I like hanging out on the edge of the galaxy,I'm yet to find a pristine ring. Even if I did the drop rate isn't where my personal logic says it should be from a time perspective. From a gameplay perspective I don't think tritium was a good choice as a fuel,it artificially hobbles the FC's and bring adventures to a grinding halt.A rated prospector, plenty of collectors and 2 or 3 lasers will do 100 t/hr in a good pristine ring, SD/SSD mining with a fast agile ship will do up to double that.
I average around 100 t/hr in my Cutter doing a combination of both But the Cutter is not as agile as some of the medium sized ships and I keep stopping to deal with the other cores I find
I also spend most of my time well outside the bubble, Tritium mining is definitely not the best way to fuel carriers but it looks as if its here to stay, it could do with a lot of improvement though.
My carrier takes 130 / jump.... but yes, you are right about, 100t/h is a drop.... when you can just take your carrier on the door of a station with stock and in 30 min you can load 5-6000 tones, enough to fuel you up to Colonia.
When I need credits, I do missions and earn about 250M to 350M per hour per account in the wing. With 3 accounts, I can reliably earn around 1B in the first 2 hours, and then earn about 1B/hr for subsequent hours. My best run was 5B in 4 hours.
In certain systems, you'll find 7 day wing mining missions for Gold, Silver, Bertrandite. In Boom state, you'll also see 24 hour "fetch" missions where you're required to buy a commodity (gold, silver, palladium, tritium) and return it for mission reward. The wing mining missions earn up to 50M each. Since they're 7 day missions, you can stack them during the week and complete them in a single session for maximum efficiency. Since I have three accounts, I can accumulate up to 60. And since I can transfer funds between the accounts, the maximum gross amount I can earn from stacked wing mining missions in a single session is 60 X 50M X 3 = 9B. Practically speaking, the max I've earned from a combination of wing mining missions + Boom fetch missions is around 5-6B in a 5 hr period. Of the wing mining missions, gold pays 50M for ~200t, silver pays 50M for ~400t, Bertrandite pays 50M for ~660t. Of the Boom fetch missions, gold pays 25-35M for ~25t, silver pays 25-35M for 50t, palladium pays 25-35M for 25t, tritium pays 25-35M for ~20t. The keys to maximum profit rate are (1) keep the system factions out of war/election/expansion, and (2) don't take low profit margin missions (e.g. 750t to 900t of Bertrandite for 50M). Item (1) is hard to do if multiple people are working the system in uncoordinated, short-term greedy fashion because the accumulated influence of completed missions can easily push two factions into war. In the system I've used, there are 7 factions where the top faction is a player-backed faction that maintains a wide margin to the rest of the factions that are closely spaced. So, in that system, I've had to push up the lower factions with equal influence until they're spread apart, thus pulling down the player faction significantly. The player faction doesn't like that and often works to quickly restore the system. This all makes for interesting and intellectually challenging game play. Over the years, I've extracted around 35B from that one star system.
I don't think an FC can carry enough Tritium from the Bubble to Beagles Point and back agian.
"My best run was 5B in 4 hours."
He said he used twinks, that means he was doing wing missions. Which pays out 50 mil and +3 twinks = 200 mil 1 payout. You can take missions for all 4, which mean 4 missions ended on 4 accounts will do 800 mil total.
take on 1st account 4 missions for 50 mils payout for gold, which i can buy.. shared to 4 account 4 x 50 = 200 mil per mission. I have 4 of them = 800 mil
Here you make first mistake :
- then IS NOT any more 50 millions per mission but 30-35 only. ( gold price is between 40-50 k / tone ! ) - or you know a trick and some stations give you some 2000 tones of gold for free ? ! . Do not mix here the account profit with the TEAM profit ( 2 or 50 guys/accounts) ; We are talking about ONE person, right ? And not about a team of 5-10-50 players / accounts .Dude...shaking my head here.Here you make first mistake :
"take on 1st account 4 missions for 50 mils payout for gold" - lol, you won't get 4 gold missions at once. And for sure not even from the same station.
Secondly: - math will kill you:
"gold, which i can buy!"
- to buy ore for 4 missions of 50 millions is AT LEAST 30-40 minutes, since that means some 800-1000+ tones ! ( only Gold mission s the exception, but that is rare and to get 4 of them at once is a wet dream also.
"20 mission for 5 bils!" - nop, that is 20 x 30 (35) and that is just some 7-800 millions NOT 5 billions !
And sharing a mission will NOT give you extra credits on that account, but yes, in OTHER account AFTER you log out / log in, etc.
Next step - runs to BUY and runs to unload. That take time also.A lot more than just 10 minutes.
Lets consider best case scenario: you search and get 5 missions of 50 millions for GOLD - you won't get that from just one station- you will need AT LEAST 4-5 stations.
That is already some 15-20 minutes to fly by, dock, etc.
Now let's go and buy the gold . - and will be at least 2 runs, even in a Cutter, and lets say you are lucky and you get to buy the gold from BIG stations and not from medium pads - so you can use a Cutter - that is again another 15-20 minutes. After 45-50 minutes, if ALL work perfectly ( no interdiction, no Pirates, etc) - you deliver the ore for 5 missions.
We are in the 40-50 minutes range. Now, the funy & dummy part - relog - how many times ? 5 times from main account ( you only can share ONE mission at a time ! ) And 5 times from other 4 accounts. Do the fraking math: 25 log-in / log out - at least 20 minutes JUST for that !
So after MORE than one hour you get what : 35-40 millions x 5 = 180-200 millions in main account and ONLY THAT.
250 millions in each other 4 accounts.
Important fact: NO ACCOUNT manage to get more than 250 millions in over one hour !
( all that considering you are lucky and you get not one but FIVE gold missions, ALL in 50 millions category ( never saw myself that in over 3 years ! ) AND you never got interdicted AND the station who sells you the gold have enough stock, AND is no longer than 1-2 jumps...
"P.S. and if you didn't know, if 1 account ends mission, other 3 gets each 50 mil too if it was shared mission." lol, I think I know a bit more than you suppose.
Again, the "detail" the account who shares one or 20 or 50 missions will NOT get a single extra credit from sharing.
Now, one may argue "my 200 accounts made 5 billions in 4 hours" - sure that is possible, just have 50 guys in a clan , all sharing, and the can bake 2 billions / hour ALL TOGETHER, but in this case to say " MY best run was...." is just a fake statement, right ? Cuz is a team effort and not an individual one.
If you are alone, no matter how many accounts you have, you simply cannot reach 6 billions / 4 hours / account - elementary math will laugh at you.
Again, to say """My best run was 5B in 4 hours."" is pure fantasy. Like me to say here, I make 1 trillion / hour. But the fool is not the one who drop the crap, but the one who believe....
You confuse the credits one make per account with the bulk made for a wing. Are different things, dude.
) you have accumulated 5-10 wing missions per account" - are you aware you can only share ONE mission and just one, at a time ?!Again, these are multiple accounts owned by the same player. Who cares which particular account has the credits? A single player is making the credits. That's the only thing that matters.
"Who cares which particular account has the credits?" so, moving credits from one pocket to other is now called "earning credits" .
"How would you do that 25k LYs away from the bubble and you need Tritium?
You are either very unlucky or terrible at finding systems with ice rings in them. Any system far from any bubble (SOL and Colonia) should be Prestine. Have you mapped the rings to find the hotspots?
