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I've never seen this before: a base with a huge appendage coming out of either side. I looks like a huge toothpick through an olive.

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Sometimes a station with noob-hammers is the destination of a commercial CG.
When that happens, there is usually another set of goods being delivered that do not appear on the CG description: Salt.

Noob-hammers are the best friends of auto dockers who do not drop out of SC in front of the station!
 
Sometimes a station with noob-hammers is the destination of a commercial CG.
When that happens, there is usually another set of goods being delivered that do not appear on the CG description: Salt.

Noob-hammers are the best friends of auto dockers who do not drop out of SC in front of the station!
Noob Hammers are the reason I don't engage ADC until I'm staring down the throat of the mail slot...well, that and flying sideways to get to that point...
 
I had to interupt my exploration trip, Carrier Router started to act weird, whatever destination I was giving it, the serie of waypoints all lead to the other side of the galaxy, somewhere in the Iznami sector, I was well into the Norma Expanse when this happened (Eodgovvy TG-S b45-12)...

So I used the Krait to do the nav and followed its waypoints, to be safe, I tried to back on a known route and Preia Phio LC-C d3 where I'm gonna mine some Platinium, I still have 20340 tons of Tritium in cargo...
 
I'm gonna mine some Platinium
Me too. Halloween style!

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I had to interupt my exploration trip, Carrier Router started to act weird, whatever destination I was giving it, the serie of waypoints all lead to the other side of the galaxy..

So I used the Krait to do the nav and followed its waypoints, to be safe, I came back on known route and Preia Phio LC-C d3 where I tried to mine some but something is wrong this is the 4th Platinium hotspot I prospect, I never saw ONE stone of it.
 
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I had to interupt my exploration trip, Carrier Router started to act weird, whatever destination I was giving it, the serie of waypoints all lead to the other side of the galaxy..

So I used the Krait to do the nav and followed its waypoints, to be safe, I came back on known route and Preia Phio LC-C d3 where I trierd to mine some but something is wonr, this is the 4th Lpatinium hotspot I prospect, I never saw ONE stone of it.
Have you tried it in Horizons v4.0?
 
I had to interupt my exploration trip, Carrier Router started to act weird, whatever destination I was giving it, the serie of waypoints all lead to the other side of the galaxy..

So I used the Krait to do the nav and followed its waypoints, to be safe, I came back on known route and Preia Phio LC-C d3 where I trierd to mine some but something is wonr, this is the 4th Lpatinium hotspot I prospect, I never saw ONE stone of it.
Are you using this.

If not, shame on you. You should be.

If you are, then make sure you're paying attention to the density column. Never mind in anything below 8.5. I personally never mine in anything below a 9. The field I'm in right now is 12.2.
 
Have you tried it in Horizons v4.0?
No I didn't download the alternative loader yet, it doesn't work in this version.

Are you using this.

If not, shame on you. You should be.

If you are, then make sure you're paying attention to the density column. Never mind in anything below 8.5. I personally never mine in anything below a 9. The field I'm in right now is 12.2.
Thanks for the tip, I was using another app...

Ok I did find a fix for the 4.0 instalation it's going to work now...
 
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I know I said this a few months ago, but I'm serious: they've nerfed mining. Pretty hard. Here's my results from the last 2 hours:

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When I first got my Cutter, that would take me about an hour on average. MAYBE an hour and 15 to 20 minutes at most. Now, it's taking two hours regardless of how good the field is.

I hit more streaks of asteroids without platinum than you can shake a stick at these days. That used to be a pretty rare occurrence.
 
At last I've arrived at Morgan's Rock Asteroid Base then, 4,402.19 LY from Sol. This is a screenshot I made earlier, before I went in and flogged everything.

After I'd done the Cartographics bit, then sold the Codex data to the station admin, I disembarked and headed over to the shopping mall to find the Vista shop to sell the exobiology stuff from all the planets I'd landed on. I'd expected to encounter several dodgy-looking types with labels pinned on the top of their heads, wanting me to go and assassinate some evil despot or other in a ship with no weapons, as usually happens with stations back in the bubble, but there were none.

After all that, I'm still Elite in exploration and Collector in exobiology, but when I leave here I'm planning to follow the nearby spiral arm east-north-east for quite a way to see what else I can find.

If anyone would like to find a whole bunch of unexplored systems, head out from the bubble about 1500 LY due east, then plot a course north-west-north to NGC 6188 Sector LC-V c2-28, where Morgan's Rock is. (y)

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I know I said this a few months ago, but I'm serious: they've nerfed mining. Pretty hard. Here's my results from the last 2 hours:

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When I first got my Cutter, that would take me about an hour on average. MAYBE an hour and 15 to 20 minutes at most. Now, it's taking two hours regardless of how good the field is.

I hit more streaks of asteroids without platinum than you can shake a stick at these days. That used to be a pretty rare occurrence.
That's my feeling as well, not that I've done much mining in the past but I'm surprised at the low number of rocks where we can find the material we're looking for...

On the other hand, doing trade loops, especially with a Cutter pays well enough, I had runs paying up to 90 million plus/hour, about nerfing, thepassenger missions from CEOS to Syrius Atmospheric seems to have taken a hit too, I got scanned not which didn't happen before and it cost missions and even fines and prison time.
 
That might be because you haven’t introduced them to the four hammer variety yet.
I think I'll go and try to find one! :D

Meanwhile...

This is the last gun I had to upgrade so I'm all done now. Apart from another two I need to build for CZ's - I made a small error on the Aphelion and Eclipse so I need to get these two and mod them to what I need. Another compelling reason to be able to move mods around weapons.

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