Oh yes, its vertical thrust is pretty poor.
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I'm still just getting started in foot missions. I'm trying to do a few where I kill scavengers.
What I typically do is land about 800 meters out from the base and get in the SRV and ride to the perimeter and shoot as many as the scavengers as I can with the SRV, then take care of the one or two that it can't get to on foot.
The Scarab does a good job at it, but every once in a while when the ships come in and drop off two or three more loads of scavengers I get into real trouble pretty quick. The shields go down fast and I have to run for my life.
I was thinking the Scorpion would be better suited for that sort of thing.
What I typically do is land about 800 meters out from the base and get in the SRV and ride to the perimeter and shoot as many as the scavengers as I can with the SRV, then take care of the one or two that it can't get to on foot.
The Scarab does a good job at it, but every once in a while when the ships come in and drop off two or three more loads of scavengers I get into real trouble pretty quick. The shields go down fast and I have to run for my life.
I was thinking the Scorpion would be better suited for that sort of thing.
Anyway, thanks to you and those who helped correcting my mistakes, the past two days have been rather productive:
I managed to potimize my Krait and my Carrier fuel cargo capacity, now another 205 million and it will be topped up, now I can go to Colonia and back on Carrier fuel cargo capacity alone, not depending on over priced Tritium to manage.
The trip from Wolf 363 my home base to Colonia requiers 5,808 tons of Tritium to achieve, I can store 25.000 tons in the Carrier's cargo...
Yes, the scorpion is more suited to that style of tactics but you still have to keep an eye to your shields...though they do last longer...
I have a Karl. I never talk to him.
Having to do 20 times the same trade loop to fill up your carrier is still better than...
Being in a queue on an electric car, half a mile from the station with the kids screaming in the back seat, the guy behind reaching for his M8879 Shotgun because he is upset you didn't go a further 30 ft, the guy at the plug having to push his 3 tons vehicle because his Credit Card have been declined, the wife in panic on the phone...
Anyway, better be patient and fill up before leaving with 215% of the fuel needed to go to Colonia and back than having to sell your ships to pay for Tritium at an horrific rate like I did last time, it cost me more hard work to get them back than what I'm doing now...
Being in a queue on an electric car, half a mile from the station with the kids screaming in the back seat, the guy behind reaching for his M8879 Shotgun because he is upset you didn't go a further 30 ft, the guy at the plug having to push his 3 tons vehicle because his Credit Card have been declined, the wife in panic on the phone...
Anyway, better be patient and fill up before leaving with 215% of the fuel needed to go to Colonia and back than having to sell your ships to pay for Tritium at an horrific rate like I did last time, it cost me more hard work to get them back than what I'm doing now...
Thank you for a lesson I did not have to learn the hard way.
Amen, brother. Amen.Thank you for a lesson I did not have to learn the hard way.
Yeah, I think we're more than a few to have been through this experience, I wish developers would remediate to this situation and give is a proper Tritium source at market price, this would attract miners too.Thank you for a lesson I did not have to learn the hard way.
btw the 20 loops are only for the final 35,314 tons to reach 250.000.
5 Loops, coffee, repeat.
I'm not planning to go to Colonia, instead I'll start with the Norma Expanse, I know there are a lot of good stuff to discover there.
Now I'm thinking about different technics for mining (I'm open to suggestions), like deep core, to replace the used Tritium by a material that will help lowering the cost of the travel, combined with U.C datas, I just sold for 1.6 million just honking systems around while trading, going back to Carrier, visiting engineers etc...
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I would probably mine Tritium rather than do that...
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But then again, I LIKE laser mining...
Well, I don't see myself mining 35,314 tons of it... Seriously, buy myself a few jumps to get out of trouble, OK but this quantity would take forever to mine, the tradeloop I'm using now pays <> 95,395,983 Cr, about 3/4 hours work...I would probably mine Tritium rather than do that...
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But then again, I LIKE laser mining...
Since you're into mining what would be your suggestion for making money mining with a strong ship?
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Oh yeah, I would only mine as much as I absolutely needed to, then mine Platinum in mass quantities and sell that to fund my Tritium buy order and let the player economy do the rest.
Usually there is a friend around who wants to make some cash so I pay them to fill my carrier...
Well, look what the cat dragged in, where you been hiding?
Harmless ones start at 2% share.
Platinium sounds good I'll look inot it. Cheers!
Hiding??? In plain sight of course...wouldn't dream of doing it any other way...
But honestly, I've been resting my arm so I can stop playing left handed with the mouse and get back to using the mouse and joystick right-handed like I should be. Also cutting down on the typing...
Still out exploring, but only once or twice per week...
Shhhh, I'm looking for brain tress and undiscovered guardian ruins.
2 months back, I found a nice Platinum hotspot (in an inner metallic ring) about 6500 LY out from Sol. I worked it for about a 3 to 4 weeks
In my T9 laser miner, I could fill up (576 tons) of Platinum, Osmium, Gold, Palladium and Painite (from highest concentration to lowest) in about 2 to 2.5 hours. I did that until I had over 4000 platinum in the carrier (about 9 or 10 mining trips total switching off with exploration and exobiology after every two or three mining trips) and then went back to the bubble to sell it.
The platinum alone was worth about 1.4 Bil. I ended up giving a combined 750 tons of Platinum and Palladium to a friend just to get it off my carrier...by that time I was sick of hauling...I also paid him 200% of galactic average to fill my Tritium buy order, threw another billion into the carrier account and kept almost a billion to have on hand in my personal account, which is about where it was before I started selling stuff.
Edit 20221026 - Replaced Monazite with Painite as Monazite was incorrect.
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