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LTD hotspots never worked like that.
The only time when LDT were profitable to be laser mined was in a triple overlap. A double never worked good enough for LTD
So the entire LTD rush happened because the following things happened at the same time: triple overlap found, LTD not affected by demand, public holiday made possible for LTD to reach 1.7 millions per ton.
And they made sure to nerf every single factor: they nerfed the overlaps, the introduced demand for LTD and they capped the prices. Overkill
And that's the whole issue, isn't it?
Plus, it's highly inconsistent.
Although probably almost noone ever did it - I sampled Bromellite Hotspots (generic single Hotspots) for yields and abundance.... and lo & behold - unsurprisingly, Laser Mining there yielded tons of Bromellite in no time as it should.
So it's not a fundamentally "trying to go Laser Mining in an Icy Ring" issue - it's a dedicated "yield and abundance of LTDs for Laser Mining in an LTD Hotspot are by an order of magnitude too low in so-called LTD Hotspots" issue.
If they fixed that, at least it'd be an alternative to the new Platinum+Osmium Meta that has evolved - short of folks playing "lost sub" and go core-mining to chase Cores over hours in mapped or even non-mapped Hotspots.
It's a bit of a mess...
So until that is fixed, I guess I'll continue harvesting 50-60% Platinum Asteroids in generic Hotspots, where like every 5th Asteroid indeed contains solid yields - or a nice secondary ore like Osmium to go along with it.
