I'm currently trying to unlock Selene Jean, and as you know, she requires a donation of 10 units of painite. "No big deal," I thought, so I equipped my Python with mining lasers, limpets, refinery, the lot, and searched for painite hotspots (using the known method of DSS-ing metallic or metal rich rings).
Problem: I've searched probably more than a dozen separate hotspots, and prospected/lasered HUNDREDS of asteroids, some of which were 100+ LY outside the bubble. And I have not seen ONE. SINGLE. SOLITARY. SCRAP of painite. No, I'm not saying I'm not finding "profitable" zones, or asteroids with over 30% painite, or whatever--I mean I have seen literally ZERO painite. Not one fleck, not one of the hundreds of asteroids had even a drop of painite in them.
What am I doing wrong? All I need is the stupid 10 units for the Engineer, and I never have to do it again. I've tried to avoid the populated areas as much as possible. I haven't found any overlapping painite hotspots, but is that really necessary to find ANY painite at all?
Problem: I've searched probably more than a dozen separate hotspots, and prospected/lasered HUNDREDS of asteroids, some of which were 100+ LY outside the bubble. And I have not seen ONE. SINGLE. SOLITARY. SCRAP of painite. No, I'm not saying I'm not finding "profitable" zones, or asteroids with over 30% painite, or whatever--I mean I have seen literally ZERO painite. Not one fleck, not one of the hundreds of asteroids had even a drop of painite in them.
What am I doing wrong? All I need is the stupid 10 units for the Engineer, and I never have to do it again. I've tried to avoid the populated areas as much as possible. I haven't found any overlapping painite hotspots, but is that really necessary to find ANY painite at all?