Cool running is always a good thing. But I've been around a bit, never taken heatsinks or repair limpets and I've hauled an AFMU over my last 30-odd thousand light years without ever using it. Ironically, the closest I've come to a rebuy was two weeks ago when I slammed into a high-g planet and lost 83% hull and the AFMU was of no use (limpets would have done the trick).ship has one big downside, it heats up way fast
I've just noticed... on the 'Conda, the cockpit seems to move almost independantly of the rest of the ship, like it's on hydraulics or "floating" above the fuselage. This is especially noticeable in auto-launch mode; the nose seems to dip and raise on its own. Strange...
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Did my 1st jumps with the Phantom Menace, already at 5k from the bubble and will be jumping further out today, i plan to lose myself for quite some time in the void...
U can follow the trip if interested here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/commander-marco-santos-space-odissey-log.520250/
I admit I’m no expert and am no doubt making some mistakes due to my unfamiliarity with the process but it seems far from the ‘your arms get tired from shovelling all the credits’ experience some seem to have.
You will need to use a few prospector limpets to find the right rock with fissures.I invested quite a few hours into the new mining without success. Dropped into many VO sites without a sniff.Still not done CEM or collected 1 gram of VO with everything including the kitchen sink aboard.
Maybe i'm just an unlucky miner.Old school still works,tho.![]()
Sure, I made a couple of hundred million out of it, but it was incredibly tedious in the process, apart from the actual times I found a VO core and set to work exploding it. That was good fun.
I did consider naming my purpose built mining ship “Don’t Forget Limpets”, because I’d make the several jumps, eventually find the hot spot...well, you know why.
I’ve seen some say they do it for an afternoon. I managed hour bursts at a time. Seeing them explode the first few times is great but I soon became impatient to just collect the goods. It’s not as though I even need the credits.
By the time i get around to trying again the bottom will have dropped out of the market.(If that gets censored,i mean 'not top').All my prospectorsYou will need to use a few prospector limpets to find the right rock with fissures.
They usually have some surface deposits to abrade. I approached hot spots from a few hundred kilometers out and work to the center.
Takes time, used INARA, to find the closest best spot to sell. (Is that cheating?? umm)
I'm still far too busy eliminating places i haven't been.![]()
This was such a hot topic at one time they produced a station banner for it.I did consider naming my purpose built mining ship “Don’t Forget Limpets”, because I’d make the several jumps, eventually find the hot spot...well, you know why.