Would a pulse wave analyser help finding decent rocks, or is that just for finding cores?
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For an A class its 5 times.
Would a 4A Power plant and downgrading the thrusters to 3A be a better idea to help with power levels?Try this. You can skimp on the thrusters , if you want too but everything else is essential. Absolutely keep the A rated prospector. Prospector limpets increase the yield of an asteroid by 5 times. A pulse wave scanner will only show you asteroids that have something on them like a sub surface deposit or if it has a core. Laser mining is the most reliable source of income but the others are very good as well. Also set your power priority where your FSD is on priority 2 because it doesnt have enough power for everything to run at the same time.
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Lol - just realised a T6 is limited to a lvl3 power plant
It would probably be better to downgrade the thrusters a D rated because it uses less energy than the 3A and will perform better. Dont be afraid of power management. When your in normal space you arent using the FSD so if you set it to priority 2 all it will do is shut off your fsd when you deploy your weapons.Lol - just realised a T6 is limited to a lvl3 power plant
I've built this assuming you dont have any engineering unlocked but if you have felicity farseer unlocked she gives grade 1 PP upgrades. If you can do that I would highly recommend doing a G1 armored upgrade with monstered experimental. Armored primarily reinforced the strength of your power plant but it also has a side effect of giving you a small power boost and a decrease in heat output at the same time. The monstered experimental gives you the equivalent of a grade 1 overcharged upgrade only without the heat penalty. That will give you plenty of power to run most anything you need with the bonus of your ship running a little colder. It's a very hot running ship so I highly recommend doing that.
Hello new person. Welcome to the game. o7. So the T6 is a better mining ship because it can equip more collection limpets. Yes you can technically mine with only 1 limpet but that will severely drag down your credits per hour. Also the T6 and cobra 3 both use the same size power distributor and it's not strong enough to power 2 medium class mining laser very long but if you equip 2 small lasers instead and put all four pips into weapons you should be able to drain an entire asteroid in one go or near to it. The Cobra however is much better at core mining because it's medium hardpoint can hold the seismic charge launcher. it's faster and can scout out the rocks quicker and it's good an maneuvering to get between the rock fragments after it's split open.
Well, about LOW lvl mining, core mining its look like only good way, at least for me, because there is no ship capable of using more then one Mining laser (until there is some Power Distributor upgrade somewhere).
A class 3A power distributor will handle either a single medium size or two small mining lasers. Any build will be enhanced by engineering but the one I showed doesn't require it. If you use a class D FSD and thrusters the cost of the build I posted is about 3 million in total. You will make that back and much more in one run. Also the pulse Wave scanner is glitched at the moment and doesn't reliably highlight asteroids the way it should so until that's fixed, laser mining is the best way to go. This is a pretty standard build for new players to be honest but you do what you want. It doesn't matter to me.Well, about LOW lvl mining, core mining its look like only good way, at least for me, because there is no ship capable of using more then one Mining laser (until there is some Power Distributor upgrade somewhere).
Cobra is way better in speed because of A grade Thrusters and a lot easier to maneuvering between asteroids.
But that is my opinion as newbie
