Tips for mining in a cobra

Altissimus

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Hey,

So I just bought my first Cobra, upgraded from a Bounty-hunting Viper.

I don't really have the cash to kit it out as a top-class BH ship yet, but is mining cheaper?

Either way...any tips please for a mining noob on:

1) How to gear a cobra to make the best use of it - lasers? refinery? cargo capacity? I don't know?!

2) Where/how to find the best mining areas

3) General tips I should know please?

Thanks for your help Commanders!

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Azamo

Azamo
When I was mining in my Cobra my setup was:

Got my cargo bay to 44
Got a refinery with at least 3 bins.. but I upgraded to the 5 bin version after the first run. This saves time from having to flush the minerals out while mining
I went with 2 mining lasers but, 1 will do ... with 2 lasers it will cut faster but you will also run out of power on them. With 1 you will never run out of power
I kept the 2 stock lasers just in case
And I upgraded the power distribution and the shields for the doh moments and to run the bigger refinery and the 2 mining lasers

The system I did my mining in was Njikan when you get there go to Njikan 4 ... but of course this depends on where you started. I started in Aiabiko so I was not that far. There is a station in that sector that will buy everything you mine from the sector. The nice thing about the station in Nijikan is that it is a high tech station so it has lots of upgrades
 
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Altissimus

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Azamo said:
When I was mining in my Cobra my setup was:

Got my cargo bay to 44
Got a refinery with at least 3 bins.. but I upgraded to the 5 bin version after the first run. This saves time from having to flush the minerals out while mining
I went with 2 mining lasers but, 1 will do ... with 2 lasers it will cut faster but you will also run out of power on them. With 1 you will never run out of power
I kept the 2 stock lasers just in case
And I upgraded the power distribution and the shields for the doh moments and to run the bigger refinery and the 2 mining lasers

The system I did my mining in was Njikan when you get there go to Njikan 4 ... but of course this depends on where you started. I started in Aiabiko so I was not that far. There is a station in that sector that will buy everything you mine from the sector. The nice thing about the station in Nijikan is that it is a high tech station so it has lots of upgrades
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Thanks very much :)

What did you sacrifice to fit your ship? Did you still have any combat capability? Are there many pirates you need to worry about?
 

Azamo

Azamo
I of course kept the shields and I dumped the discovery scanner and upgrade all the stock cargo slots to their max. That's about it. I did run into a few people that wanted to help me unload my cargo... but I was able to take care of them. For the most part it was pretty quite. But I would not take off the lasers the come with the cobra... always good to have a way to defend yourself.

My Cobra cost about 650k upgraded. But you can start mining for about 400k and get the rest of the upgrades as you go along.
 
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I_am_Jon

I_am_Jon
I'm running:
- 32T (go mad trying to get more than this in one trip)
- 5 Bin C2 Refinary
- C2 mining Laser (faster than C1 and seems to produce more chunks)
- Lasers, shield cell, shields etc.. for fighting off the pirates.

Oh and you want to be looking for 'prestine metalic' asteroid fields.
 
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Suul Vellumcore

Suul Vellumcore
One thing I discovered: I've always gone to planetary rings to do my mining. I would opt to ignore the extraction zones and find a nice quiet piece of belt to do my mining in peace. In a major researves metallic belt, I was finding some palladium, platinum, gold and silver, but compared to the amount of gallite, indite and bertrandite, it was ususally pretty frustrating (and time consuming) trying to find quality rocks of the good stuff.
So last night, I went to an extraction zone to bounty hunt. During a lull, I decided to do a little mining. What I discovered is that those extractions sites are positioned where they are for a reason... lots of quality rock there! I also found that NPC miners are... well, dolts! A few times, flying near to a NPC mining, I'd see all his clumps floating about. Yes, I took them as he merrily mined away, because that's the way I roll :) Really, I simply cannot feel bad about it since they are NPCs. No repercussions so far. They also seem to zero in on the best rocks, and even if there are none of their clumps floating around, mining the rocks they're at is usually lucrative. I treat them as spotters, so to speak.

The only thing is you're ship must also be somewhat combat capable to fend off the occational pirate attack... unless you want to keep running away all the time, which is unproductive... not to mention lame :)

And yes, it's fairly easy to equip a cobra to be both fighter and mining vessel. My ship: x2 class 2 gimballed pulse; x1 class 1 fragment cannon; cheap mining laser; 4 bin refinery; 16 cargo space; nicely upgraded modules. Unless they're in a python or anaconda, attacking me while I mine is the last thing they ever do!
 

Rykos

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ive been mining/bounty hunting for the last few days its been great fun. my cobra has 2 class 2 gimballed multicannons 1 class 1 burst laser and 1 class 1 mining laser.
at one point i had pirates appearing one after another and made 100k from the bounty's.
the best rock ive found so far had 25-35% of both platinum and palladium

you can find a pristine metallic belt in Hip 6913 if u cant find one closer
 

Bokugo

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Suul Vellumcore said:
I also found that NPC miners are... well, dolts! A few times, flying near to a NPC mining, I'd see all his clumps floating about.
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Really? I just tried that about 2 hours ago and the NPC I was vulturing over would mine 1 piece then immediately go pick it up. I had no where near enough time to get it. I think he knew :T
 

ozlizard

ozlizard
I had wondered whether there were better pickings around the extraction points, but I stay away from them to avoid attacks.
I don't have any weapons on my Lakon 6 so I have to run. I am mining at Njikan and there are good upgrades at Smeaton Port but I have never seen mining laser upgrades.
 
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