Please add a mechanic or module somehow to make finding cores way easier
- Thread starter Washinout
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To be perfectly honest, I never had trouble finding cores. I mean, yeah, it's not obvious right away if an asteroid has a core or not, depending on the glow, but the bigger ones that are brightly glowing usually have one. It's a bit hit or miss, but not in a capacity that I would be frustrated. And I earned my fleet carrier with core mining back than. I cracked a lot of them.
That said, the fact that graphics settings (screen resolution?) alters the wave scanner visuals, kinda blurs any definite statement about how an exploderoid should look.
But instead of introducing a new indicator I would suggest going in the other direction:
There's a few asteroids, usually the small ones (you know the one), that glow really, really bright, but are never crackable. Reducing the number of those "false positives" would be great.
As far as I know, the glow represents how much good stuff is in an asteroid, and I guess, the smaller the stone, the greater the weight of it's contents on the wave scanner results. No clue. But reducing the glow on these would mean, that the bright ones are more likely to have cores.
That said, the fact that graphics settings (screen resolution?) alters the wave scanner visuals, kinda blurs any definite statement about how an exploderoid should look.
But instead of introducing a new indicator I would suggest going in the other direction:
There's a few asteroids, usually the small ones (you know the one), that glow really, really bright, but are never crackable. Reducing the number of those "false positives" would be great.
As far as I know, the glow represents how much good stuff is in an asteroid, and I guess, the smaller the stone, the greater the weight of it's contents on the wave scanner results. No clue. But reducing the glow on these would mean, that the bright ones are more likely to have cores.
I assume this is still accurate, I have not gone core-hunting for a while but in truth, the shape is the key:
Icy ring - "popcorn":
Metallic ring - "cone":
Icy ring - "popcorn":
Metallic ring - "cone":
i know shape is the key its not my first time doing core yet this doesnt make things easier especially for someone who has no visual memory, lots of asteroids no matter the type resembles core to me
there should be an easier way than having proper graphics settings or memorizing every nook and cranny of a rock
an easier way like an upgrade or better module that just properly highlights cores in a distinct color rather than a shade of yellow lol
I tell myself that the metallic ring one is "Python".
Nice avatar you've got there.
Yeah.. there's always the suspicion that the asteroid generating algorithm checks you loadout and then spawns the asteroids you can't mine with your current loadout...Last time I was out mining I didn't find anything else but cores... I was looking for lasermining targets actually.
of course - in this case, mapped mining wouldn't work at all.
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i dont understand Elite communitys love of inconvenience
No core mining isnt a bonus thing its a way of mining what the hell are you even talking about who the hell laser mines and goes like "oh look i randomly found a core let me blow this up and get some bonus ores"
Stop defending mechanics or "balances". I already give good solutions im okay to grind a little to unlock a modified version or a blueprint of pulse wave that shows cores better
I do that. I laser mine, but take cores when I find them. Subsurface deposits too if they're good stuff. Why is that mysterious?
If there would be another mining overhaul I would suggest a mechanic similar to the FSS.
So you are flying above the belt, send a pulse through it and enter the Spectrum Scanner. It works like the FSS but you filter for minerals, after tuning you can highlight asteroids containing the desired mineral. At this point it also shows you if it's a core asteroid.
So essentially what the existing Pulse Wave thingy is supposed to do... It shouldn't (can't due to instantiantion?) work in SC, and it should have a limited range. It also should have a limited usefulness - somewhere between the current PWA and using Prospector limpets, i.e.
- more range than the PWA
- "tagging" of useful looking 'roids (or regions/groups, see below?), to be in some way recognisable n the regular HUD
- detection accuracy decreasing with range (both for position and mineral content)
- maybe just show someting like "there's gold in them thare hills", i.e. there is something I scanned for in this specific area, with a resonable concentration. But it's still open which rock is actually holding the good stuff (that's up to PWA, prospectors or good old manual sampling) and whether that's laser, surface, subsurface or core content.
So, maybe:
- you are in SC. The DSS tells you what there is in that ring and, if applicable, any hot spots.
- you drop out of SC in/near a hotspot and fire up your mineral scanner. You're only interested in, say, Platinum group elements, so you set the spectrum to those and take a look around. The scanner tells you there's a low/mid/high concentration of the good stuff over there, 20 km distant. You tag that spot and leave the scanner.
- the tag shows up as a POI marker (which is already locked into your nav). You fly over to that point and fire up the PWA to light up the rocks around you, then start sampling the better candidates
Of course, if you operate within inhabited systems or maybe a couple of jumps over in a pristine ring, running the mineral scanner generates a distinct signature, and there are always a few people around who want to make a living off other people's efforts. So the longer you run the mineral scanner, the higher the risk of getting unwanted attention - both from NPCs or players. No, I don't know how to implement the latter, since it would have to include passing signls from an individual instance to SC - like, if you're running in SC, you can somehow see the rough location in a ring where someone (player or NPC miner) is operating a mineral scanner. You can then lock onto that signal and drop into the instance (perhaps like a wing beacon), with the precision increasing with the duration of the mineral scanner operation.
It is nothing to do with "getting a bonus" ... It is about playing a game in which for this activity you need to develop the skill to recognise one of two different shapes in those glowing yellow asteroids.
You don't need a new module or modification - you just need to use your eyes.
N.B. Of course it is a sub-set of a game and this sub-set has a horrible RNG aspect to it - but having a big red "WIN" button to just highlight all cores removes any skill or gaming aspect. However since FDEV have dumbed-down just about everything in the game already, maybe they will accede to this nonsense too.
I hate to fall into the "git gud" crowd but honestly, if you can't remember the shape you are looking for then I don't know how you manage the game at all.