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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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Still searching for bromellite. Only have 26 units but I may drop them off in case I'm forced into a Freewinder situation.
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Delivered. Did some research, decamped the Krait from Diaguandri to Alioth and scoped out an icy ring nearby. Hopefully, this will yield more bromellite for the greedy Mr. Turner.
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Delivered. Did some research, decamped the Krait from Diaguandri to Alioth and scoped out an icy ring nearby. Hopefully, this will yield more bromellite for the greedy Mr. Turner.
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Sub surface mining...
Completely forgot about it, never tried it. (added to list).
Or maybe kill some Thargoids.
Or look at the next CG.
Or...
Too many things to do!
Completely forgot about it, never tried it. (added to list).
Or maybe kill some Thargoids.
Or look at the next CG.
Or...
Too many things to do!
After a few days of travelling I finally made it to the Bubble Nebula. Not only is this not off the beaten track, the track has a damn good thrashing! Didn't jump into a single untagged system en route. However, there were a bunch of unmapped items of interest, including an ELW, several WWs, and a boatload of THMCs. Should be worth a few million.
The object of the exercise was to find the elusive tubeworm. Unfortunately, either I misread something or just misunderstood because the target system I cut-n-pasted holds no tubeworms. But I found - surprise!! - bark mounds. And lots of them.
However, I have no complaints - the scenery out here is just spectacular:
Plan now is to have a snoop about some other systems in the nebula and then find a scenic route back home.
The object of the exercise was to find the elusive tubeworm. Unfortunately, either I misread something or just misunderstood because the target system I cut-n-pasted holds no tubeworms. But I found - surprise!! - bark mounds. And lots of them.
However, I have no complaints - the scenery out here is just spectacular:
Plan now is to have a snoop about some other systems in the nebula and then find a scenic route back home.
After a few days of travelling I finally made it to the Bubble Nebula. Not only is this not off the beaten track, the track has a damn good thrashing! Didn't jump into a single untagged system en route. However, there were a bunch of unmapped items of interest, including an ELW, several WWs, and a boatload of THMCs. Should be worth a few million.
The object of the exercise was to find the elusive tubeworm. Unfortunately, either I misread something or just misunderstood because the target system I cut-n-pasted holds no tubeworms. But I found - surprise!! - bark mounds. And lots of them.
thats a shaved planet
Phew. 50 units of bromellite - done. Bill Turner G5 access - done. That's 14 engineers now. The rest is combat related.
What a slog that was. I'm sure I wasn't being very efficient but I've learnt a couple of things about mining but nothin about the splodey stuff yet. Another venture, another time; for now, I'm like the asteroids I've lasered - depleted on the mining wanna-do's.
Back to CR making
What a slog that was. I'm sure I wasn't being very efficient but I've learnt a couple of things about mining but nothin about the splodey stuff yet. Another venture, another time; for now, I'm like the asteroids I've lasered - depleted on the mining wanna-do's.
Back to CR making
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Ironically enough, had you used "that 'splodey stuff" you are trying so hard to avoid, you'd now have the access AND money and the whole thing wouldn't have felt like a slog.Phew. 50 units of bromellite - done. Bill Turner G5 access - done. That's 14 engineers now. The rest is combat related.
What a slog that was. I'm sure I wasn't being very efficient but I've learnt a couple of things about mining but nothin about the splodey stuff yet. Another venture, another time; for now, I'm like the asteroids I've lasered - depleted on the mining wanna-do's.
Back to CR making
Not actively avoiding it, per se: just putting it off as it's an aspect of the game I will get around to - at some point. I don't rush into things you see (he said, having played for well over a year!Ironically enough, had you used "that 'splodey stuff" you are trying so hard to avoid, you'd now have the access AND money and the whole thing wouldn't have felt like a slog.
)What I found interesting though was LTDs. Yesterday, I sold one for just over 500k. Today, at the same station, it netted me 450k.
Not much of a profit hit, but had my T9 a full load, that would have been a little irksome. That's markets for you, I s'pose...
Yes, the high value ores and stuff fluctuate quite drastically, mainly because demand for them is usually quite low.Not actively avoiding it, per se: just putting it off as it's an aspect of the game I will get around to - at some point. I don't rush into things you see (he said, having played for well over a year!
What I found interesting though was LTDs. Yesterday, I sold one for just over 500k. Today, at the same station, it netted me 450k.
Not much of a profit hit, but had my T9 a full load, that would have been a little irksome. That's markets for you, I s'pose...
That's one of the reasons why I ditched the T9 as my main mining rig and outfitted the Krait mk.II instead. It can still haul 160t, which is respectable amount (especially considering the price of the stuff I'm hauling out of the rings is usually in hundreds of thousands per unit) and it can jump 40LY fully laden so it's much easier to go around selling stuff. Smaller size is also a plus when scraping the insides of the roids.
But yeah. Know your markets, basically. That's what high value mining is about.
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I must be doing something right then: my K2 is my miner and it, too, hauls 160 tons.
Something else seemed a bit random. Sometimes, my collector limpets lasted ages while, at other times, they expired in seconds. Haven't got to the bottom of that yet.
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And sometimes, I'd be told I was out of range for my limpets yet they continued anyway. AND! Sometimes I'd launch a prospector only to br told it had failed but it did its job regardless.
Something else seemed a bit random. Sometimes, my collector limpets lasted ages while, at other times, they expired in seconds. Haven't got to the bottom of that yet.
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And sometimes, I'd be told I was out of range for my limpets yet they continued anyway. AND! Sometimes I'd launch a prospector only to br told it had failed but it did its job regardless.
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Hah! Ninja'd.It's because the robot butlers are a bit stoopid.
Had to make an added ETA
Ah, now then.
I think the 'prospector limpet failed' refers to your previous prospector.
ie. you can only have x amount operational.
Maybe.
Like Speedcufs said, your prospector controler, at least when you have the smallest one, which you probably do, can only control one active limpet. So when you shoot another limpet and the first one is still in range, it will self-destruct. Hence the warning message.
As for the collectors, two things can happen with them.
1) Your limpet ran into something and killed itself. It happens, unfortunately. They're not very good at navigating around the asteroids.
2) (more probably) you have a chunk of ore targeted. The thing with the collectors is - when you don't have anything targeted, they simply run around, collecting everything. But if you target a specific chunk, they will fetch it and then self-destruct.
edit: Goddammit, this is annoying. My keyboard started putting double B everywhere when I press the key. It's not even a year old. :/
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Think it was 1) then. I understand the targeted chunk thing. Took a few losses for me to realise something was up and I really should read the frelling manual. I need to investigate as to how many collectors I can have going - currently 2 so I'm wondering if 2 controllers = 4 collectors. Another thing to look into. Honestly, every time I get something sussed, another million questions arise. The joys of an ED pilot.
Keeps me on me toes and understanding the headology of the Creators.
I do have to so say though... this game is like chess; you can undestand the moves and what the aims are, but the true depth of the game is in its subtletty and diversity with unexpected nuances at every turn. Yeah, it's late and I'm getting all philosophical
Keeps me on me toes and understanding the headology of the Creators.
I do have to so say though... this game is like chess; you can undestand the moves and what the aims are, but the true depth of the game is in its subtletty and diversity with unexpected nuances at every turn. Yeah, it's late and I'm getting all philosophical
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Bloody Thargoids!
At least
aim for 8+ active and laser mining actually becomes dynamic as you race between rocks before they all did Hint: larger controllers - more limpets
Think it was 1) then. I understand the targeted chunk thing. Took a few losses for me to realise something was up and I really should read the frelling manual. I need to investigate as to how many collectors I can have going - currently 2 so I'm wondering if 2 controllers = 4 collectors. Another thing to look into. Honestly, every time I get something sussed, another million questions arise. The joys of an ED pilot.
Keeps me on me toes and understanding the headology of the Creators.
I do have to so say though... this game is like chess; you can undestand the moves and what the aims are, but the true depth of the game is in its subtletty and diversity with unexpected nuances at every turn. Yeah, it's late and I'm getting all philosophical
As has been said the more, and bigger, collector limpet controllers the more you can have out there. My old surface mining Orca had 3 medium mining lasers and 6 active collector limpets going using 3 controllers, I might reengineer the Jackhammer and go double Painite hunting after I get back from the mini explore I am doing for the CG.
That is going well 4 sessions in and I have some first discoveries already, there might have been more but I am only FSSing the last system before I log off for the night.
So, I decided to take Lori Jameson up on her offer to come over for a visit. She contacted me about a month ago or so when I was out in Colonia. I guess she heard about my wicked combat skillz. I'm now rated Dangerous, so, you know, um...fear me! Yeah!
When I got there, she did in fact remember me. A little.
But I brought her a bunch of ale, and we spent quite a bit of time talking and walking along the paths inside her lovely arboreal dome:
I guess she had a good time with me, because the next time I visited, her response was a bit more welcoming!
I wonder if it was my people skills, or the fact that I brought her a bunch of work?
When I got there, she did in fact remember me. A little.
But I brought her a bunch of ale, and we spent quite a bit of time talking and walking along the paths inside her lovely arboreal dome:
I guess she had a good time with me, because the next time I visited, her response was a bit more welcoming!
I wonder if it was my people skills, or the fact that I brought her a bunch of work?
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Her bio domes are kinda awesome, aren't they?So, I decided to take Lori Jameson up on her offer to come over for a visit. She contacted me about a month ago or so when I was out in Colonia. I guess she heard about my wicked combat skillz. I'm now rated Dangerous, so, you know, um...fear me! Yeah!
When I got there, she did in fact remember me. A little.
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But I brought her a bunch of ale, and we spent quite a bit of time talking and walking along the paths inside her lovely arboreal dome:
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I guess she had a good time with me, because the next time I visited, her response was a bit more welcoming!
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I wonder if it was my people skills, or the fact that I brought her a bunch of work?
I'm still only a Master after my last clear save, because I spent a half a year on the other side of the galaxy, but I miss that place.
It really depends on what you're doing. 8 collectors are ideal for laser mining in a big ship so it reduces waiting time between asteroids.At least
Hint: larger controllers - more limpets
For deep core mining, though, I'm happy with just 2. Firstly I'm in a smaller ship and bigger collector controller would be a waste of space and secondly two are enough to pick the stuff that flies off while I'm scraping the insides with the blaster.
I'd be interested to hear from other miners, though - how many limpets do you take with you?
I mean, I hate wasting limpets so the ideal scenario is that you fill in the last bit of the cargo space with the last limpet active.
For me it's around 30-40% of cargo space? In my 160t Krait I'm usually bringing 50 limpets. Sometimes I have to throw some away, sometimes I have to scoop the last couple tonnes myself. What about you guys?
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