Tritium hunting in the black in one pic...

[ferus]

This down here is my biggest problem with mining tritium in the black - to be actually able to find a hotspot.
There are very few tritium hotspots in icy rings but I get tons of VO, LTD, bromellite and everything else... everything except tritium

Am I just really unlucky or have the RNG gods forsaken me?

 

[Northpin]

i'd say unlucky
based on my experience in beta where i looked for hotspots in unpopulated systems around the bubble (on the fringes actually) - i'd say that on average i found a tritium hotspot every 6-8 scanned rings.
But i never filtered systems G-F as some do, not even scoopable ones. I scanned without discrimination

 

[ferus]

Well, I usually send my FC 500 LY ahead and then I am chasing it with my Krait MKII - I need about 13-15 jumps to catch up.
Icy rings are not a big problem to find, the issue is what is in the screenshot - very very few tritium hotspots

 

[ferus]

Or in other words: Not finding a Tritium hot spot in one system proves exactly what? Did you even scan all gas giants and planetary bodies with ice rings in this one system?

This is just an example how ridiculously is RNG treating me. It's not just one system.
And of course I am scanning all icy rings in a system, why would I skip some when I am actively trying to find a specific hotspot?

 

[sabacthani]

I get loads of tritium hotspots, but they are not hotpsots, I got better tritium yields in an LTD hotspot. The LTD hotspot had no LTD's whatsoever, but I did get LTD's in a so called tritium hotspot.
You are better off just randomly selecting an area, and fire off your prospectors.

 

[CMDR Yates]

I've been exploring near the centre purely on mined Tritium. Roughly two out of three icy rings have had a Tritium hotspot for me. The slowest thing for me has been prospecting for Tungsten to keep my Subsurface missiles replenished through synthesis (didn't buy a restock service, brought a bunch of limpets in the hold).

The issue may be luck, or it may be location. I don't know if the stellar forge creates certain areas of the galaxy depleted in certain materials, but it feels that way sometimes.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

I'm in the Arcadian Stream and ran across lots of Tritium Hotspots for what it's worth.

I stopped bookmarking them, plenty to choose from...

 

[ferus]

Ok, thanks for your answers. It seems I am just plain unlucky.
For what it's worth I am currently in Sanguineous rim - I found so many LTD and VO hotspots, I can't even count them anymore

But thanks @sabacthani for the tip, I will try my luck in LTD hotspots and see if there is any tritium to be found.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

I'd say that's the foot print of a really good random generator. I already found an ice ring with nothing but one single Tritium hotspot. You recognize a good RNG by the unexpected diversity which it generates, and not by a boring homogenized distribution.

If people can't figure out if it's RNG or they do something wrong it is rather the footprint of time waste.

 

[Deleted member 182079]

OP, have you tried either just mining in the hotspots you found (say LTD) or drop into the non-hotspot sections of the icy rings? Whenever I mine I always end up with dozens of tons of Tritium either way - mostly through SSDs.

 

[smiths121]

Well, I usually send my FC 500 LY ahead and then I am chasing it with my Krait MKII - I need about 13-15 jumps to catch up.
Icy rings are not a big problem to find, the issue is what is in the screenshot - very very few tritium hotspots

Just curious, sure you have a plan or ar eusing the FC for cargo storage or something.

Why would you take your FC at all, if you end up doing the jumps in the Krait anyway? Sees counter-intiutive to me?
Curious mkinds are asking!!!

Simon

 

[Codger]

Hotspots can be quite varied it seems. Yesterday I was in an LTD hotspot and found void opal cores and a lot of Tritium subsurface stuff. In a Void Opal hotspot I found VOs and LTDs and more Tritium. In a Painite hotspot
I found only gallite and other low level stuff.

I also found a nice LTD2 spot that had lots of LTDs (in cores, almost no laserable).

I think we need a lot of data from many CMDRs to determine the actual distribution.

 

[ferus]

Just curious, sure you have a plan or ar eusing the FC for cargo storage or something.

Why would you take your FC at all, if you end up doing the jumps in the Krait anyway? Sees counter-intiutive to me?
Curious mkinds are asking!!!

Simon

I took my FC to the deep so I wouldn't be stuck with only exploration for weeks or even months.
Now that I have the option it's nice to change the gameplay from time to time and have a nice mining session.
And (unless I send my FC to a very distant system where I can't reach it) I can basically explore in any of my ships so if I get bored of my Krait I can hop into any other that I have with me.

 

[ferus]

OP, have you tried either just mining in the hotspots you found (say LTD) or drop into the non-hotspot sections of the icy rings? Whenever I mine I always end up with dozens of tons of Tritium either way - mostly through SSDs.

Nope, not yet. For some reason I thought I must mine in tritium hotspots. But it has been suggested earlier and I will definitely try that.
Thanks.

 

[smiths121]

I took my FC to the deep so I wouldn't be stuck with only exploration for weeks or even months.
Now that I have the option it's nice to change the gameplay from time to time and have a nice mining session.
And (unless I send my FC to a very distant system where I can't reach it) I can basically explore in any of my ships so if I get bored of my Krait I can hop into any other that I have with me.

That makes some sense, thanks for taking the time to jot that down.

Simon

 

[Crimson Kaim]

Don't know what you mean with RNG gods have forsaken you. 5 VO hotspot sounds kinda nice tbh.

 

[Fawkner]

I'm at the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm, 58k from Sol and mining out here is a bloody joke!
I'm mining a so called Tritium hotspot now and I am lucky to find anything over 12% Tritium!
Nearly 2 hours play and I've only got 97 tonnes!
This really does need another rethink, talk about soul destroying.
In fact time to log off and play something else.