Tritium Mining in the black

Friedenreich Xante

Friedenreich Xante
Frillop Freyraum said:
SSD-SLF trick, what's that? Never heard about it...
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Find a (or several, but one is enough) Sub-Surface-Deposit of wanted Metal / Mineral on an asteroid with the lowest spin possible. Collect it, then disable your thrusters and launch your SLF. Go at least 27 km away from your Mothership, then disable the thrusters of the SLF. Switch to Mothership. The SSD is full again. Collect everything, disable thrusters, switch to the SLF still parked at 27+km, rinse and repeat. If the asteroid has no spin at all you can even leave the thrusters disabled as you don't need to aim at all :D

Advised equipments: multiple SSDM launchers (one each ca. 200 tons of cargo) and a SLF, mining gear ofc.
 

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OldManKnott

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If every galaxy sector had a decent mining spot near the centre which was listed then refuelling Fleet Carriers wouldn't be so bad. The spot I found near Sag A is an excellent resource.

Found an overlapping Tritium hostspot near Sagittarius A

Really not sure where to post this but please feel free to add to any FAQ's or FC refuelling lists if they exist. Sagitarius A is a good point to refuel / top up your FC if coming from the bubble or from Beagle Point, (or anywhere north of Sag A), if you're happy to mine for the Tritium...
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Friedenreich Xante

Friedenreich Xante
Frillop Freyraum said:
Woah, how lame. And how unfun. Congratulation to suck the fun out of one of the most entertaining activities mining has to offer right now.
Do it, I certainly won't mind. Just allow me one question: didn't you ever consider this an exploit that may be - just may be - fixed very soon? Guess I'll never get the mindset of these typical MMO min-maxing players that usually are the first to complain about the grind... 😣
But thanks anyway for your honest answer. Much appreciated. 🖖
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Seriously, I see your point. But personally I prefer getting the money I need quick to spend it loooong time on the activities I prefer. Because mining is not specially entertaining to me, at least not on the long run. If the activities I find entertaining would earn me just a quarter of that money, I wouldn't even bother doing those silly things. If it gets fixed, fine by me, I share it with others while there is the time to.
 

CMDR Yates

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sabacthani said:
The hotspots are pretty crap, I got more tritium from an LTD hotspot.
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I commonly get 40 tons of Tritium from a single asteroid in single Tritium hotspots. Usually at least one 30-40 ton asteroid per ring visit.

You have to use lasers and SSDs, if you aren't already (or just SSDs, but lasers are good for when the hotspot rotates away and you're in too tight a spot to follow it, or if the rock has >15% Tritium).

Subsurface mining has been buffed immensely, you're at a big disadvantage if you don't use it.

Edit: The downside is having to go looking for tungsten on planets every few jumps, to synthesise the subsurface displacement missiles, as I neglected to install a resupply module in my FC (thought I was being clever with a hold full of limpets). I also forgot to install an SRV in any ship I brought with me... have to eyeball geysers for minerals, shoot them off with a pulse laser, and painstakingly scrape my Phantom along the ground to pick them up, hah!

Making my way to Explorers' Anchorage from Colonia... slooowly... I hope they've at least got some SRVs in stock...
 
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Staarlord

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Mining just needs to be more reasonable. 1000t @ 10 hours. Add weeks if you're wanting to hit 10K. Buying and planning, as mentioned, is the only way.
 

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Frillop Freyraum said:
Then maybe you'll like that too?

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oh that's great. I admit that, for a non-native English speaker, sometimes it's difficult to follow all conversations, there is a lot of slang and acronyms difficult to understand. A few day ago another player in vocal chat was asking me about the jumponium, besides the difficulty to understand the word itself due to the pronounce, when I got it I thought, what-the-hell-is-that??
Anyway... Loop of shame... LOL, one of my classics, and now it also has a name :LOL:

Elite is very much internet dependant and also (more or less) depends on third party tools and apps. Personally I've tried to avoid them - for a long time at least, since I like to figure things out by myself. Most of this stuff spoils my fun. So, know what you like and what not, you can easily get lost by this external cosmos that is wrapped around the game... ;)
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I just use Inara and EDDB mostly to find things I need, and then another page long time ago to find pristine rings. On many things I'm still a noob even if I have been playing for one year :D
 

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Frillop Freyraum said:
I like that attitude. You're much closer to the truth than all those clowns who play for a year and claim to be experts. You might have guessed that this is not the average MMO. ;)
By the way, I'm not a native speaker either (I'm a German grammar naz... errm nitpicker). I learned most of my spelling from this forum (and from the fact that I depend heavily on crutches, like DeepL or dict.cc). I guess, 7 years and over 10000 hours seem to slowly leave their traces... Apart from that, I might be an "experienced" player, but far from an expert. For example, I understand close to nothing of all the multiplayer aspects of the game and some other things. At least I know what I not know (as Socrates didn't say). 🥴
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For a German speaker, English grammar is like a toy rated for 1-3 year old children :D
I have studied German for 8 years at school, plus 2 years of language school, and I can barely say what my name is... but that was many years ago, in my defense :D
 

CMDR Yates

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Frillop Freyraum said:
Back to my first investigations: A single tritium hotspot doesn't prevent LTD cores from appearing - just like pretty much any other mineral. Slowly I am beginning to suspect that, as someone mentioned recently (he said that he would get even more tritium there!), I could find tritium in LTD hotspots as easily as in tritium hotspots. It almost looks like there are a lot of pathetic fake functions in action here that we all fall for. At the next opportunity, my research will move in that direction. I'm curious if this will be confirmed (hopefully not).
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I've tried that once or twice, and in my experience, Tritium is present but considerably less common outside Tritium hotspots. Same story looking for Tritium in other hotspots. It's there, but not reliably common.

I believe most hotspots give an 80-90% chance for core asteroids to be of that mineral variant. So in a Void Opal hotspot, any core discovered has an 80-90% chance of being Void Opal, a 10-20% chance of being something else.

However, Tritium hotspots cannot produce Tritium cores, as Tritium cores do not exist, so you get all kinds of random cores there (with LTD, VO and Bromellite predominating, in my experience)

(I'm focusing on subsurface deposits for Tritium, so I'm looking mostly at glowing asteroids. The situation could be different for laser mining, I'm not sure)
 
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Gpaolo

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I think different hotspots have different tritium presence.
In VO hotspot, I found barely no tritium. In LTD hotspot, I find almost 1:1 LTD/Tritium.
Also, asteroids with LTD are more likely to contain also tritium, and the other way around. I haven't noticed this with other type of asteroids.
 
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