Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great bounty hunting opportunity!
The Mining discussion thread.
Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great bounty hunting opportunity!
Seems to be luck of the draw. First one i checked out big fat bounties everywhere. Second one just a lonely Lakon and that was it!
Mining Not Profitable?
Really? Then you're doing it wrong.
550K for a little over an hour and a half. I could have filled my hold with a bunch of less profitable stuff within 1/2 hour if I wasn't being picky.
Know your belts.
Pristine Metallic planetary belts are where the cool kids go.
And no, I'm not telling you where I am.
Really? Then you're doing it wrong.
550K for a little over an hour and a half. I could have filled my hold with a bunch of less profitable stuff within 1/2 hour if I wasn't being picky.
Know your belts.
Pristine Metallic planetary belts are where the cool kids go.
And no, I'm not telling you where I am.
Mining , Trading etc now so nerfed its not worth it
I've stopped playing trading Elite until the prices hopefully improve.
Consider this, I have a Type 6 that now only earns $144000 an hour playing non-stop.
To get a Type 7 I would have to trade nonstop 6 hours a day for THREE WEEKS if the prices stay the same, which they wont.
Then my new Type 7 would only hold a few tons more than my previous ride.
Mining is nerfed too it now only pays 3-5% per scoop meaning 20-30 "scoops' to make a ton of something that is only worth a few thousand credits takes forever and mining is so boring.
Contracts on the Bulletin board pay peanuts too and most require you to sell your cargo ship and buy a fighter.
Right now a Type9 will take you over 6 hours a day nonstop play for OVER a year and a half!!
Somebody made a mistake and now the incentive to play is gone.
I've stopped playing trading Elite until the prices hopefully improve.
Consider this, I have a Type 6 that now only earns $144000 an hour playing non-stop.
To get a Type 7 I would have to trade nonstop 6 hours a day for THREE WEEKS if the prices stay the same, which they wont.
Then my new Type 7 would only hold a few tons more than my previous ride.
Mining is nerfed too it now only pays 3-5% per scoop meaning 20-30 "scoops' to make a ton of something that is only worth a few thousand credits takes forever and mining is so boring.
Contracts on the Bulletin board pay peanuts too and most require you to sell your cargo ship and buy a fighter.
Right now a Type9 will take you over 6 hours a day nonstop play for OVER a year and a half!!
Somebody made a mistake and now the incentive to play is gone.
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If you are only finding 2-3% chunks of ore you are mining in the wrong places. You can find places as high as 50%.
I guess I have not been lucky but after searching for hours you give up and want to do something more interesting.
Why would you have to search? Just go to a nice belt and ignore the others.
I did find one which looked very nice on my travels. Sarsha was the system name or something like that. A small corporate Imperial border system. Pristine ones are the best in terms of purity, and metallic ones give the most valuable resources, as far as I've heard.
Simple cargo hauling contracts can pay more than 100 000 Cr if you have good reputation with the faction and a ship that can take large loads (like the Type 6).
Trading isn't too bad at all. I just needed a few days of ''grinding'' with my Adder (18 tonnes of cargo space) to get to a Cobra III, and that was with the ''broken'' ''unplayable'' trading.
You're right, it's not a race, its a Grind.
I'm only competing with myself I don't care what other ppl have I just see trading runs now reduced to 20% of what they were which means a year and a half to buy the ship I want.
Is there something wrong with wanting a ship but realising the grind to get it is just too uninteresting to endure?
Credits per hour? Playing 18 months for 6 hours a day? I didnt believe when they said, that accountants are no fun, but this post convinced me.
First of all, its not a race and the most expensive ship is not a goal of the game. Its like a car in a real life- whats the point of driving the most expensive model, when in order to do so you stop having fun? The minute you start counting your "profit per hour", youre done. The game becomes a job. You need to find fun in it, or leave.
I think the OP was spoiled by the test phase of beta/gamma (ok, except trading, that still needs some dev love). We were paid big bucks to test mechanics, now they are being balanced. AND the game is supposed to be slow paste. Imagine you get to buy all the ships (yes, you can own more than one, no need to sell cargo hauler to fly a fighter for some time) in 3 months. Then what? Its supposed to be slow, we were given the opportunity to progress fastre in the beta/gamma phase to test things.
First of all, its not a race and the most expensive ship is not a goal of the game. Its like a car in a real life- whats the point of driving the most expensive model, when in order to do so you stop having fun? The minute you start counting your "profit per hour", youre done. The game becomes a job. You need to find fun in it, or leave.
I think the OP was spoiled by the test phase of beta/gamma (ok, except trading, that still needs some dev love). We were paid big bucks to test mechanics, now they are being balanced. AND the game is supposed to be slow paste. Imagine you get to buy all the ships (yes, you can own more than one, no need to sell cargo hauler to fly a fighter for some time) in 3 months. Then what? Its supposed to be slow, we were given the opportunity to progress fastre in the beta/gamma phase to test things.
So, say that you get your Lakon 7, what then? Just grind to the end?
I suggest you do something more than just ''grind'' away. Do something interesting. Explore around. Visit places. Shoot stuff. Participate in conflicts or politics. Whatever.
It's such a self-defeating activity. If you don't enjoy working up to a Lakon 7, why do you think that you would enjoy trading afterwards?
There's nothing wrong with it, no, but many new players are going to realize it's going to take months or years and just bail at the thought of that much grind. It's not like the math is hard. You make this many credits per hour, you need this many credits, holy #&#!, I need to do this for how many hundreds of hours?!
It was bad when you could consistently find >=1000 CR profit-per-ton during Gamma 1. Now, with half that being "amazing", it's really quite daunting for a new player.
I know, personally, I wouldn't do it again (get the ship I want), at the current profit rates. I would just stop playing altogether.
I search because I don't know a way of finding mining stuff without looking for it, several hours and every particle I blasted off was some worthless mineral.
just bad luck I guess since you seem to find it so easy.
You can see the purity and type in the system view.
140k for a 1 system flight is about my average for a type 6 on normal trades..... so about 800k - 1mil an hour
or around 1.5mil on rares, with a lot of time sat around reading a book in-between waiting for stock.
bounty hunting in my cobra was netting around 200k an hour.. and is non-stop action..i've got 167k in empire bounties ive still not claimed from last session also
this *grind* people go on about is not something that i subscribe to...
you need to explore a lot to find the right spot - so theres a big hunk of searching out a good trade route or hunting spot, but isnt that the point of the game?
edit: the moment i get bored of trucking, i just hop in the cobra and hit the nearest anarchy system...
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Thanks, a helpful, constructive suggestion rather than just "You suck'.