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  • Manufacturing instructions: needed in vast quantities. For almost everything. These can be a drag to amass although you can get 5 on some mission rewards. One idea I saw posted somewhere was that MI's could be given as CZ rewards, This, to me, makes good sense.
Yes, I basically drop into every Impact Site I see now as it's the only way to have a good chance of getting any whilst doing other activities.
For Power Regulators I keep taking them from the same anarchy site, they must hate me now. The place is practically in perpetual darkness as a result :)
 
1 shot to take down the shield, no body damage is taken until the shield is gone...there is no bleed through...it is/was a common complaint...especially right after Ody launched...I think the only exception to that is the intimidator...but I'm probably wrong as I've never used one...
Up and close, the intimidator (with the right engineering) is mostly one shot kills of shielded NPCs.
 
There's an old adage: you'll find lots of the mats you don't need - the ones you do need will always be very elusive. The game is sentient and knows what you are thinking.
Aint that the truth, when I was ranking in combat, I would start salivating when an Anaconda showed up, it seemed every fourth one would yield imperial shield emitters or exquisite focus crystals, but you had to keep on keeping on.
 
For this, I use the Hauler.
It's marginally larger than the Sidey, but it has more modules, higher speed and longer jump range.
It's my salad hunting ship of choice.
Yes I think I'll get a Hauler to maybe use for salad, for the reasons you mentioned, as it's not much bigger than the Sidey. I'm pretty sure I used to have one back in 2015 for trading, but sold it eventually to get a Type 6 (which I still have.)
 
Just took O-Ren Oshii out for some jousting practice. She enjoyed it.

Mamba. Loves fighting
Multicannon no ammo
Combat rank slow gain

JUmped back into the Viper and off to Eurybia. I want Liz Ryder to fit some multi-servo's to my missile racks - just for funsies.
 
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@Codger - I've just now finished fitting out my Type 9 - named "CAPT SENSIBLE SHOPPER" for tritium shopping and I used your loadout, cheers! (y)The only difference was I had to fit a standard 5A shield generator instead of your prismatic one as I'm not yet friendly enough with Aisling Duval to get one. :LOL:

Pity I couldn't use the advanced planetary approach slot to replace with a standard docking computer, when I don't even want to land on planets with it and I had to fit the grade 1 DC into a spare grade 5 slot in the end. The only spare slot after that was a grade 3, where I fitted one of the 3E cargo racks.

Now I need to buy another Type 9 which I'll name "MANIC MINER," and use your mining loadout for that @nemolomen, thanks! (y) So when I'm out in the middle of nowhere I can hopefully be able to mine for more tritium with it.

Right now though, I've had enough of fiddling around with outfitting for a bit and it's back to that on-foot CZ that I found!
 
...Now I need to buy another Type 9 which I'll name "MANIC MINER," and use your mining loadout for that @nemolomen, thanks! (y) So when I'm out in the middle of nowhere I can hopefully be able to mine for more tritium with it...

Ummmm, mining Tritium in quantity may require a different approach as, in my experience, its much more rare for laser mining than Platinum is (within a hotspot that is).

Also, with that loadout, you may want to sacrifice 64 tons of cargo space (leaving 512) to fit another collector limpet controller for less waiting after you've depleted the current rock.

And the 3rd laser, which I keep disabled, you may want to replace it with another Subsurface Displacement Missile per this thread... https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/they-fixed-mining-in-odyssey-yet.613402/

AND, last but not least, while you're mining for Tritium, you might as well pick up all the Low Temperature Diamonds you'll find along the way...
 
Pity I couldn't use the advanced planetary approach slot to replace with a standard docking computer, when I don't even want to land on planets with it and I had to fit the grade 1 DC into a spare grade 5 slot in the end.
Interesting. I'm not sure what you changed but I did have an ADC in the size 1 slot in my build. Everything else, except one size 5 slot for the shield, is cargo racks.

Anyway, based on what you said, I'd put the DC in the size 3 slot and fit another cargo rack in the size 5. The whole point is to have as much cargo space as possible, after all. Gotta minimize those trips! :p

PS Mining Tritium is possible in the black, but tends to be a slow process no matter where you do it. Good for emergencies, but I personally would not want to rely on it much.
 
Oh God - you just provoked an involuntary flashback to 1982....


Source: https://youtu.be/291ET6Py6H8?t=21
Sorry bout that. :p but I do love that version of his of Happy Talk!

I've never met Sensible in person, but I have met Rat Scabies a few times, who likes to tell everyone that he has Ginger Baker's drum kit. (Rat was the drummer for a while with the Members and the base player who I've known for many years is a good friend of mine.)

Ummmm, mining Tritium in quantity may require a different approach as, in my experience, its much more rare for laser mining than Platinum is (within a hotspot that is).

Also, with that loadout, you may want to sacrifice 64 tons of cargo space (leaving 512) to fit another collector limpet controller for less waiting after you've depleted the current rock.

And the 3rd laser, which I keep disabled, you may want to replace it with another Subsurface Displacement Missile per this thread... https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/they-fixed-mining-in-odyssey-yet.613402/

AND, last but not least, while you're mining for Tritium, you might as well pick up all the Low Temperature Diamonds you'll find along the way...
Thanks for all that info and I've made a note of it all. Looks like I'll need to think carefully about how I loadout that ship before I head out to the black...
 
Interesting. I'm not sure what you changed but I did have an ADC in the size 1 slot in my build. Everything else, except one size 5 slot for the shield, is cargo racks.

Anyway, based on what you said, I'd put the DC in the size 3 slot and fit another cargo rack in the size 5. The whole point is to have as much cargo space as possible, after all. Gotta minimize those trips! :p

PS Mining Tritium is possible in the black, but tends to be a slow process no matter where you do it. Good for emergencies, but I personally would not want to rely on it much.
Yes was a problem and after my last post discovered I had to dump one of the 4E cargo racks as I did a quick (local, not far from the carrier) test flight with it and discovered I hadn't fitted the shield generator, so had to swap a few things around. I'll have another fiddle around with it a bit later on because as you said, it needs as much cargo capacity as possible.

Oh and the grade 1 planetary approach slot cannot be used for anything else, as I discovered. Pity they don't just make it a standard grade 1 slot but oh well, whatever...
 
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Oh and the grade 1 planetary approach slot cannot be used for anything else, as I discovered.
Yeah, I'm still not sure why they did it that way.

When Horizons was released and it then became possible to land on planets, they added the Planetary Approach module at that time.

I guess it was a way to separate out the new Horizons stuff from the base game, although I can't for the life of me understand why it required a slot.

In any case, you can remove it and thus make your ship unable to land on planets, but why would you? And it can't be replaced with anything else so... It's a mystery!
 
Now I need to buy another Type 9 which I'll name "MANIC MINER," and use your mining loadout for that @nemolomen, thanks! (y) So when I'm out in the middle of nowhere I can hopefully be able to mine for more tritium with it.
Mining Tritium is a massive waste of time. You're far better served mining platinum and selling it, then buying the Tritium and putting it in the hold. Trust me, you will get bored to tears of Tritium mining in record time, especially in a Type 9 that maneuvers like a pregnant cow being dragged backwards by a freight train.

You couldn't pay me triple what Platinum is worth to mine in a Type 9.
 
Mining Tritium is a massive waste of time. You're far better served mining platinum and selling it, then buying the Tritium and putting it in the hold. Trust me, you will get bored to tears of Tritium mining in record time, especially in a Type 9 that maneuvers like a pregnant cow being dragged backwards by a freight train.

You couldn't pay me triple what Platinum is worth to mine in a Type 9.
:ROFLMAO:

I like mining in a T9...but then I'm unusual, at best...
 
Mining Tritium is a massive waste of time. You're far better served mining platinum and selling it, then buying the Tritium and putting it in the hold. Trust me, you will get bored to tears of Tritium mining in record time, especially in a Type 9 that maneuvers like a pregnant cow being dragged backwards by a freight train.

You couldn't pay me triple what Platinum is worth to mine in a Type 9.
I'm a bit confused now... :oops:

Maybe I'll just buy the stuff then before I head out, if mining it is the grind to end all grinds as you say. Oh and when I did that quick test flight in my shopping T9 I did notice that it made a Reliant Robin look like a Ferrari...
 
I'm a bit confused now...
It's simple economics.

You can buy Tritium just about anywhere for 45,000 - 50,000 per ton. Gold is actually more valuable.

Platinum, on average, is worth around 260,000 per ton. So in the time it takes you to mine one ton of platinum, you're actually mining about 5 tons of Tritium.

Do you really want to sit out there in the black for hours on end mining the 1000+ tons of Tritium to get you back, or had you rather simply mine 250 to 300 tons of platinum in 30 minutes or so, sell that, buy the 1,500 tons of Tritium and throw it in the hold before you ever leave?
 
I'm a bit confused now... :oops:

Maybe I'll just buy the stuff then before I head out, if mining it is the grind to end all grinds as you say. Oh and when I did that quick test flight in my shopping T9 I did notice that it made a Reliant Robin look like a Ferrari...
It's simple economics.

You can buy Tritium just about anywhere for 45,000 - 50,000 per ton. Gold is actually more valuable.

Platinum, on average, is worth around 260,000 per ton. So in the time it takes you to mine one ton of platinum, you're actually mining about 5 tons of Tritium.

Do you really want to sit out there in the black for hours on end mining the 1000+ tons of Tritium to get you back, or had you rather simply mine 250 to 300 tons of platinum in 30 minutes or so, sell that, buy the 1,500 tons of Tritium and throw it in the hold before you ever leave?
One could also take a session to mine a Tritium hotspot in a pristine and then another session to mine a Platinum hotspot in a pristine and determine what there is to like/dislike for each approach...

But yeah, basically what @Marvin the Martian said, but also taking into account the YOU, @bugbait42, want/like to play the game.

I was skeptical about mining in general until I tried it. I found that I like it quite a lot...its a different pace of game play...and I find it a nice change from running around like a food fowl with my noggin removed (AKA - doing missions)...

But, we're all different...
 
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