Mining tritium question

[Homerzilla]

I found out THE best way to get Tritium from mining is to "dive" in ResH with a properly equipped ship - 2 of the "big 3" can - and will ! - do the job perfectly, the Vette and Annie, and with some extra precautions, even the Cutter.
But is one very important condition, aside from the peculiar, and carefully build ( here I can help anyone who need an advice) - this condition is to find the ResH who is overlapping the Tritium hotspot !
Are not too many, so is worth booking those - I can tell you, from my own experience, you can get over 200 tones in 30-45 minutes, easily, with the added bonus of some great credits from bounties.
I filled by carrier with over 7000 tones in just 2 weeks, like that, here in Colonia - more than enough to get back and with a reserve of some extra 1000 tones.
Hell, I even turn Tritium from mining to those especial missions where the payout is great ( 30-100 millions for 30-70 tones of Tritium).

The business with Tritium in Colonia is flourishing, and is so booming I could even permit the "luxury" of transfer of some ships you cannot get here ( Chieftain, Challenger, etc) from the bubble, at the "premium" cost of 120-140 millions a piece ....

 

[Esare Kranse]

May I ask, how did you get a carrier without mining?

Beside the mining rushes, I have no idea how one could possibly get this kind of money by other means.

Exploration makes cash too, plenty of it and no-one is pirating you to get to the data. One well routed trip from the bubble to sag A and back will get you about a billion in new system discoveries. I made 600 mil just on a round trip to the Eagle nebula.

Currently working up to getting a Fleet carrier so I only need to go back to the bubble when I want to buy a new ship, or new toys for my ships.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I don’t really know anything about mining. However, I do have a carrier that has mostly just been sitting around. I know a lot of people use them for exploration, how long does it usually take to mine a 100t or so of trit? Is laser or deep core the preferred method?

Go RES mining in ice rings (Lasers). You'll have 100T in no time.

Bring something with a strong shield and stick close to system security. Or bring yourself an AFK turret boat and farm bounties while you collect your Tritium

 

[Homerzilla]

Go RES mining in ice rings (Lasers). You'll have 100T in no time.

Bring something with a strong shield and stick close to system security. Or bring yourself an AFK turret boat and farm bounties while you collect your Tritium

"You'll have 100T in no time." - Not really, mate.... you may lose 1h or more for some petty 100 tones !

I can say, using common sense and logic, mining for tritium in Bubble is silly, at least. With 1 tone of platinum / osmium, etc you buy 5-6 tones of tritium !


The ONLY place where you may consider to mine Tritium is Colonia ( where I am ...) since there are no stations to sell Tritium in significant quantiles - ie, more than some dozens !
But in Bubble are dozens (!) of stations selling Tritium, some of them large pads with stocks above 5-10 even 15 000 !

Mine 250 tones of platinum, osmium, etc, or mission related brome ( brome for missions will pay you 250-300k / tone ! ) AND with the credits you get you can buy up to 1000 (!!) tones of Tritium.
Fastest way, cheaper, and logical;
Now, if you are in Colonia and you need Tritium, things are different - here you MUST mine your Tritium. If this is the case, just beep me, I gladly help you.

 

[Falcon_D]

With me, sub surface mining nets me about 100+ Tritium an hour. I also do a bit of surface mining cause I try to conserve my sub surface ammo.

Ammo pretty much runs out before the hour is up. Tells you how much I suck at shooting that thing.

I’m pretty much 3/4 of the way to SagA* with my carrier. Taking my own sweet time. Currently mining Tritium to fill up the tank again.

 

[PontifusRex]

Thanks to Frontier for making Tritium virtually impossible to get in Colonia, forcing you to mine it and then not fixing the broken yields. Winning!

 

[Homerzilla]

With me, sub surface mining nets me about 100+ Tritium an hour. I also do a bit of surface mining cause I try to conserve my sub surface ammo.

Ammo pretty much runs out before the hour is up. Tells you how much I suck at shooting that thing.

I’m pretty much 3/4 of the way to SagA* with my carrier. Taking my own sweet time. Currently mining Tritium to fill up the tank again.

If you are in bubble, then you lose time mate.... A metallic ring can give you 30-40 Platinum in 2 minutes with simple laser mining - in 2-3 minute you get more than you need to buy MORE than 100 tritium - you see why I said mining tritium in bubble is silly ?
And you never run out of "ammo" or you need 2 pay 4

Myself, when I need Tritium, I take a miner Cutter with 3 x class 2 mining lasers,. 3 class V limpets, and in 30-40 minutes I fill 512 Platinum - That is more than enough to buy some 2500 tones of Tritium. Problem solved. Fast. Cheap.

 

[Homerzilla]

Thanks to Frontier for making Tritium virtually impossible to get in Colonia, forcing you to mine it and then not fixing the broken yields. Winning!

Not true mate, are plenty of stations selling Tritium in Bubble, literary DOZENS of them !

And if you insist on punishing yourself, and you really want to lose time and mine your tritium instead of just buy, in bubble - then search for Haz zones overlapping Tritium Hot Spots.
Closer the overlapping, better. Are not many of them, so is worth to place bookmarks on what you find.
The yield is the biggest there, a single rock of 30-33% will give you 20-24 tones of Tritium.

 

[PontifusRex]

Not true mate, are plenty of stations selling Tritium in Bubble, literary DOZENS of them !

I don't consider Colonia part of the bubble.

 

[Homerzilla]

I don't consider Colonia part of the bubble.

Then, WHY you do not just BUY the Tritium ? Like I said, are dozens of stations selling ! If you have some credits problem , then just fast mine some Platinum and sell that - you get 5 tones of tritium for each Platinum !

 

[CapuchinSeven]

A lot of people calling each other mate in this thread but I'm not convinced they are really mates squinting Fry face

 

[TrollhunterX]

I don’t really know anything about mining. However, I do have a carrier that has mostly just been sitting around. I know a lot of people use them for exploration, how long does it usually take to mine a 100t or so of trit? Is laser or deep core the preferred method?

I posted this in my thread speculating about an upgrade to the SSD Missile. Nowadays. I'd probably do a few Robigo runs, and buy the Tritium.

'The latest CG has shown me how important this device is, tripling my yield of tritium. On the last foray, I filled my hold with 128 tonnes, and the 8 bins, making 14 million credits, versus little over 30 tonnes prior to running out of limpets, before using SSD Mining.

The only downside is that tricky minigame. After a while I start to suffer from 'dartitis', especially with the thinner blue bars. I would've thought that there would be a modification available that used technology mats to make a smarter SSDM, making the bars wider, but a search shows nothing. The holy grail would be a SSDM that triggered automatically on blue bars, but that's too much to hope for.'

 

[varonica]

May I ask, how did you get a carrier without mining?

Beside the mining rushes, I have no idea how one could possibly get this kind of money by other means.

I am sure the same way most of us did, saved up money from other things, like exploration, mission running, combat etc.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Then, WHY you do not just BUY the Tritium ?

Because I enjoy mining.

It's fine if you want to give threeofseven some advice, but don't be in here crapping on the rest of us just because you're a cr/h ho.

 

[Homerzilla]

Because I enjoy mining.

It's fine if you want to give threeofseven some advice, but don't be in here crapping on the rest of us just because you're a cr/h ho.

I do enjoy mining, and my credits come from mining 75% - I just cannot enjoy making stupid decisions, against common sense and logic.
And do not make dumb assumptions - "...but don't be in here crapping on the rest of us just because you're a cr/h ho." - may I ask how you reach this deep,"smart" conclusion ?!

Cuz I suggested several times to MINE platinum or brome or anything with high pay instead of tritium ....

But I bet you do not even bothered to read that, instead you drop here your "crap" assumption....

 

[K Olley]

With me, sub surface mining nets me about 100+ Tritium an hour. I also do a bit of surface mining cause I try to conserve my sub surface ammo.

Ammo pretty much runs out before the hour is up. Tells you how much I suck at shooting that thing.

I’m pretty much 3/4 of the way to SagA* with my carrier. Taking my own sweet time. Currently mining Tritium to fill up the tank again.

Fit a second SSDM, when you run out of ammo on one just turn it off and activate the second. both of the mining ships a Python and a Cutter that I use for Tritium mining carry 2 2B SSDM's, I do also Laser for Tritium.

I also keep all of my mats set to collect, the limpets will ignore anything that the bin is full, Tungsten is a rarity but it can occasionally be found in some icy rings and you can synthesise SSDM ammo if you have the mats.

 

[cheesenbiscuits]

In my experience you can't stay out exploring, you have to return to the bubble and buy it.
Mining it didn't produce the fabled 100 t/hr and even if it did it's still orders of magnitude too low.

 

[efoo]

With me, sub surface mining nets me about 100+ Tritium an hour. I also do a bit of surface mining cause I try to conserve my sub surface ammo.

Ammo pretty much runs out before the hour is up. Tells you how much I suck at shooting that thing.

I’m pretty much 3/4 of the way to SagA* with my carrier. Taking my own sweet time. Currently mining Tritium to fill up the tank again.

100 tritium per hour mining is still too slow. 100 tritium is equivalent to just one FC jump of 500Ly. I like the yield to be 3 to 5 times faster for it to be viable when out deep space exploring.

 

[K Olley]

100 tritium per hour mining is still too slow. 100 tritium is equivalent to just one FC jump of 500Ly. I like the yield to be 3 to 5 times faster for it to be viable when out deep space exploring.

The only way that is going to happen is if they increase the yield of the rocks

 

[K Olley]

In my experience you can't stay out exploring, you have to return to the bubble and buy it.
Mining it didn't produce the fabled 100 t/hr and even if it did it's still orders of magnitude too low.

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