No Painite found in Hot Spot

Red Rocket

Red Rocket
Out in the black with my FC I thought I would do some Painite mining for fun and dropped into a Painite Hot spot, after 100 limpets fired at rocks, I found ZERO Painite. I went to the next Gas Giant that had a large Painite hot spot and fired off 85 limpets again found zero rocks with Painite.

The system is out in the black Thaile HW-V e2-7 B Gas Giants 11 & 12 with Metal Rich rings, both were single hot spots. Not sure what to think is this a bug or what, I just wanted to do some mining spent two hours for nothing.

Dropped into two other hot spots and found lots of stuff just nothing that the hot spot was supposed to have.
 

WB-24

WB-24
Yes havevseen the same thing. 5000Ly from the bubble. Zero Painite in the h.s. Oddly, drop into a Void Opal h.s. and there’s twice as much LTD In cores.
 

askavir

askavir
Found plenty of painite in a hotspot the NGC 7822 nebula an hour ago, but it was a metallic ring, not metal rich. Metallic rings were always best for painite and laser mining in general, but even in the other ring types, if it's a painite hotspot, then it should have painite in it.
 

Red Rocket

Red Rocket

Red Rocket

Red Rocket
[VR] Orodruin said:
Core mining.
Hotspots do not only affect laser mining.
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Again thanks for the info, I did some reading

from WIKI

Painite is a rare Mineral Commodity that can be obtained by mining metallic or metal-rich Planetary Ring Systems, or by salvaging cargo canisters from certain signal sources. Note that in metallic rings, Painite is only present on asteroid surfaces and must be mined with Mining Lasers, while in metal-rich rings, it is only present in deep core deposits and must be mined with Seismic Charge Launchers. Painite is extremely valuable and can usually be sold at a high price.

it all make sense now. three years playing this game and still learning new stuff :)
 

photomankc

photomankc
And that is still not correct. Cores of Painite are found in metallic rings. It’s just that surface mineable painite is also found in metallic at a rate that makes cores a bonus not really something you need to hunt for.

laser mining in a single metallic hotspot is so rich right now I’d not really be all that concerned about finding an overlapping double these days.
 

[VR] Orodruin

[VR] Orodruin
ocflyer said:
So, you may have dropped into a low probability section of the hot spot. See some of the youtube videos of mining in hotspots. Apparently, where you drop into the hotspot makes a difference.
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No. As long as you drop within around 70% of the hotspot radius, it does not matter much where you drop. The issue here has already been identified as the OP dropping into a metal rich ring rather than a metallic ring.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
askavir said:
Found plenty of painite in a hotspot the NGC 7822 nebula an hour ago, but it was a metallic ring, not metal rich. Metallic rings were always best for painite and laser mining in general, but even in the other ring types, if it's a painite hotspot, then it should have painite in it.
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yes this is how it should work, but this is Frontier we're talking about here so i wouldn't be surprised to find a painite hotspot in an ice ring to be honest.

Metallic rings will prove more fruitful for the OP, although sometimes you just need to relog the instance and voila Painite galore, or Painite no more... depending how the RNG is feeling, but start in Metallic.
 

[VR] Orodruin

[VR] Orodruin
Kenneth McGrew said:
yes this is how it should work, but this is Frontier we're talking about here so i wouldn't be surprised to find a painite hotspot in an ice ring to be honest.

Metallic rings will prove more fruitful for the OP, although sometimes you just need to relog the instance and voila Painite galore, or Painite no more... depending how the RNG is feeling, but start in Metallic.
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Relogging will not solve anything unless you have run into a bug. Asteroid contents, as the rest of the galaxy, are procedurally generated and will not change just because you relog.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
[VR] Orodruin said:
Relogging will not solve anything unless you have run into a bug. Asteroid contents, as the rest of the galaxy, are procedurally generated and will not change just because you relog.
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by Relog the instance i mean fly into SC and return to a different patch of asteroids within the same hotspot. some areas are barron, and yes they are predetermined as that's why mapping works.
 

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
Just went mining to test this and zero painite either in cores or on surface. An area should not be labelled a painite hotspot if there's no painite in it or at the very least frontier should be clear if there is a depletion mechanic or a hotspot within a hotspot. It's unnecessarily confusing.
 
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