Tritium Mining

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d8veh said:
Jeez, already completely conflicting advice and nothing specific. It must have been a stupid question. I guess I'll just have to use Google.
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To mine Tritium, look for hotspots in icy rings, although it can be found anywhere in icy rings. It can be extracted by laser, as well as sub surface mining. A Python works well for this as you can set it up to do all 4 types of mining and is nimble enough to manoeuvre around astroids for ssd mining. Ssd mining will drastically reduce the amount of time spent mining, but this should be done in conjunction with laser mining because there are many high% yield astroids you would want to exploit. Usually when ssd mining you can get away with packing in less limpets, but because you should be doing laser as well, you would want fill up on limpets.
07, Good luck.
 

d8veh

d8veh
Some of you guys still don't get it. I know everything about mining. All I wanted to know was a specific place where tritium was plentiful, just like we used to go to Hyades Sector DB-X d1-112 for Painite and Borann for LTDs, so that I didn't have to waste time exploring for my own hotspot. I already knew about how to find tritium generally. I had already tried a random icy ring with a hotspot, but its yield was very low. That's why I asked for advice - not how to mine, but where to mine. I thought that was the idea of the forum to help each other out by sharing knowledge.

Many thanks to the guys that did get it and answered my questions by suggesting specific places. I'm sure all the other advice will be useful to other players.
 
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d8veh

d8veh
scadh said:
@OP, I really am not trying to be difficult, I mean it. You're absolutely entitled to do whatever you want in the game or these forums, and neither I nor anyone else can say otherwise. That's fine and as it should be.

What I'm having a hard time understanding is the dichotomy between statements like "I'm an expert miner! I'm ranked #3 on Inara!" and "Please explain this trivial mining concept to me!". And then backing that up by arguing with nearly everybody who gives you an answer you don't like. So you're a pro who asks for novice advice then belittles the people who provide it. Say huh? If you know better than everyone else -- who are pretty much all telling you the same thing -- then why are asking at all?

1. Mine Tritium in ANY icy ring hotspot. If that's not good enough, go to any of the dozen systems pointed out by name in this thread.
2. Or mine ANYTHING else you want (to maintain your Inara ranking) and sell it to purchase Tritium (which you evidently need).

Those are really specific answers. What else are you hoping for? If it's just lively debate, that's fine -- say that! We all like a spirited but respectful disagreement sometimes, especially when we're nameless and faceless at our computers thousands of miles apart! :)
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You're getting mixed up. This is me:"I'm an expert miner! I'm ranked #3 on Inara!". I've no idea where you got this from, but it wasn't me: "Please explain this trivial mining concept to me!" I don't remember seeing it anywhere, so I'm guessing that it must have come out of your head.

The only answers I didn't like were the ones that didn't answer my question, which was, as I quote from my OP, "I don't need to know about the ship or how to mine. I just need to know where to go". That's in the context of me saying that I wanted to mine tritium and something worthwhile with it. If you look at the rest of what I wrote in that post and what I wrote in further posts, I made it very clear that I was looking for a specific place, not a general solution. I tried to make it as clear as I could to discourage people from giving random answers about why they don't mine tritium and why they think their Python is the bees knees. Now look at all the answers telling me how to mine, why not to, and what ship I should use - 4 pages of them. Well done to the guys that actually read the question and gave appropriate answers.
 
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LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
d8veh said:
Some of you guys still don't get it. I know everything about mining. All I wanted to know was a specific place where tritium was plentiful, just like we used to go to Hyades Sector DB-X d1-112 for Painite and Borann for LTDs, so that I didn't have to waste time exploring for my own hotspot. I already knew about how to find tritium generally. I had already tried a random icy ring with a hotspot, but its yield was very low. That's why I asked for advice- not how to mine, but where to mineI thought that was the idea of the forum to help each other out by sharing knowledge.

Many thanks to the guys that did get it and answered my questions by suggesting specific places. I'm sure all the other advice will be useful to other players.
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You might have saved yourself a lot of time at the beginning of this thread had you simply asked for tritium mining spots.
 

d8veh

d8veh
LeoBartlet said:
You might have saved yourself a lot of time at the beginning of this thread had you simply asked for tritium mining spots.
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I guess you didn't read my OP. This is what I wrote, "I just need to know where to go. Are there best places? Are there hotspots, double or triple hotspots or what?"

How do you think I could have asked that better?

This forum sure is fun, sort of like a battle of wits rather than helping each other out with what they need.
 
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Stealthie

Stealthie
d8veh said:
I guess you didn't read my OP. This is what I wrote, "I just need to know where to go. Are there best places? Are there hotspots, double or triple hotspots or what?"
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And, right underneath that, it also says "last edited a moment ago".
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
d8veh said:
I guess you didn't read my OP. This is what I wrote, "I just need to know where to go. Are there best places? Are there hotspots, double or triple hotspots or what?"

How do you think I could have asked that better?

This forum sure is fun, sort of like a battle of wits rather than helping each other out with what they need.
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I did read it thanks did you after writing it?

Your first sentence was " To save me looking it all up, can someome give me the lowdown on Tritium mining? "

Perhaps your greatest crime is having a little bit too much faith in people reading the entirety of a post :)
 

scadh

scadh
d8veh said:
You're getting mixed up. This is me:"I'm an expert miner! I'm ranked #3 on Inara!". I've no idea where you got this from, but it wasn't me: "Please explain this trivial mining concept to me!" I don't remember seeing it anywhere, so I'm guessing that it must have come out of your head.

The only answers I didn't like were the ones that didn't answer my question, which was, as I quote from my OP, "I don't need to know about the ship or how to mine. I just need to know where to go". That's in the context of me saying that I wanted to mine tritium and something worthwhile with it. If you look at the rest of what I wrote in that post and what I wrote in further posts, I made it very clear that I was looking for a specific place, not a general solution. I tried to make it as clear as I could to discourage people from giving random answers about why they don't mine tritium and why they think their Python is the bees knees. Now look at all the answers telling me how to mine, why not to, and what ship I should use - 4 pages of them. Well done to the guys that actually read the question and gave appropriate answers.
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Sigh.

I was obviously paraphrasing you, which I expect you know since you also didn't explicitly say the "I'm an expert" part yet owned up to that.

Either way, do what you will. I'll not waste another minute of your time or mine.
 

d8veh

d8veh
Stealthie said:
And, right underneath that, it also says "last edited a moment ago".
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That was when I removed a g that was next to one of the "h"s in worthwhile from when my big finger caught 2 keys at once, which I noticed when I copied and pasted it for post #65!
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
d8veh said:
That was when I removed a g that was next to one of the "h"s in worthwhile from when my big finger caught 2 keys at once, which I noticed when I copied and pasted it for post #65!
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You're really insisting that you haven't changed the title of this thread or the content of your OP?

Right ho.
Best of luck with mining Tritium.
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
d8veh said:
Mining tritium might not be worthwhile for most people, but it is for me because I WANT to mine it. I don't NEED to mine it. You're looking at my problem from your frame of reference, not mine. It was a simple request - Where can I get lots of tritium with something else? - but everybody is trying to change it into something they want to do. I keep saying that I don't need money. I already have 300 billion that I can't spend. If I could get 200T of tritium per hour plus 100T of something else, I'd be happy. Bear in mind that my Cutter can strip a rock and hoover up the fragments in seconds with 4 lasers and 12 limpets.

To put your curiosity at ease. I'm third in the Inara rankings for mining. I'd like to keep my position, so I have to mine some more. I don't care what I mine, and I need tritium for my carrier, so I had the brilliant idea that rather than fill my ship with painite and sell it for money that I don't need, I could find a nice spot where tritium is plentiful and use my ship to its full potential to kill two birds with one stone. Then I thought that if I could find something worthwhile with it, I can keep that as well rather than filling my hold with methane claptrap and throwing it all away, which would make me feel like I'm cheating. Everything I have in the game is by hard work and being ethical. I don't use scripts just so that I can say that my ship has gone the fiurthest in the game or I've done the most trading, like some of the other people in the rankings obviously do.
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Thank you for explaining your reason for you wanting to Mine Tritium.......your game style, so yeah you play how you want.
You have to decide what's more important to you in that case......you want to keep your third spot in Inara mining ranking, then Tritium isn't one of the easiest to 1) fill up your hold & 2) sell for better profit.
I don't look at Inara rankings, so I wouldn't know if this ranking list is based on volume mined or value of materials Mined.

Now because you want to fuel your Carrier as well, then that depends on if your Carrier is in the bubble or not.

If it is, then it won't need that much Tritium, so why Mine it when there are more abundant products you can Mine.
If not, then it seems much better to Mine something like Platinum in a hotspot, which will easily give you a decent amount in your hold, to sell at 280K/T. So allowing each Tonne of Platinum to purchase 5.6T of Tritrium, to fuel your Carrier on the next trip to one of the Mining site's you have requested.

But you probably already know all this, from your snarky responses to player's posts who are trying to help you with limited information given by you.

Good luck, with your decision making cmdr:rolleyes:

Edit: WOW!!!!!!

I just looked up these Inara Ranking Lists, mentioned by the cmdr...........I'm No 1 ranked in the Level 3 Detailed Scan List🥳🥳

Beat that Mr No. 3 ranked guy;)
 
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efoo

efoo
If you are asking for hotspots like the extinct Borann triple LTD hotspots, I don't think many commanders know of any specific Tritium hotspots which are "great" for mining. They are all the same and crap. Tritium percentage yield for laser mining is crap, around a few percent up to 30%, compared to other metals/minerals up to over 60%. Tritium SSD can gain you extra, but overall most commanders prefer to mine other better paid metals/minerals e.g. platinum, sell them and then use the credits to buy Tritium. To me, Tritium mining is not really worth my game time.
 
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