am not talking about in separate instances. My friend and I are in the same instance, our ships right next to each other, firing our mining lasers on the exact same asteroid. We can see each other's laser hitting the rock and see each others pieces coming off of the asteroid. So the question is why are we both getting something different. For example he gets gold pieces and I get gallite from the SAME asteroid. We move to another rock, he gets silver and I get gold. Shouldn't the same rock in a instance give both of us the same resource? Otherwise how you can work together with a friend to mine certain metals? This makes no sense.

-Shaedy!

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

Yes you are quite correct, however, the metals in the asteroid are recalculated on the fly on your PC. Hence you spawn with silver in that one, whilst your friend get's gold.