Platinum Hotspot has no platinum - missing information

[Northpin]

It is still the choice of the FC operator to do as they wish, isn't it?

Perhaps they are playing the game "wrong" according to some others, so what?

A bad idea is a bad idea, no matter their entitlement to play however they want and mine whatever they want to mine at whatever distance from the bubble
So i never said they're are playing the game wrong... just that's a bad idea.
Pretty much like it's a bad idea to fly without rebuy. That also has nothing to do with playing the game right or left

Do's and Do nots have nothing to do with playing the game wrong.

 

[Cooladinho]

It just sounds like the OP is new to mining.

@Cooladinho Bookmark this page metals and minerals It gives details on what can be found in each type of ring. The second page (engineering tab on bottom of page) gives details of raw materials and where to find them.

Thanks for publishing the "metals and materials" page. I have bookmarked it and gave you a thumb up for that.

 

[K Olley]

Thanks for publishing the "metals and materials" page. I have bookmarked it and gave you a thumb up for that.

Its a page that has been posted on this forum a number of times, I do not know who owns or maintains it but I still find it useful so I keep it bookmarked.

 

[Cooladinho]

no. I also was eager to laser mine painite in the pristine metal rich rings of lawd 26 a long time ago and it also took a good hour until I noticed that there might be none

And I like the idea of deep space mining or finding your own special mining location rather than just mindlessly go to the most efficient grind locations. Not everyone wants to max out all the time

The whole point is, that you can surface mine tons of platinum in one metal having ring and then none in another metal having ring. "none" platinum in a "platinum hotspot". Not even "one ton" and there is no information why.

But thanks that you are the same like me, finding your own asteroid rings, just to have fun finding your own special mining location rather than just mindlessly go to the most efficient grind locations. Not everyone wants to max out all the time

 

[Viridian-]

Came across this old post after trying to find out what I'm doing wrong. I've been to a dozen platinum hotspots in the Eagle Nebula. No platinum anywhere. At first, after seeing this post, I thought it was because I was looking at both metallic and metal rich rings and then I switched to just metallic rings. At each place I used 20-30 prospectors and haven't found a single bit of platinum, even in rings with no hot spots. I've been to at least 30 over the last couple days and I'm giving up on my idea of helping out the run down factions way out here with platinum mining. I think platinum mining outside the bubble is somehow bugged. Maybe it's some obscure game mechanic. I dunno.

 

[Chaparral]

I agree with the OP. A labeled hotspot should have some measurable yield of the indicated quantity.

It is a bit silly that you have to use https://edtools.cc/miner

to find reasonable returns for mining locations.

Seems like a ton of wasted tags in the game just to keep folks from earning meaningless credits.

 

[gooddoc]

Came across this old post after trying to find out what I'm doing wrong. I've been to a dozen platinum hotspots in the Eagle Nebula. No platinum anywhere. At first, after seeing this post, I thought it was because I was looking at both metallic and metal rich rings and then I switched to just metallic rings. At each place I used 20-30 prospectors and haven't found a single bit of platinum, even in rings with no hot spots. I've been to at least 30 over the last couple days and I'm giving up on my idea of helping out the run down factions way out here with platinum mining. I think platinum mining outside the bubble is somehow bugged. Maybe it's some obscure game mechanic. I dunno.

Wow!
That's hard to believe......are you sure you've not scanned a Metal Rich ring by mistake or you've missed the hotspot altogether.

I'm currently out in the Sanguineous Sector of the Galaxy on my return trip from Xibalba.
Couple of things of note:-

In order to fund my Carrier's next trip into the black, I'll always check out EVERY Metallic Ring I come across......just Metallic Rings!
Scanning these Rings I'm looking for Platinum hotspots only, no hotspot I move on!
If I find a hotspot, I'll jump my Carrier into the System & park it next to the Planet, dock my Explorer Ship & swap for my Mining Cutter.
Then I target the hotspot & aim for an area that's between 70-100km from the centre of the hotspot, when I'v dropped from SC.
Then it's fill yer boots............It's never failed & it's rare that I don't get two 'roids from three prospects that don't contain Platinum or Osmium which I also collect.
Everything else is left.....unless I hit a Core 'roid, that gets blown & mined,

Don't like telling player's they're doing something wrong!.........but if you go to a Platinum Hotspot in a Metallic Ring & can't find a 'roid containing Platinum, then......

Just a thought......you're not just Core Mining are you cmdr? 'cos laser mining is what gets me my Platinum.

 

[Viridian-]

Wow!
That's hard to believe......are you sure you've not scanned a Metal Rich ring by mistake or you've missed the hotspot altogether.

I'm currently out in the Sanguineous Sector of the Galaxy on my return trip from Xibalba.
Couple of things of note:-

In order to fund my Carrier's next trip into the black, I'll always check out EVERY Metallic Ring I come across......just Metallic Rings!
Scanning these Rings I'm looking for Platinum hotspots only, no hotspot I move on!
If I find a hotspot, I'll jump my Carrier into the System & park it next to the Planet, dock my Explorer Ship & swap for my Mining Cutter.
Then I target the hotspot & aim for an area that's between 70-100km from the centre of the hotspot, when I'v dropped from SC.
Then it's fill yer boots............It's never failed & it's rare that I don't get two 'roids from three prospects that don't contain Platinum or Osmium which I also collect.
Everything else is left.....unless I hit a Core 'roid, that gets blown & mined,

Don't like telling player's they're doing something wrong!.........but if you go to a Platinum Hotspot in a Metallic Ring & can't find a 'roid containing Platinum, then......

Just a thought......you're not just Core Mining are you cmdr? 'cos laser mining is what gets me my Platinum.

I was doing laser mining. It could be the area I was in. I wanted to influence the factions in the Eagle Nebula to see if I can get it to expand and make a profit while I was doing it. I started going a bit nuts. I must have visited at least a hundred systems looking for rings. The ones that had hot spots, I stopped at. I ended up doing some osmium mining missions while looking for platinum. Probably fired at least 300 prospectors and never saw any platinum at all. I tried dead center of the hot spot, off center, and even outside of it. Even if there is no hot spot, I should have at least seen a bit of platinum somewhere, but there was none. Not a trace anywhere I visited within a couple hundred light years. Now I'm back in the bubble. Gonna go to the spot at Omicron Capricorni B just to make sure I'm not insane and platinum still exists in the game.

 

[Northpin]

I also find it very hard to believe.
And i never had any issues finding platinum for laser mining in platinum hotspots in metallic rings.

 

[Viridian-]

I also find it very hard to believe.
And i never had any issues finding platinum for laser mining in platinum hotspots in metallic rings.

Try mining in the Eagle Nebula yourself

 

[Jack Winter]

Doesn't really fit the information given, but you haven't by any chance excluded platinum in the target list?

 

[Dragsham]

Was gonner say the same thing...inadvertently blocked plat?

 

[Northpin]

Try mining in the Eagle Nebula yourself

That's big.
Why dont you provide the system name, planet name and ring name?
The one you fired 300 prospectors without finding platinum

Invariably when someone did that, it was proved they were looking for platinum in metal rich rings.
However, i'm not excluding a bug, but the chances for a such bug are really really slim

 

[Northpin]

Doesn't really fit the information given, but you haven't by any chance excluded platinum in the target list?

Was gonner say the same thing...inadvertently blocked plat?

Even if you do that, an asteroid hit by a prospector should list the content, platinum included.
The exclusion list from the contact panel will prevent limpets picking platinum and the refinery will ignore whatever platinum % the fragments may contain in addition to the other material they were picked for.

 

[Jack Winter]

Even if you do that, an asteroid hit by a prospector should list the content, platinum included.
The exclusion list from the contact panel will prevent limpets picking platinum and the refinery will ignore whatever platinum % the fragments may contain in addition to the other material they were picked for.

Yes I know, that's why I said it doesn't really fit the information given, but you never know for sure on the forum though..

 

[Viridian-]

That's big.
Why dont you provide the system name, planet name and ring name?
The one you fired 300 prospectors without finding platinum

Invariably when someone did that, it was proved they were looking for platinum in metal rich rings.
However, i'm not excluding a bug, but the chances for a such bug are really really slim

As I said in the first post, I did make the mistake of going to metal rich rings at first, then switched to metallic rings only. It had been a long time since I did any mining and I forgot. I went to a lot of systems. I didn't fire 300 or so prospectors in the same ring. I ended up mining osmium for the local faction at Eagle Sector IR-W d1-105 A 2 I should have seen some platinum there.

 

[Northpin]

As I said in the first post, I did make the mistake of going to metal rich rings at first, then switched to metallic rings only. It had been a long time since I did any mining and I forgot. I went to a lot of systems. I didn't fire 300 or so prospectors in the same ring. I ended up mining osmium for the local faction at Eagle Sector IR-W d1-105 A 2 I should have seen some platinum there.

So to conclude: there is nothing wrong laser mining platinum in a hotspot in metallic rings, right?
Or you still claim that mining platinum in hotspots in metallic rings is not working because there is no platinum there?

Now about the yields, not all rings are the same. Some are better, some are worse.
And since you did mention Omicron Capricorni B, be advised it's rather average

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/lbeff7

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/lbeff7/psa_hotspots_may_not_be_equal/

 

[gooddoc]

I was doing laser mining. It could be the area I was in. I wanted to influence the factions in the Eagle Nebula to see if I can get it to expand and make a profit while I was doing it. I started going a bit nuts. I must have visited at least a hundred systems looking for rings. The ones that had hot spots, I stopped at. I ended up doing some osmium mining missions while looking for platinum. Probably fired at least 300 prospectors and never saw any platinum at all. I tried dead center of the hot spot, off center, and even outside of it. Even if there is no hot spot, I should have at least seen a bit of platinum somewhere, but there was none. Not a trace anywhere I visited within a couple hundred light years. Now I'm back in the bubble. Gonna go to the spot at Omicron Capricorni B just to make sure I'm not insane and platinum still exists in the game.

In my current trip, Iv spent the best part of the last two play sessions in two Platinum Hotspots in two different Systems, recouping over 1000t of Platinum & 100t of Osmium.
Yes I agree finding Metallic Rings in the first place is the hard part, but once a Hotspot is found there's no looking back.

Just another point, is it that your limpets aren't bringing any Platinum back? - Platinum set to ignore on the ignore list.......just trying to picture why you're really doing the impossible here

Pity I'm too far away at the moment.....I'd love to visit a Ring that you're struggling with to test it myself.

 

[Viridian-]

So to conclude: there is nothing wrong laser mining platinum in a hotspot in metallic rings, right?
Or you still claim that mining platinum in hotspots in metallic rings is not working because there is no platinum there?

Now about the yields, not all rings are the same. Some are better, some are worse.
And since you did mention Omicron Capricorni B, be advised it's rather average

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/lbeff7

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/lbeff7/psa_hotspots_may_not_be_equal/

I'm concluding that either the region was bugged or my commander was bugged in some way. You seem to be assuming everything I've said has been hyperbole. I visited a metallic ring with common reserves just now at BD-02 5286 and while I didn't find a lot of platinum, I still found some very quickly. Eagle Sector IR-W d1-105 A 2, where I ended up mining osmium out there has a single metallic ring with pristine reserves where I didn't see any platinum at all, hence my confusion. After reading what everyone has said, I don't think all platinum mining outside the bubble is bugged. It's obvious that it's not. It has to be a bug with me or that place. That sector does feature a pretty crazy map glitch that peaked my interest in the first place. I'll probably be exploring around there again eventually. My T9 is still at the nearest shipyard to it, only 1300ly away, I might drag it over there.

 

[GraphiteGB]

Show a picture with the ring being displayed ring A in ship and the system map showing ring a as metallic and that will end it the topic...
Try to take a picture and it shows ring B in the bottom and ring B in system map that will end the topic as metallic rings have never shown up as ring B... so its a bug
It would be the very first ring B that is metallic...
Rings are seperated by black empty bands if you cross them you will change ring class and kind...

Omicron Capricorni B. ring A is infamous for miners Not crossing into ring A and remaining in ring B it only until forced to take a photo on elite miners that they bother to see its ring B they were in all this time...
Rings are not the same size... they change distance from planet in size all the time...