No.
I am finding it oppressive in almost every room, it is just more oppressive in such rooms.
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I am finding it oppressive in almost every room, it is just more oppressive in such rooms.
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No. For most mining ships you are sacrificing either cargo space or efficiency by putting a fuel scoop. For cases where you cannot reach the selling system on one fuel tank there are alternatives. Even in the old Borann days before fleet carriers I never equipped a scoop. There are generally two ways of handling the cases where you cannot reach the selling station without refuelling, both involve finding a station in a system near your mining system that is reasonably close to the arrival star.
1. Store a fuel scoop and a guardian FSD booster at the station. If you cannot reach the sell station without refuelling, drop by the station snd exchange two limpet controllers for the FSD booster and fuel scoop. This both gives you faster scooping than if you had equipped a small scoop and a larger range - letting you reach the sell station faster. This often means you get the extra 3-4 minutes it takes to perform the procedure back in reduced travelling time.
2. The more extreme option is to store a separate long range hauling ship at the station - optimised to carry as much cargo as the mining ship while also providing significantly better jump range and a big fuel scoop. The basic idea is the same as the first option. If you cannot reach the sell station without refuelling - drop by the station and switch to the delivery ship.
Edit: Of course, if you have a carrier, everything changes. I have several different mining ships and a couple of specialized hauling ships. None of them carry fuel scoops.
Mine (no pun intended
) did, when I was doing a bit of Void Opal gathering back in the day. I didn’t do much of it, because it quite frankly bored the arx off of me, and the popcorn double-feature(*) ‘roids were not exactly abundant. But I did find a reasonably rich area which was about 300 ly outside the bubble, and I needed the scoop to get there and back. I was in my Krait MkII at the time. It didn’t hold anywhere near as much as the Cutter, obviously, but to be honest, I only once filled the cargo space I had in the Krait, and that took hours, so the prospect of trying to fill a Cutter doesn’t fill me with enthusiasm (*) Bonus marks for getting that (admittedly very obscure) musical reference
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Mine (no pun intended
(*) Bonus marks for getting that (admittedly very obscure) musical reference
RHPS?
If in the bubble, set the jump router to 1k, uses less fuel per jump, but more jumps to your destination. Be prepared to defend yourself from interdiction. You can run a smaller fuel scoope.
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Try the little assault course at Cubeo if you have a decent drive and are trying to make it big with the Empire.
Er, prob wont do that assault course. Aside from the fact that I see Pixie 40 as an independent who owes no loyalty to any one faction, he's not a combat pilot. Oh sure, he can fight. But he's not aiming for that to be something he's known for. He's aiming to be known as a dependable trader. Granted, a combat rep is inevitable since his dependability kind of requires that he defend his cargo.
Mining lances are crap. The only thing they are slightly useful for is manual prospecting, but that costs you fragments and therefore efficiency. When you are laser mining you really want to be as close to the asteroid as possible to minimize the travel time of your collector limpets. The extra range of the mining lances is therefore of limited use and using medium mining lasers is generally much more effective.
That really does not make things faster though. As already stated, manual prospecting costs you fragments. Hitting an asteroid with an A-rated prospector multiplies the number of available fragments by 3.5 so any fragment that was extracted before the prospecting event is losing you 2.5 fragments.
I would suggest the iMU discord.
Which is itself a cover of an ancient "Searchers" track
I am intrigued by The Fall, it is the sort of band I should love and I do like a couple of their tracks, Touch Sensitive is a masterpiece, I'm just not sure I could sit through a whole album. I should try harder.
Ah, that's better... painite lasering for me until I reach my goal in credits. Not quite up to LTD standards, but it'll do \o/
Edit: 10-4 rubber duck. Couple of hundred mil today. Which was nice. We'll see what happens if they decide re-patch again.
Edit: 10-4 rubber duck. Couple of hundred mil today. Which was nice. We'll see what happens if they decide re-patch again.
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Messing around with Steam Link. The touch screen overlay that's supposed to be a gamepad doesn't work right, but hey I can more or less play ED on my phone now, wherever I want. The d-pad works fine, but keys bound to the four buttons on the other side just don't seem to register. Thankfully I can also use the phone's own onscreen keyboard to do pretty much anything else, including jumping. Useless for anything other than traveling but if it helps shorten my first trip to Sag A I really don't mind.
The AFMU is getting a bit of a workout though...
The AFMU is getting a bit of a workout though...