So I don't want to add to the complaining - and that's great that you guys are finding diamonds but I'm not looking for that or want to mine for profit there's easier ways to make money in this game.
But what about Painite? I've gone to about 8 'Painite hot spots' now. Some a ways from populated systems, and have found only 1 core asteroid with 3 painite that could be mined (probably because I did a crap job on blowing it up). All I'm really trying to do is find 7 more painite and then I'm done with mining so are all the hotspots really just mined out or something? I know I'm doing something wrong so a hint would help because I find things labeled as hotspots with nothing hot to be pretty frustrating.
Here's how I do it - Find myself a nice quiet ring, scan it for LTD's/OPAL or Painite. Drop into the HOTSPOT.
Now here is the important part - I cruise above the ring whilst pinging the roids, I only head into the field once two criteria are met
1. The roid is the correct shape (only one type of asteroid has fissures) Each ring type has it's own unique roid (Goggle for screenshots)
2. The roid must be glowing bright yellow with red and black spots. When I say bright I mean
bright, you can't miss it when scanning from a distance.
I have been mining LTD's/Painite/OPAL over the past few days, averging 1 rock per 10 mins. Correct Yield will net you a lot of cash,
minimum 6 mill per roid.. But you don't care about that..
As far as setting the yield, it doesn't need to match the fissure: So if you are near optimum, you can place a low charge into a high fissure.