Interesting, thx for info. It was not hard to get that permit, but knowledge is always welcome
I am thinking about setting up a ship for Tritium mining far away from The Bubble / civilization. It will be deployed from a FC.
I already have a T-8 and I would like to use it for mining.
I think I can skip large shields. It currently has 5C Bi-Wave.
Edit: Something like that?
https://edsy.org/s/vTiQgWr
(Engineering was already done)
I already have a T-8 and I would like to use it for mining.
I think I can skip large shields. It currently has 5C Bi-Wave.
Edit: Something like that?
https://edsy.org/s/vTiQgWr
(Engineering was already done)
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The easiest way to find out is to try it, just find your nearest Pristine ice ring with a Tritium hotspot, you will also need to fit a Detailed Surface Scanner to be able to find and see hotspots.
Don't engineer E-rated modules - total waste. D-rate the life support and sensors.
No need for overcharged plant, you hae plenty of power with Armored, OC just makes you hot for no reason.
Are you married to the Type-8? Your build with just the mining lasers has a 13 second TTD (time to drain WEP), after which at least one will turn off, and then you will overheat and have to stop firing to avoid heat damage. If you had infinite regen then 1med3small will take you much longer than that at 83 seconds to drain a rock, according to IMU's math. This is most of why the Type-8 is such a bad laser miner: the tiny distributor, and the lack of medium hardpoints. So at least one of those smalls is an active detriment to your laser mining: drop one or two for best results.
You can of course use whatever you want, but I'd strongly encourage you to use something else for laser mining.
Thats why I said try it, there is nothing like a bit of trial and error to optimise or change a build
Is laser mining affected by points? Are there points that say tritium?
I have no idea, I am not involved with PP2.
You do not, you can just laser around in an ice ring and you will find SOME tritium, but if you want to mine Tritium efficiently then you need to mine it in a tritium hotspot. To find hotspots you need to have a DSS fitted.
That translator is not working very well, there are hotspots for tritium, when your post said "points" I thought you were referring to the power play points which I am not involved with.
I see your point, used to mine all the time without a DSS scanner, it wasn't in the game.
As far as I remember it appeared at the same time as core mining. So I always thought that for laser mining the type of ring, rich, etc. is important, and DSS doesn't affect it.
I will now look closely at the type of points and when I find a POINT named Tritium I will believe it affects it.
P.S. Strange, it turns out there are such points ...
Hotspots
edtools.cc
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Minerals and Metals A full list of in game minerals and metals, hotspots and other details listed for each type.
If by points you mean hot spots, then yes. You will find a higher occurrence of rocks with with hot spot named mineral than elsewhere. Last I knew there was some question over double, overlapping hot spots of the same name having an even higher occurrence, but that was a while ago and if it has been determined I do not know.
I used to collect opals in triple dots for FC, it was a long time ago.
I'm opting for a class 4 prismatic for my Type 8 for trading, I'd imagine that's suitable for mining as well and give you some more space to work with.