I searched for pristine metallic on eddb and went to the system. Found the painite hotspot. I shot off 40 prospectors and got ZERO painite! This is so dumb. I just need 10 frickin units to unlock an engineer. How the hell do I hit 40 diff rocks and there were literally two with minerals and they were coltan and uranite.
No Painite in Painite hotspot?
- Thread starter CmdrLordValcar
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Damn well i dont see a res in my system much less one in a painite hotspot. (sigh) I just want to do sum frickin engineering. Not this soul crushing mining!
Did you find the right hotspot, a lot of the time you will find a metallic A ring and a Metal rich B ring, both will have Painite hotspots but only the Metallic ring will have laser minable Painite.
When you Probe a ring move your aiming point slowly away from the planet and as soon as it says ring fire a probe then watch which part of the ring light up when the probe lands, it should be a narrow band nearest to the planet. Sometimes even in a pristine system a ring will have no hotspots but even so you should still be able to find a limited amount of Painite in it.
When you Probe a ring move your aiming point slowly away from the planet and as soon as it says ring fire a probe then watch which part of the ring light up when the probe lands, it should be a narrow band nearest to the planet. Sometimes even in a pristine system a ring will have no hotspots but even so you should still be able to find a limited amount of Painite in it.
You don't need a hotspot for laser mining painite. Just drop into the right pristine metallic, and shoot rocks.
Unfortunately there is no indication in game that touches on this, not too mention the many many obsolete youtube guides.
PaInite should be in hotspots and is not.
Broken mining mini game continues to disappoint.
I don't disagree. My post however was to the OP, and was brief to make it clear what the situation was, that I was trying to explain. Plus, following YouTube guides is not a very successful way to learn these things considering how the game environment has changed this year. Hence why I tried to give a short and useful piece of advice and help.
I finally found some and managed to get the 10 I needed. Mining sucks!
Post the system you were in, the one you got from eddb, along with the planet number.
I can tell you that the general statement 'there is no painite in painite hotspots' is unmitigated balls because prompted by yet another one of these threads, I've just checked the closest painite hotspot I know to the system I was parked in and amazingly enough, I found painite in 7 of the first 10 rocks I prospected, so lets have a look at the actual system and actual planet you're talking about and see if it's a localised issue or something else.
I'm assuming here you don't expect every single rock in a painite hotspot to have painite by the way? Although it averages out at probably around 1 in 3 at worst.
Edit - glad you found some eventually, I'd still like the system and planet though for testing purposes.
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LHS 2661 6 A ring. Which btw there was no ring around 6 A but there was around 6 and thats where I went and found one painite hot spot.
For future reference dude, the A refers to the inner ring. The outer ring will be the B ring. They have different compositions, so you have to get into the right ring before prospecting.
It's possible that this is why you couldn't get any first time around - you may have missed the A and ended up in the B (cheeky ooooh matron meme required), but glad you found some now mate.
Wasn't having a go, it's just how the game has evolved.
It's tough for new players and I got caught out myself with it, lol.
Three evening sessions multiple systems and rings and no Painite found via laser or core mining with over 200 prospectors launched!
It's happening to a lot of people despite your experience.
Well it was the only painite hotspot that came up in that ring
No worries, and none of it is explained for new players, I remember it myself from way back - certainly something they haven't improved!
I'm not doubting that, but I think you're missing the point I'm trying to make. The rings around gas giants are sometimes separated into A, B, C rings etc, as concentric circles, with the A being nearest the planet.
Normally the rings have different make-ups, so the metallic is normally the inner A ring, but it's possible for the B ring to have the right make-up to have painite hotspots (rocky?).
So what I was suggesting is that it's possible you dropped into the hotspot part of one instead of the other. Does that make sense?
I'm not trying to argue against what you have found, I was just trying to explain that the rings are labelled A B etc as well as moons, as you said you couldn't find the 6 A planet so went to 6 instead. The way to differentiate is this - rings are listed as capital letters, and moons as lowercase. Does that explain it better?
If you had a fourth moon on planet 6, that also had a ring you could mine, it would be System-Name planet 6 d A.
It makes sense just a little confusing.
OK so post the systems and the planet like I asked. Any or all of them.
Understand here, I'm not asking so I can say 'lol you're wrong' or whatever, I don't need to get my validation in life like that. If I check them and I can fire a couple of hundred prospectors without finding any painite rocks I'll be the first to add my name to the bug report which is presumably filed already - it's just that at the moment you're describing something outside my direct experience and since when it comes to mining that's five year's worth (i.e. before hotspots even existed and years before mining became the meta moneymaker that it is today) it's something that I want to have a look at.
I'm also puzzled by the reference to eddb in OP's post to be honest because eddb doesn't show hotspots to start with. It will find systems with pristine metallics but that's all. As Bottom Hat has mentioned it can be a bit more complex than that, in that if you're looking for your own hotspots in the ring, you need to be sure that you're looking at the metallic part of the ring, which is usually the inner ring if the planet has two.
You can find painite hotspots in metallic rings and also in metal rich rings. The difference between them is that only painite hotspots in metallic rings will have painite that can be laser mined. Painite hotspots in metal-rich rings do contain painite too but it's only cores which can be mined using seismic charges, you will never find painite that can be laser mined in a metal rich ring.
Planets often have two orbiting rings, an inner ring (shown as the 'A' ring in the system map) and an outer ring shown as the 'B' ring. The inner 'A' ring will almost always be the metallic one, with the outer ring being metal-rich, rocky or whatever. If a painite hotspot is in the outer ring (i.e. not the metrallic one) and you want to laser mine, it's of no use to you.
My suspicion is that OP (and maybe you) found a pristine metallic ring in eddb, scanned the planet and found a painite hotspot but not noticed that it's in the outer non-metallic part of the ring and therefore does contain painite, but not painite that you can laser mine. I might be wrong but it would explain everything you've seen without the game being fundamentally broken, which as I say just doesn't tie up with my own experience up to and including today.
Oh and firing prospectors looking for cores, yeah I can easily believe that you fired 200 prospectors without finding any because without using the pulse wave scanner to narrow down your targets, I'd be quite happy with a 1 in 200 hit rate for finding cores - I've flown the best part of 10km between cores before now using the pulse wave scanner (back before it was broken and then fixed) they're very rare and you could easily hit 200 rocks in those sort of distances without finding a core if you were scanning all of them by just firing prospectors at them randomly. Core mining bores the pants off me because although blowing stuff up is fun, flying around looking at pointless rocks for 10 minutes whilst pressing a button is less fun.
Either way, link me one or more of the systems and planets when you get a minute so I can have a look. Cheers
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