Mining tritium question

[Darth Ender]

Currently in odyssey, i'm seeing trit hotspots acting very odd to me anyway.

The center of the hotspot has little tritium. And the tritium it has is low percentage.

But, if you go about 100km away from the center, you usually get a higher number of rocks with acceptable levels of tritium (18-25%).

But even then, i'm seeing roughly 1 limpet per ton overall.

it feels like it takes forever because you're just wasting so much time doing nothing trying to find a tritium roid with anything above 15% because most of the roids just have worthless commodities not worth carrying.

It's depressingly boring. Granted, if you're far enough away where you can't purchase tritium, it's your own fault. There is 0 reason to do that with a carrier ...there is nothing out in the black - it's 400 billion wastes of time and effort in the galaxy - entirely unused by Fdev for anything but saying that it's there ... so yea, the only one to blame when someone is moaning and groaning about mining out in the black is the person complaining for ignoring the reality of the game. But i hate the stupid infinite wealth and nonsensical safety of the bubble even more.


i'm not sure if tritium hot spots or any hotspots are working as designed, hard to tell what's buggy and what's intentional... But in any case, it's likely not going to change anytime soon. So just do yourself a favor and never take your carrier out where you wont reach another place you can purchase tritium or have good overlaps that may still improve yield (not sure anymore). There is absolutely no reason to ever take it out in the black . There is nothing to discover. Nothing to experience that you can't near populated systems.

 

[ocflyer]

Sure enough, you are right in all you say, I do 50 millions missions by dozens here in Colonia - BUT if you use more than a brain cell, and you do the math, you will realize how much he exagerate !
50 millions = BEST CASE you need at least 10 min ONLY to unload ! Attention, I not even say the mining time ! that is 300 millions / hour, the best case -but I do not count the mining time; If you just buy the ore in other place, then is no more 50 millions ( since you pay for ! ) but some 35 millions ! And is no more just 10 minutes !
From this realistic perspective, to exaggerate like a 5yo kid and say 1200 millions / h is a HUGE step, in the fiction domain already !
Are plenty of missions for Bernadite here in Colonia, 480-500-600 tones for 50 millions BUT you won't get more than 1 / station at the same time, very rare 2 - and sometimes are medium pads, so you need 2-3 runs just to unload ! -

AND if you choose to just buy the ore you do spend some 12 millions, so profit is in the range of 35-38 millions only, and you do a run in a bit more than 10 minutes !
So, by no means you will get 1,2 billions per hour, that's why I said is just fiction.

Even using the "wing trick" you must consider one can only share just 1 mission at a time, AND still some must do the "heavy lifting", right ?

Now, if you get a team of 5-10-20 fools who will all "gift" you with a fat mission shared, sure enough you can make even 1 trillion / h, but will be a lie to declare "YOU" make the credits, right ?
I make myself 1 or 1,4 billions / day but NOT per hour but yes in 3-4 hours, because I mix massacre missions in between, who render more than 50 millions / mission ( 41 millions mission reward and some 10-20 millions extra from bounty)... And is JUST ME - I do own 2 accounts but the second one is "sleeping" on bubble, so the credits I do are made by me and only me.
So, the story with 1,2 BILLIONS / HOUR is just a wet dream.


( ""My best run was 5B in 4 hours."")

This conversation sure turned toward the skeptically ridiculous. @DemiserofD, ignore @Homerzilla. Sounds like he is extremely jealous that I'm able to earn credits like this. I've been using this method for over two years and teaching/helping others do the same. Ignore him.

When I said I earned 5B in 4 hr, I wasn't exaggerating. I use a wing of 3 personal accounts, each which had 20 stacked missions which were 35M to 50M with one account doing the heavy lifting from my FC to the station (45 sec supercruise one-way). I mostly accept gold wing, silver wing, palladium and tritium missions but sometimes accept the low tonnage bertrandite missions that can be completed with in a single trip. One account pays the overhead cost of purchasing materials while the other two get a free ride. Since the missions are stacked by all 3 accounts, I'm able to share 3 missions at one time. Most of my missions are gold and silver. One cutter cargo hold can carry enough for 3.5 gold missions which amounts to 3.5 X 50M or 175M per load. Round trip from FC to station is around 2 min + mission completion time of 1 min + mission sharing time of 1 min.

Of course, my FC didn't get stocked by itself. That required time but I'm able to efficiently stock it with an unshielded cutter with 790t cargo hold and a stations that takes 2 min round trip. For 20 gold missions (avg 180t), I need 3600t. In 5 round trips (10 min), I can stock the FC with 3950t gold. For 20 silver missions (avg 380t), I need 7600t which takes 10 trips (20 min). Usually, I haul more than I need to allow me to accept additional missions as they pop up. This makes my time very efficient because I can stock the FC on one evening during the week before completing the missions on the weekend (my time is very limited). Use of the FC is an important efficiency factor because the mission giver station is 3500 LS from the star and the supply stations are in other systems. So, flying 3500LS takes a lot of time. Hopping my FC to the station drops supercruise time from 3.5 min round trip to 1.5 min round trip.

In the system I use, I was working it myself so it was easy to keep the system in balance (no factions at war/election or in expansion). I'm allied with major and all minor factions so I get good missions. The boards are usually identical between the three accounts, so when I see a mission on one board, it usually shows up on the other two. It isn't uncommon for me to get 6 gold missions (2 occurrences on 3 boards) in one hour. Mission collection time usually takes about 1 to 1.5 hr during the week since I work at home where I have 2 personal computers running the three accounts. It only takes me 30-45 sec every 15 min to check all 3 mission boards - total effort takes < 5 min/hr. If the system is balanced, I typically fill the stacks in all 3 accounts within 2 days.

One weekend I earned much more (~15B) but after two days of flying, I got burnt out and needed a break.

 

[Homerzilla]

"Sounds like he is extremely jealous that I'm able to earn credits like this."

 

[DemiserofD]

"Who cares which particular account has the credits?" so, moving credits from one pocket to other is now called "earning credits" .

Uh...no? Earning credits is called earning credits. And no matter how you try to twist it, the credits are being made, for a single player.

Sure, at a snap of your fingers - you do that what, in 2 minutes, right ?

It literally takes 30 seconds or less. Have you seriously never shared a mission before? It's extremely fast and convenient. A bit odd that someone who's played so much has never shared a mission before.

Switching between 4 accounts is now an instant operation, sure... takes almost no time, "literally

Yes...? I myself have three laptops I only use irregularly, plus two desktops I have immediate access to. Loading up four accounts is child's play.

Prove me wrong

I literally already have with simple arithmetic.

I don't see why you're so obsessed with this, frankly; there are loads of ways to make exorbitant amounts of cash in this game, and this is just one of them. On Finance Fridays alone we've been making in excess of a billion credits per hour, per player, for weeks now. Throwing in a few alts and getting a single shot per medusa is easy as pie and would give similar credit outputs for even less effort.

 

[Homerzilla]

Uh...no? Earning credits is called earning credits. And no matter how you try to twist it, the credits are being made, for a single player.



It literally takes 30 seconds or less. Have you seriously never shared a mission before? It's extremely fast and convenient. A bit odd that someone who's played so much has never shared a mission before.




Yes...? I myself have three laptops I only use irregularly, plus two desktops I have immediate access to. Loading up four accounts is child's play.



I literally already have with simple arithmetic.

I don't see why you're so obsessed with this, frankly; there are loads of ways to make exorbitant amounts of cash in this game, and this is just one of them. On Finance Fridays alone we've been making in excess of a billion credits per hour, per player, for weeks now. Throwing in a few alts and getting a single shot per medusa is easy as pie and would give similar credit outputs for even less effort.

You keep going on this dude ? Afraid to post a screenshot with your "record" earnings ?!
Why I am not surprised....

 

[DemiserofD]

You keep going on this dude ? Afraid to post a screenshot with your "record" earnings ?!
Why I am not surprised....

Because I'm not the one that did it?

I'm just doing simple math to show it's absolutely possible.

Seriously, I'm perplexed you've chosen this hill to die on. Is it really so infuriating that someone makes money faster than you?

If you want to see our income from Finance Fridays however, feel free to stop by Emulated Penguin's stream anytime, though. Easy enough to see there. Not like we keep it hidden. Heck, join if you like!