Newcomer / Intro Noob core miner

Al4ric

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Hi,

Recently I tried core mining, but I must be doing something wrong. I watched a ton of videos on YT and read some threads here and on reddit. Than I found some icy ring planet near system with best void opal prices and level of resources: "pristine". I found void opal hotspot. Flied to the edge of it and started searching using pulse wave analyzer. First of all, asteroids that lighted in ANY way were very few. And because I did not learned yet proper shape or color I used prospector (A rated) on any bright enough that caught my attention. But none of them had any core at all. About after 40 minutes I found one with void opal core. I got lucky and got optimal yield charge with just to low fissuers (both fited with high charge). And got all the opals. But than I started looking for another one (only 12 tons from that one). After flying for another 40 minutes I have found nothing. So I gave up - as 18 mil credits for about 90 minutes of gameplay seems rather low.

What am I doing wrong? I saw very contradictory advices in some threads. Some were saying I should fly very carefully and look around, others suggested to fly as fast as possible. How to look for them and are there any hotspots better than others?
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
Core rocks have a specific model. Until you learn to recognize that you will not be a very effective core miner. Also, the last update may have changed the way the PWS works, it seems to be not showing them at distance. If that is true speeding past may not be good practice.

Side note: Have to laugh at 18 million for 90mins being poor for a noob. You shoulda been around at the start of the game. 😆
 

aRJay

aRJay
I would suggest starting carefully but when you get better at spotting the core rocks you can speed up, but speeding up is just for increasing how much work you can do in an hour.

I find they are most distinctive if I have the trigger locked so the Pulse Wave Scanner fires continuously and I have the night vision on, actual colours saturation’s etc will depend on your graphics hardware to some extent.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Right now, there seems to be a problem with the Pulse Wave scanner - I haven't tried myself, but it seems it's lighting up the rocks behind you.

Once/if that is fixed, your story sounds about right for a beginner. It'll take you a while to recognize the good rocks, no matter how many videos you watch - and even in a non-overlappingh hotspot, you're very much at the mercy of the RNG. If you're after quick money, laser mining for Painite currently seems to be the thing.

Edit: found the most recent mining complaints thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mining-after-new-update.554180/
 
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Para Handy

Para Handy
As @Ashnak says - there is an issue with PWS / core 'roids at the moment. It seems like core asteroids are spawned after you have traversed their location. So as you travel along, finding nothing, after a while flip over and go back the way you came and notice the now-present bright popcorn shapes of the core-bearing 'roids. :rolleyes:

It is darn weird and I feel sorry for new people trying to go 'splody-mining while this issue persists.
 

Al4ric

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Para Handy said:
As @Ashnak says - there is an issue with PWS / core 'roids at the moment. It seems like core asteroids are spawned after you have traversed their location. So as you travel along, finding nothing, after a while flip over and go back the way you came and notice the now-present bright popcorn shapes of the core-bearing 'roids. :rolleyes:

It is darn weird and I feel sorry for new people trying to go 'splody-mining while this issue persists.
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Thank you. That makes sense. I thought I was doing something wrong. I'll try that.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I've always found core mining fun but too few and far between, even before the PWS thing. If I remember correctly, VO cores were once a thing but continuous updates, nerf bat waving and general mining tomfoolery has made the whole thing rather frustrating.

IMHO

Cold, hard cash is painite lasering.

Notspots, out here in the black, though, are rarer than hens teeth.
 
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