Regular mining hotspots fixed yet?

Are we now able to find cores with the correct mineral in them (i.e. VO cores in VO hotspots?) I haven't seen a single one since the egg nerf. Lots of cores, just none with VO in them. In VO hotspots.

Hotspots are about as hot as a mild salsa dip after its been frozen. (for cores) so even in a hotspot cores can be full of methlate clagnuts, and depending where you are you can be handed the RNG back handed slap and find nothing but clagnuts.

better off laser mining, its like the whole mining update last year was a huge waste of time they shouldn't have bothered with.

Meanwhile at FDev HQ

🎶 I came in like a wrecking ball....🎶

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2 more cores, another LTD and an Alexandrite (from a VO hotspot). This is pure crap.

Guys, I dont know were you're core mining, but I confirmed this after the egg nerf and I confirm it today. There are no VOs in VO hotspots.

I feel confident in saying that are no cores of the appropriate type in any hotspot. The last VO core I saw was just after the egg nerf and it was in a LTD hotspot.

There is definitely something wrong.

S'funny, that's always been my experience of DC mining.

I go to an alleged VO hotspot and I find DC 'roids about as often as I "should" (one every 10 to 15 minutes) but 3 out of 4 are something garbage and, thus, I'm only finding 1 or 2 VO DC 'roids per hour.

That's why I prefer laser-mining.
Some might say it's "laborious" but I prefer to describe it as "relaxing".
In either case, at least you're spending most of your time doing what you expect to be doing; mining with lasers.
For me, DC mining has always consisted of spending most of my time stunt-flying through rings with the PWA button taped down until I see the fabled glowly 'roid, only to find it's garbage.

But, erm, yeah.
If it's even worse than it was, I won't be giving it another go any time soon. 😕
 
S'funny, that's always been my experience of DC mining.

I go to an alleged VO hotspot and I find DC 'roids about as often as I "should" (one every 10 to 15 minutes) but 3 out of 4 are something garbage and, thus, I'm only finding 1 or 2 VO DC 'roids per hour.

That's why I prefer laser-mining.
Some might say it's "laborious" but I prefer to describe it as "relaxing".
In either case, at least you're spending most of your time doing what you expect to be doing; mining with lasers.
For me, DC mining has always consisted of spending most of my time stunt-flying through rings with the PWA button taped down until I see the fabled glowly 'roid, only to find it's garbage.

But, erm, yeah.
If it's even worse than it was, I won't be giving it another go any time soon. 😕

hot spots should be hotspots... all cores should be whats in the hotspot, not garbage clagnuts no-one wants!

as it stands may aswell delete core mining from the game and forget that update even happened because its just RNG horse crap

hi-ho hi-ho its off laser mining we go....
 
hot spots should be hotspots... all cores should be whats in the hotspot, not garbage clagnuts no-one wants!

as it stands may aswell delete core mining from the game and forget that update even happened because its just RNG horse crap

Well, that's the thing, innit?

I mean, I guess it all depends on whether you've done enough to appease RNGesus but if an area is classified as, say, a Void Opal hotspot, you expect that it'll be glaringly obvious that VO's are the most common thing you'll find in DC 'roids.
When you're in a VO hotspot and 75% of the DC 'roids you find are, say, Bauxite then surely it should BE a "Bauxite Hotspot" and not a "Void Opal Hotspot"?

Or, is this just ED's way of telling me that I'm just really, really unlucky and everybody else IS usually finding VO's in VO Hotspots? 🤷‍♂️
 
Well, that's the thing, innit?

I mean, I guess it all depends on whether you've done enough to appease RNGesus but if an area is classified as, say, a Void Opal hotspot, you expect that it'll be glaringly obvious that VO's are the most common thing you'll find in DC 'roids.
When you're in a VO hotspot and 75% of the DC 'roids you find are, say, Bauxite then surely it should BE a "Bauxite Hotspot" and not a "Void Opal Hotspot"?

Or, is this just ED's way of telling me that I'm just really, really unlucky and everybody else IS usually finding VO's in VO Hotspots? 🤷‍♂️

I do agree with you, but with hotspots of the rarest minerals behaving like that, are they really that rare anymore? Not only are hotspots persistent and not that rare even for the rarest minerals, one can also go through the work of mapping asteroids to make their run much more efficient.
 
Are we now able to find cores with the correct mineral in them (i.e. VO cores in VO hotspots?) I haven't seen a single one since the egg nerf. Lots of cores, just none with VO in them. In VO hotspots.
Go to Amber system, there's a VO, LTD and Trit overlap hotpot. LOTS of VO and LTD Core asteroids. Last ringed in the system. Several other hotspots too, even another VO there. I am tripping over VO Cores and just passing by the LTD cores. I've been milking this same ring for over a month, whenever I need a few hundred million, I know right where to go, Amber A 8!
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I have been checking ALL of the different minerals coming from cores specifically.
Along the way also laser and sub-surface and something is off.
I could write a summary of all this with stats but I leave that to the numbers guys :)

Edit:

I caught myself writing longer then expected so the short story is:

The entire carreer of mining should be looked at and tweaked.
Offcourse layers have been added and great ones really so no complaints, but it's not quite there yet!
Sadly all of the focus has been on the credits and balancing the credits aka hotspot overlap stuff.
 
Well , today i mined around 3 hours in Arietis Sector XZ-P B 5-3 Planet 1 for Void Opals . I found 7 VO Cores , 3 Granditerit Cores and 1 LTD core . The amount of VO Cores is HALF of that what i could ususally find a few weeks before. I was able to fill my Python up easily and go sell within 2 hours. today i stopped at 106 VOs because i had enough..
THANKS FDEV ! FIX YOUR GAME!
 
Hotspots are broken in many places (probably not everywhere, though I have found several broken ones and there are 3-4 open tickets about it and several forum posts).

If it is a broken one, then you won't find any mineral the hotspot supposedly contains, absolutely none, zero - as if the percentage to spawn is negative.
 
Well , today i mined around 3 hours in Arietis Sector XZ-P B 5-3 Planet 1 for Void Opals . I found 7 VO Cores , 3 Granditerit Cores and 1 LTD core . The amount of VO Cores is HALF of that what i could ususally find a few weeks before. I was able to fill my Python up easily and go sell within 2 hours. today i stopped at 106 VOs because i had enough..
THANKS FDEV ! FIX YOUR GAME!
The amount in my little Golden spot as shrunk to near zero, or like 1 or 2 VO Core(s) an hour. Ridiculous! I am just not sure that's FDEV's doing OR, maybe it's just naturally degrading as I've mined it. I mean, that would make sense and not sure how the game is coded in the this respect, but you'd think that a "spot", based on player or general "Open" mining, would drain that spot over time. I've looked at new spots and had similar luck, even in a "Pristine" reserve or three, however, have not really setup VO mining in another spot yet, so can't say for sure. I did do a test, where I checked out numerous "Hot Spots" or even no Hot Spots, just random Icy ring, and found almost identical results, of low VO Cores. I don't think it's the PWA either, just FDEV changing the function from something like IF== 'HotSpot' (VO) then SET CNT(0.0001%), like they messed up and added a few extra zeros (the wrong side of the decimal place!) in the Core generator function. How hard could it possibly be to change it back?! I think this would "fix" the PWA by the way! However, my assumption is this did this deliberately and have no intention of "fixing" anything.
 
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My personal bane is Benitoite....
I'm darn lucky if 1 out of 4 Core Asteroids actually contains some Benitoite.

I generally support the notion that Hotspots should primarily at all times yield what they advertise.

Not even going into the issue of flying 150+ km in some Icy High-Value ore Hotspot - only to find 1 or 2 Bromellite Cores.
 
I couldn't realy believe it, but some Hotspots are still broken. I went to a Rhodplumsit Hotspot. After one hour searching and scanning dozens of Rocks I've found one with Serendibit. So there is definily something wrong with that spot. The day before I checked another Hotspot in the same Ring. So maybe all tthe spots of the given planet are malfunktioning
 
I found a VO hotspot, just a single, with two VO cores and a Grandidierite right next to the hotspot marker. One jump over, and I've got an LTD hotspot with four cores near the spot. Sure, they're not great for completely filling a hold but they're fairly close to home so it's no hassle to just nip out and grab 'em when I'm in the mood.
 
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