Go have a look at double hotspot painite mining. You can fill your ship with painite in anywhere from ~10 minutes (for 32 tons) to ~4 hours (for 512 tons) using your choice of mining lasers or core mining. No need to dedicate a whole week to unlock an engineer.Ok, thanks. That'll take a load off since I can't dedicate a week to mining for this.
Thanks. Was checking out a few youtube's about painite mining, found an excellent double painite location and bookmarked it. Will be doing some power play stuff for a day or two and then go there and mine mine mine.Go have a look at double hotspot painite mining. You can fill your ship with painite in anywhere from ~10 minutes (for 32 tons) to ~4 hours (for 512 tons) using your choice of mining lasers or core mining. No need to dedicate a whole week to unlock an engineer.
http://edtools.ddns.net/miner lists double painite hotspots by distance from your current location, along with the most profitable stations to sell it at.