So I tried mining for the first time today and while I did enjoy it overall and it seems like a great new gameplay loop to explore my results were not so great and I would appreciate any comments for improving my outcome. First off, I watched a couple videos and then went to a pristine metallic belt and flew directly to a Benitoite hotspot but after over an hour of mining I never once came across an asteroid with any Benitoite....zero, zip, nada. I ended up with a lot of Bauxit and Haematite, some Indite, some Uraninite and Lepidolite, some Rutile and assorted other minerals but nothing of really high value. I was in a Python and had 128 cargo but had to end up ejecting about 30 limpets in the end to make more space and fill up the ship. After selling I ended up with a little over a million credits. Tbh it seemed not much return on the effort compared to about 30 min bounty hunting in a RES where I can make 4-5 million.
A few things I don't understand so if anyone could explain it would help. Is it normal to deplete the asteroids after only 5-10 seconds of hitting it with the mining lasers bc that's what I found and I believe among many low concentrated asteroids I found quite a few with medium concentrated but don't remember seeing any high concentrations. I tried only mining with elements over 20-30 percent content but I don't understand how doing surface mining you get notification that asteroid is depleted when the beams haven't even going around the asteroid a single time.
Also, I got messages like resources unallocated or fragment requires allocation but no idea what that means. I also got message refinery full a couple times but then it would keep working so I figure maybe it just lags like when collector limpets say no valid targets but the other limpets continue to deliver items but idk for sure.
One last thing, I see on videos where cmdrs exclude things by going into the menu but I do not see that option either in the panel on the left or going into the inventory. Is there something I'm missing or is this not allowed anymore bc the videos I watched were at least a few years old and I know some things have changed over time.
Anyhoo, it was fun and pretty chill but I don't see this being a major game play loop for me unless one is able to make significantly more return on the effort.
A few things I don't understand so if anyone could explain it would help. Is it normal to deplete the asteroids after only 5-10 seconds of hitting it with the mining lasers bc that's what I found and I believe among many low concentrated asteroids I found quite a few with medium concentrated but don't remember seeing any high concentrations. I tried only mining with elements over 20-30 percent content but I don't understand how doing surface mining you get notification that asteroid is depleted when the beams haven't even going around the asteroid a single time.
Also, I got messages like resources unallocated or fragment requires allocation but no idea what that means. I also got message refinery full a couple times but then it would keep working so I figure maybe it just lags like when collector limpets say no valid targets but the other limpets continue to deliver items but idk for sure.
One last thing, I see on videos where cmdrs exclude things by going into the menu but I do not see that option either in the panel on the left or going into the inventory. Is there something I'm missing or is this not allowed anymore bc the videos I watched were at least a few years old and I know some things have changed over time.
Anyhoo, it was fun and pretty chill but I don't see this being a major game play loop for me unless one is able to make significantly more return on the effort.
